Portraits of Chavez, Bolivar and Maduro in Venezuela -- Guaiquerí, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Celina della Croce U.S. President Donald Trump has not shied away from admitting his thirst for Venezuelan oil. On 16 December 2025, in the leadup to the 3 January bombing of Caracas and kidnapping of the country’s president and first lady, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, he claimed ownership over Venezuela resources, stating that “America will not… allow a hostile regime to tak

On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation Cuba's leaders head a traditional Torchlight March of tens-of-thousands in Havana in homage to National Hero José Martí, on the 173rd anniversary of his birth, January 27, 2026 -- image via X By Manolo De Los Santos, People's Dispatch In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a genera

We don’t need better training for the men who killed these activists. We need a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct US democracy. Memorial at the site of Alex Pretti's death -- Darth Stabro, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By William J. Barber II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove From 1920 until 1938, a flag on Fifth Avenue in New York City proclaimed an uncomfortable reality to passers-by on New York’s busy streets: “A man was lynched yesterday.” In the South, where Jim Crow

ICE is murdering citizens because we allowed them to abuse immigrants first. How many more need to die before ICE is held accountable? Sign at a NYC rally in the wake of the murder of Renee Good -- SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Farrah Hassen On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agen