Tag: South America

Seven years ago, then U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard wrote on Twitter: "The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.  We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders—so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” Now, as Director of National Intelligence in...
Like most Americans I was “shocked but not surprised,” as the saying goes, by the Trump administration’s decision to snatch Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his bed and render him to New York to face international narcotics trafficking charges. Whether Maduro has committed any crime or...
The financial elite the CIA serves is now salivating over the prospects of U.S. corporations retaking control of Venezuela’s oil industry The Trump administration welcomed the New Year by ordering a brazen Special Forces raid into Venezuela that resulted in the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was...
Caracas: Saturday, January 3rd: The situation in Venezuela is certainly not easy; we are under attack. And this is a higher stage of that war. The Venezuelan government was warned and prepared for this—that is, there was an awareness that this would happen at some point. What was not...
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, I filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of the family of Alejandro Carranza—a Colombian fisherman who went out in his boat on the Caribbean Sea, attempting to fish for marlin and tuna, but who never came home....
The first round of Chile’s presidential election determined that center-left government candidate Jeannette Jara and far-right opposition leader José Antonio Kast will face off in the December 14 runoff. Although Jara won the first round with 26.75%—3,446,854 votes—against Kast’s 23.96%—3,086,963 votes—everything suggests that the right will win the second...
At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too”—signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent...
He who was born, was born / He who wasn’t born, won’t be born / Get out the way of the bullet train or else you might get torn.—“He Who Was Born, Was Born” by MC G3 Will There Be “Peace, Liberty, And Justice” With Whatever Comes After Brazil? Recorded circa...
The large-scale operation in Rio de Janeiro carried out on October 28, which has already left at least 121 people dead and once again laid bare the logic of war applied to poverty, should not be understood solely as a local public-security issue. It is part of a global control...
Far-right leader Javier Milei won Argentina’s mid-term legislative elections, strengthening his position for the final two years of his government. President Milei has already announced that he will send regressive and far-reaching bills to Congress: labor, tax and pension reforms. All three sets of bills share the same goal: favoring...