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Manolo De Los Santos

Manolo De Los Santos is the co-executive director of the People’s Forum and is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He co-edited, most recently, Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War (LeftWord Books/1804 Books, 2020) and Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro (LeftWord Books/1804 Books, 2021). He is a co-coordinator of the People’s Summit for Democracy.

    November 8, 2026
    Sri Lanka

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    A dispute has emerged between Sri Lanka’s electricity regulator and the National System Operator (NSO) over a proposed tariff increase for the final quarter of 2026, with the NSO insisting that improved

    Sri Lanka

    Port City Colombo Attracts 68 New Strategic Businesses with $167 Million in Investment Commitments

    Port City Colombo has attracted 68 new businesses designated as secondary Businesses of Strategic Importance (BSIs), with declared five-year investment commitments totalling approximately US$166.87 million, according to a technical analysis of the latest gazette disclosures. The companies include entities incorporated

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    Sri Lankan Opposition Accuses President of Diverting Attention from Controversial Crime Bill Provisions

    Judiciary/Sri Lanka

    The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) has accused President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of drawing public attention to selected provisions of the proposed Prevention of Organised

    Sri Lanka Moves to Establish Trade Negotiation Committee Ahead of New FTA Talks

    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka is moving to establish a National Trade Negotiation Committee to prepare the groundwork for prospective Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, with preliminary

    Why Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands

    March 8, 2026
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    The early morning hours of January 3, 2026, marked an inflection point in Venezuela and Latin America’s centuries-long struggle for self-determination and independence. Operation Absolute Resolve, ordered by the Trump administration, constituted

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    Cuba: Washington’s 66-Year War Without End

    March 1, 2026
    Columns/Geopolitics

    On the morning of February 25, 2026, Cuban authorities thwarted yet another terrorist attack one mile off the country’s northern coast. When it was over, four men lay dead, six more were

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    People in the US go hungry as Trump spends millions to invade Venezuela

    November 2, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched beyond 30 days and now, the food security

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    Sanctioned and Silenced: Washington’s Playbook

    October 22, 2025
    Diplomacy/Geopolitics

    Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly confirmed that he authorized the CIA to carry out covert action against the country. These

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    Trump’s Venezuela Gamble: Iraq War 2.0

    October 17, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on drugs,” the United States is actively executing a

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    A fugitive’s freedom: Assata Shakur’s exile in Cuba

    October 1, 2025
    Cuba/World

    The news of Assata Shakur’s death in Havana, Cuba, on September 26, was met with a deep sense of shared loss among revolutionaries and activists worldwide. Shortly after, at a gathering in

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    Castro, Malcolm, and Palestine

    September 19, 2025
    Geopolitics/History

    In September 1960, in the heart of Black America, Harlem’s Hotel Theresa became the stage for one of the world’s most monumental encounters. When Malcolm X and Fidel Castro met there 65

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    Trump’s Smokescreen on Venezuela: Exposing the “Narco-State” Accusation

    August 22, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    The US government has revived its campaign to label Venezuela a “narco-state”, accusing its top leadership of drug trafficking and slapping hefty bounties on their heads for capture. This campaign, which only

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    Trump and Rubio Tighten the Noose on Cuba

    June 8, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    Cuba is once again facing a severe, multi-faceted crisis, not due to the hurricanes that pummel through the Caribbean every year, but from the relentless and suffocating pressure exerted by its powerful neighbour to the

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    Cuba Reaffirms Socialism While It Reckons With Its Private Sector

    July 27, 2023
    Cuba

    Seventy years have passed since Fidel Castro and a daring group of young Cubans launched an assault on the Moncada Barracks in eastern Cuba, aiming to topple the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Despite

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    U.S. Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba

    June 11, 2023
    China/Cuba

    On June 8, the U.S. media added to its long storybook of tales to scare people away from normal relations with Cuba. The Wall Street Journal published an article on that day claiming that

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    Young People From the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege

    April 27, 2023
    Business/Columns

    It’s a hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana, and the air sticks to the skin. You can hear the fluttering of paper as people fan themselves,

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    Peru’s Oligarchy Overthrows President Castillo

    December 9, 2022
    Peru

    June 6, 2021, was a day which shocked many in Peru’s oligarchy. Pedro Castillo Terrones, a rural schoolteacher who had never before been elected to office, won the second round of the

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    Cuba Goes on a Diplomatic Tour in an Increasingly Multipolar World

    December 3, 2022
    Cuba

    On November 27 morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, walked into a voting station in the Playa neighborhood to vote in Cuba’s municipal elections. He had landed in Havana an hour earlier from an intense tour of

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    How Cuba Is Dealing With the Devastation of Hurricane Ian

    October 5, 2022
    Cuba

    On September 27, 2022, a tropical cyclone—Hurricane Ian—struck Cuba’s western province of Pinar del Río. Sustained winds of around 125 miles per hour lingered over Cuba for more than eight hours, bringing

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