Maduro Assumes a Third Term: Prospects and Problematics for Venezuela
From its inception with the election of Huge Chávez in 1998, the US has interfered in and attempted to overthrow by extra-legal means Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.
Washington’s “Democracy Promotion” Fails Spectacularly in Venezuela
The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. government to attempts to restore democracy suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What it considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown US security asset Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president!
Latin America and Caribbean Year 2022 in Review
The neoliberal model for regional development has been discredited in Latin America and the Caribbean. While progressive movements have come to power in many countries, they are finding it is not easy to solve the problems that they protested against, which brought them to power.
2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again
The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 with major popular electoral victories in Chile, Honduras, and Peru.
The Case of Alex Saab vs. The Empire
US efforts to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the USA raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions.
The Current Impasse in Belarus and the Peace Alternative
The US must stop fishing in troubled waters and let the people of Belarus decide. They have the power and don’t need to be told what democracy looks like.