Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a five-percentage-point lead over far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro six days before the first round of the presidential election, according to a Quaest voting-intention
Left-wing candidates have failed to win a single presidential election in the region this year, in what some analysts are calling a “blue tide,” reversing the “pink tide” that swept Latin America
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Oil tanker loading in Venezuela fell sharply on Monday, with most vessels shifting cargoes only between domestic ports, after the United States moved against additional ships linked to Venezuelan crude exports and
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a stark warning to regional and global leaders on December 22, accusing the United States of an aggressive military escalation that he said threatens Venezuela, the wider
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Cuba’s deepening humanitarian and economic crisis is poised to worsen as the United States escalates pressure on Venezuela, the island’s most critical energy lifeline. With Venezuelan oil exports increasingly disrupted by US
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned on Saturday that any armed intervention in Venezuela would amount to a humanitarian catastrophe, as tensions rise following new measures by the United States
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In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over a 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more
More In jubilation, when news reached him from Lima that arch-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast had emerged victorious in Chile’s presidential election, Argentina’s right wing president Javier Milei posted a map of South
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The disappointment felt by many left-wing supporters in Latin America has been renewed with the recent democratic victory of the far right in Chile. This sentiment is particularly poignant as it reflects
More I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the newly appointed Nobel Peace Prize winner, said at a press
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What began as an aggressive plan to confront Mexican drug cartels has transformed into a far-reaching and lethal military campaign in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific, driven in large part by
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On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by 58.16 percent to 41.84 percent.
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Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is grappling with a growing backlog of unsold crude, widening price discounts and mounting pressure from customers after the United States seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan
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José A. Kast’s resounding victory in the runoff election is bound to have a profound influence on Chile. A solid, neo-fascist, extreme right-wing force consolidated as a result of the convergence of
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The election of Jose Antonio Kast as Chile’s president on December 14, 2025, marks a critical inflection point in Latin America’s political trajectory and reflects a wider global shift toward far-right and
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution was a watershed moment in the history of the class struggle. It was a ray of light in the dark years following the collapse of Stalinism. Long before the
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