(2026-01-02). Big Daddy Trump Hustling While Triggering Venezuela War. globalresearch.ca While Trump humbly boasts about what a great dad he was because he said no to drugs and alcohol, it appears the coup makers are intending a massive strike inside Venezuela. | The 'peacemaker' is angling to once again bomb a …
(2026-01-02). Venezuela has detained several Americans. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 02 (MNA) — Venezuelan security forces have detained at least five Americans in recent months as the US has built a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a US official familiar with the matter told CNN.
(2026-01-02). Report: Russia Asks US To Stop Chasing Tanker It Attempted To Seize Near Venezuela. news.antiwar.com Russia has made a formal request to the US to stop chasing the Bella 1, an oil tanker the US attempted to seize off the coast of Venezuela and has been pursuing in the Atlantic Ocean since December 21, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The report said that as the ship had been …
(2026-01-02). Maduro says open to US talks on drug trafficking. newarab.com 
Maduro, in an interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet, reiterated that the US wants to force a government ch…
(2026-01-02). China / United States — Latin America And The Caribbean. popularresistance.org As if by fate and unplanned twists of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction that the Western Hemisphere is Washington's property, thus reviving the Monroe Doctrine and its Trump corollary for the 21st century, the government of the People's Republic of China released its third document on its foreign policy toward the region. | In 2008, the Chinese government published the first Document on China's Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean, in which it set out the objective of establishing a China-LAC Compre…
(2026-01-01). US Imposes More Venezuela Oil Sanctions on Four Companies and Four Tankers. news.antiwar.com The US Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions on four companies and their associated oil tankers for allegedly transporting Venezuelan oil as the Trump administration seeks to escalate its pressure on the country. The new sanctions come after the US seized two tankers off the coast of Venezuela that were carrying Venezuelan oil, cargo that …
(2026-01-01). El ICAP villaclareño celebra los 65 años de la institución. radiohc.cu El Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos celebra su aniversario 65 con el orgullo de los hombres y mujeres de la institución y amigos del planeta de haber trabajado arduamente en la solidaridad, esa que irradia la isla al mundo, y la que recibe desde todas las latitudes, sembrando amor y esperanza, en defensa de las causas justas. | El apoyo a pueblos hermanos como Viet Nam, Nicaragua, y ahora mismo, el abrazo a la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y a Palestina, son signos de una institución que reconoce desde su nacimiento, junto con nuestro Apóstol José Martí, que "Patria es Humanidad". | De igual maner…
(2026-01-01). Peoples Organization for Progress: Stop Trump's Illegal US Attacks on Venezuela Press Event Outside Newark Fed Building Dec 30. fightbackbetter.com 
On Tuesday, December 30 outside the Federal Building in Downtown Newark, NJ, the Peoples Organization for Progress and allied organizations…
(2026-01-01). The Reactionary Backwash: Year 2025 in Review for Latin America and the Caribbean. counterpunch.org 
2025 saw progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) delegitimized and displaced. Right-wing forces have seized on drug-related crises to attack the so-called Pink Tide governments, driving a reactionary backwash and putting new, neoliberal administrations in power. The irony is that the rise in drug use and crime is driven by neoliberalism's failure