José Antonio Kast campaigning in Chile in October -- Equipo Kast, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region. It would be easy to say that this is the impact of Donald Trump’s own brand of neo-fascism, but this is not true. Th

Simón Bolívar International Airport By Ricardo Vaz Multiple international airlines have suspended flights to and from Caracas amidst a heightened US military presence in the Caribbean, after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issuance of a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Friday. Iberia (Spain), TAP (Portugal), LATAM (Chile), Avianca (Colombia) and Turkish Airlines (Turkey) were among the companies to cancel upcoming flights connecting the Venezuelan capital to internation

Com a suspensão do diálogo entre os EUA e a Venezuela, o avistamento de bombardeiros B-52 dos EUA no espaço aéreo venezuelano e os novos ataques letais dos EUA no Caribe, os EUA parecem estar acelerando sua marcha rumo à guerra com a Venezuela. Donald Trump walks alongside the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on October 5, 2025 -- public domain image Via Manolo De Los Santos O clima no Caribe torna-se cada vez mais tenso à medida que os Estados Unidos intensificam suas am

Samuel Moncada speaks at the UN -- image via video screenshot By Carlos Ron On Friday, 10 October 2025, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations,  Samuel Moncada , delivered a serious and urgent warning during an emergency session of the Security Council, asserting that Venezuela’s peace and security —and that of the entire region— is under imminent  threat  of military aggression by the United States. The War on Drugs Pretext Hostility from Washington towar

With the suspension of dialogue between the US and Venezuela, the sighting of US B-52 bombers in Venezuelan airspace, and the further lethal US strikes in the Caribbean, the US seems to be accelerating its drive towards war with Venezuela Trump aboard the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Manolo De Los Santos The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the dece

Donald Trump is striving to leave his doctrine as his legacy to the world, which, as a guiding principle, seeks to reposition the United States as the holder of absolute military power and to disparage multilateralism. This is because we are no longer dealing with the world’s leading economic power, and this proportionally affects its military capacity. Trump at the UN, September 23, 2025 -- public domain image By Carmen Navas Reyes From Monroe to Trump, Unilateralism The fam

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