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From blockade to suffocation: the United States' war against Cuba enters its most brutal phase

5 min read MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS 0 comments

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a generator at a distant hospital and the murmur of a family gathered by candlelight. For them, “U.S. national security” is not an abstract concept debated on American cable news; it is the tangible reality of a 20-hour blackout, the smell of spoiled food, and the fear for a child’s refrigerated medication. This is the face of a policy that the U.S. government calls a response to an “extraordinary threat.”

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With Nicolás Maduro on the eve of his kidnapping

8 min read IGNACIO RAMONET 0 comments

IGNACIO RAMONET
It was a month ago. On the night of January 2-3, 2026. It was a few minutes before 2:00 a.m. on that sinister Saturday… We were shocked by the brutality of the attack under the full moon. The violence of the successive explosions. The columns of dark smoke. The intensity of the flames illuminating a stunned, sleepless, and silent Caracas. And then, like a punch to the gut, the news of the kidnapping…

Everything seemed incredible to me. Less than two days earlier, I had been with President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. For the tenth time in a row, the president had agreed to grant me the "New Year's interview." We had recorded it late in the afternoon of December 31st, as night began to fall over Venezuela's beautiful capital and the year 2025 drew to a close.

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Watershed

4 min read FARRUCO SESTO

FARRUCO SESTO
I want to begin this note by paying a small personal tribute to my president Nicolás Maduro Moros, who is the president of all Venezuelans, and in whom I recognize, in addition to being a good man, a great revolutionary.

We saw Nicolás in some images and videos that surfaced, and in all of them he appears unharmed, surrounded by his kidnappers, with great dignity, even managing to send his people the message that “we will win” by gesturing with his hands. And perhaps, in passing, a message to the world as well.

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The Venezuelan revolution is still standing: dismantling Trump's psychological operation

10 min read MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS 0 comments

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
Following the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate disinformation campaign has been carried out to sow doubts about the survival of the country's revolution.

The execution of “Operation Absolute Resolve” by the United States, a targeted bombing and the illegal kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, has created a moment of profound crisis, but also of profound clarity.

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Why did Trump send his warships to Venezuela?

5 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

VIJAY PRASHAD
Since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has tried to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, the selection of a replacement president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing multiple sanctions, sabotaging the electrical grid, sending mercenaries, and attempting to assassinate its leaders.

If you can think of any method to overthrow a government, chances are the United States has tried it against Venezuela.

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Nelson Hadad: Netanyahu plans to annex Palestine to Greater Israel

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Nelson Hadad is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. He served as Chile's ambassador to Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. At the end of July, in response to the crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip, he decided to draft a letter requesting Israel's expulsion from the UN. We spoke with him about the conflict in the Middle East.

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A Nobel Prize winner in war uniform

3 min read DANIEL JADUE 0 comments

DANIEL JADUE
When the Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, it chose to call "peace" what, in the South, we know as intervention and tutelage. It awarded it to a person who for years has placed herself at the disposal of a foreign power to promote a coup d'état in her own country. Someone who has even called, even in international forums, for foreign military intervention in the genocidal State of Israel, and who, in the midst of the devastation of Gaza, defends the Zionist entity with the grammar of "self-defense."

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Fernando Molina: "The outlook for Bolivia's second round is highly uncertain."

6 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
The surprise results of the first round of Bolivia's presidential elections, in which the Rodrigo Paz/Edman Lara ticket (32,1%) emerged victorious, raises expectations for the runoff on October 19. While the fragmentation of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), which governed the country for nearly 20 years, suggested a right-wing victory, the emergence of the Paz/Lara duo speaks otherwise. Paz will face former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga (26,8%) in a runoff election.

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From defeat to disintegration

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EMMANUEL TODD
Less than two years after the French publication of The Defeat of the West, in January 2024, the book's main predictions have come true. Russia has withstood the military and economic impact. The US military industry is exhausted. European economies and societies are on the verge of implosion. Even before the Ukrainian army collapses, the next stage of the West's disintegration has been reached.

I have always been hostile to the Russophobic policies of the United States and Europe, but as a Westerner committed to liberal democracy, a Frenchman trained in research in England, and the son of a mother who took refuge in the United States during World War II, I am appalled by the consequences for us Westerners of the unintelligent war waged against Russia.

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Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of people are dying of hunger.

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

VIJAY PRASHAD
I've written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report is based on four points:
1. The number of people suffering from hunger is higher now than last year.
2. The amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last year.
3. There is enough food to feed the entire world's population, and more.
4. How do we explain why there are people who suffer from hunger?

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Asia China Latin America Principal2 

The Belt and Road Initiative diversifies the paths of cooperation with CELAC

5 min read Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno 0 comments

Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno
During the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC Forum, held on May 13, 2025, in Beijing, Latin American governments articulated a new vision for engagement with China. The future of the BRI in the region will depend not only on Chinese financing and technical expertise, but also on the capacity of Latin American countries to design inclusive development strategies and build effective institutional frameworks. The challenge now is to move from diplomatic declarations to transformative action, and turn the partnership into shared prosperity.

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