Issue Jan 14-20 2026: Cuba has spent the last five years enmeshed in a serious economic crisis with slowing growth and high inflation, a lack of basic goods, prolonged daily blackouts, widespread immiseration, and mass emigration. Hopes of improvement are dim.

Issue Jan 07-13 2026: The recent U.S. military intervention in Venezuela sets a new precedent for relations between the United States and Latin America and marks a profound change for the elites governing the continent. Territorial interventionism, as Trump has made clear, is back on the table, presenting a huge challenge for the countries in

Issue Jan 07-13 2026: Washington hardened its stance against Havana after its successful “snatch and grab” operation abroad. The shift suggests increased pressure if the island government does not change its political course.

Issue Jan 07-13 2026: Colombian President Gustavo Petro and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in their recent call to carry out “joint actions” against the paramilitary National Liberation Army (ELN) to prevent it from using Venezuela as a rear base.

Issue Jan 01-06 2026: During a meeting convened twelve hours after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that included members of the Sandinista Front together with senior government, army, and police officials, “co-president” and spokesperson for the Nicaraguan regime, Rosario Murillo, ordered all territorial organization related to the party to remain on “alert” and

Issue Jan 01-06 2026: The United States State Department has added Venezuela and Cuba to a list of 25 new countries whose citizens must deposit down payments of up to US $15,000 upon requesting an entry visa to the country. The new policy will take effect on January 21 and includes such nations as Algeria,

Issue Jan 01-06 2026: Three heads of state from Latin America have been tried in U.S. federal courts for drug trafficking and corruption; their cases set a precedent for understanding the process that the Venezuelan president will face.

–Researched and Written by Lenora Williams—Issue Dec 01-31 2025: In September 2025, the United States began carrying out attacks against ships in Caribbean waters that were allegedly smuggling drugs. The United States justified its naval actions as preventing narco-terrorism. However, recent headlines show that the focus of the United States’ naval operations has expanded. The

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Immigrant families in the United States face the prospect of a sad Christmas, separated from their families and hoping to remain “invisible” so that ICE agents do not arrest them under the new migratory policy of Donald Trump. Over 220,000 migrants have been arrested by ICE since Trump returned to the

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: The United States “Secretary of War,” Pete Hegseth, continues to insist that the Monroe Doctrine remains official policy, prohibiting Europe from installing new colonies in America and making the United States, by its own lights, the official hegemon in the Western hemisphere.