In the first of our two-part interview, Federico Fuentes spoke to Malfred Gerig, a sociologist and author from the Central University of Venezuela, to discuss how the US government’s military assault on Venezuela was able to occur, US aims in Venezuela and the region and the role of Venezuela’s right-wing opposition.
The United States administration’s double standards towards Venezuela have seen it move between buying oil from Venezuela to claiming the country’s state leaders are part of a criminal drug cartel to justify a military deployment and eventual attack, writes Luís Bonilla-Molina.
The Socialist Alliance says the Australian government must call on the United States to stop its military intimidation and threats of intervention in Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico, and immediately withdraw its military deployment throughout the region.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 23, calling for an international intervention to stop the genocide in Palestine and slamming the actions of the Donald Trump administration, reports Pablo Meriguet.
United States forces launched strikes on two small vessels in the Caribbean, claiming they were transporting drugs. US officials have warned more strikes could come, including possibly on foreign soil. In the second of our two-part series, Green Left’s Kerry Smith speaks to Federico Fuentes about the US threat in the Caribbean and how the solidarity movement should respond.
Against the United States government’s attacks on immigrants and countries in the region, representatives of Latin America’s trade unions, social movements and progressive parties will meet in Mexico City this month. Federico Fuentes spoke to conference organisers.
Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, told the Hague Group conference that it “has the potential to signal not just a coalition, but a new moral centre in world politics”, reports Ben Radford.
As Israel’s genocide against Palestinians continues, protesters from across the country converged in Canberra, before the new parliament opened, to demand Labor sanction Israel. Pip Hinman and Isaac Nellist report.
Workers across Colombia went on strike to defend President Gustavo Petro’s proposed labour reforms against right-wing opposition obstruction in Congress, reports Ben Radford.
Incumbent president Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third term on January 10, following Venezuela’s disputed July 28 elections, reports Federico Fuentes.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemned the Turkish drone strikes that killed Kurdish journalists Cîhan Bilgin and Nazım Daştan near Kobanê in northern Syria, reports Medya News.
Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo has described rich countries’ plans to expand fossil fuels as a “death sentence” for his country. Zara Lomas looks at Pacific Island states’ push for a international treaty to phase out fossil fuels.
