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Colombia’s Left After The 2026 Election

July 10, 2026 Teri Mattson, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
Within hours of Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff, major international news organizations declared the country’s conservative candidate the victor. Political commentators across the hemisphere described the result as another blow to Latin America’s progressive “Pink Tide” and another victory for the global right. Yet on the streets of Bogotá, where international election observers continued watching the vote count unfold, the mood was markedly different. The official scrutiny process was still underway. Progressive candidate Iván Cepeda had not yet conceded.

Right Wing Backlash To Pink Tide Intensifies In Latin America

June 29, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , ,
The United States and its allies have escalated their war on Latin America - killing hundreds of fisher people with impunity, invading and kidnapping the President and First Lady in Venezuela, tightening economic blockades, and manipulating elections. Clearing the FOG speaks with Claudia O'Brien-Moscoso of the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team about recent right wing gains in countries such as Colombia, Peru and other countries in retaliation to the popular gains of the Pink Tide and how social movements are fighting back. O'Brien-Moscoso describes the international campaign to build a Zone of Peace in Our Americas.

US Southcom Extrajudicial Killings Reach 209, Including Abandoned Survivors

June 23, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
The lethal maritime campaign conducted by the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) continues to claim lives in Latin American and Caribbean waters, with the death toll now totaling 209. Since September 2025, the US has carried out 63 military strikes against small boats under the guise of counter-narcotics operations as part of Operation Southern Spear. International legal experts and analysts still condemn the policy as a systematic campaign of extrajudicial killings. The latest escalation features consecutive operations carried out in June 2026, highlighting the reckless and brutal nature of US imperialist action.

Why Bolivia Is Exploding

June 18, 2026 Teri Mattson, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
As road blockades spread across Bolivia and labor unions bring major transportation routes to a standstill, the country’s political crisis has become impossible to ignore. Fuel shortages have disrupted daily life. Supply chains have been strained. Protesters have erected more than one hundred blockades across the country, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz less than a year after he took office. At first glance, the unrest appears to be another chapter in Latin America’s long history of economic turmoil and political instability.

Colombia: An Ethical Revolution (With A Grassroots Focus)

June 3, 2026 David Escobar, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Colombia is approaching the most important election on the continent—and possibly on the planet. Not because Bogotá will decide merely the administrative fate of a peripheral state, but because something far more profound is at stake in Colombia: the possibility that Latin America will continue and deepen the historic rupture that began with Gustavo Petro’s government in the face of the old order of the armed oligarchic estate as a form of government. While Europe is consumed by its liberal exhaustion and the United States is once again flirting with mass fascism, the Latin American continent is once again becoming the decisive laboratory of global politics.

‘Hondurasgate’: A Warning For Latin America

May 24, 2026 John Perry and Roger D. Harris, LA Progressive. , , ,
Governance in Honduras shifted sharply to the extreme right within months of National Party’s Nasry Asfura taking office on January 27, succeeding the Libre party’s progressive Xiomara Castro. In November 30 elections, the National Party was trailing a poor third before Trump threatened to end all aid to Honduras unless Asfura won. Even then, Asfura had only a wafer-thin plurality, which might well have disappeared had the electoral council not broken its mandate by halting the count before all the votes had been tallied.

Bolivia Strike Grows; Government Hits Labor Leader With Terrorism Charge

May 20, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. , , , , ,
On May 19, Bolivia’s government charged the head of the country’s main labor federation with terrorism. The charge is aimed not only at one leader. It is aimed at workers, Indigenous Peoples and poor communities — including miners, teachers, transport workers and health workers — who have entered an indefinite general strike against President Rodrigo Paz. Attorney General Roger Mariaca confirmed that Mario Argollo, executive secretary of the Bolivian Workers Central (COB), is being prosecuted for alleged public incitement to commit crimes and terrorism.

Exaggerated Claims About Latino Migration To US By White Nationalists

April 29, 2026 John Perry, Popular Resistance. , , ,
In the run-up to the 2024 election, Donald Trump promised “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” A year later, it was a promise he claimed to have kept. But exactly who are the “illegals”? Loose definitions and manipulated statistics tell a very misleading story about migrants from Latin America. Earlier this year, a chart appeared on social media sites like X claiming that during President Biden's four years in office, 8% of Nicaragua's population entered the US illegally. The chart displayed comparable percentages for five other Latin American countries — Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Venezuela and Guatemala.

The Far Right Goes To War Against Women

March 13, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , ,
Across Latin America, a strange war has been declared. It is fought not only in parliaments and courts but in classrooms, kitchens, churches, and the restless spaces of the internet. Its targets are women, queer and trans people, and the movements that insist life can be lived differently. The contemporary far right of a special type claims to defend the patriarchal family, morality, and tradition. But beneath these words lies another project: the restoration of old hierarchies at a moment when the world that sustained them is trembling. For decades, feminist movements have unsettled the foundations of power in Latin America.

Trump’s New Tool For Hemispheric Military Coordination

March 11, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
This past weekend, the Trump administration secured an alliance with its partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. The so-called “Shield of the Americas” is an alliance between 13 countries in the Americas to undertake intelligence, security, and even military actions aimed at preserving US hegemony, which could be threatened by other world powers. The creation of the alliance was agreed upon during the “Shield of the Americas” Summit held this past weekend in Doral, Florida. Regarding the alliance, the US State Department declared: “This historic coalition of nations will work together to advance strategies that stop foreign interference in our hemisphere, criminal and narco-terrorist gangs and cartels, and illegal and mass immigration.”

Cuban President Denounces ‘Small Reactionary And Neocolonial Summit’

March 9, 2026 Resumen English. , , , ,
“An attack on the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, an attack on the aspirations for regional integration, and a manifestation of the willingness to subordinate oneself to the interests of the powerful neighbor to the north under the precepts of the Monroe Doctrine.” The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, denounced on his X account the Shield of the Americas summit, which is being held under the auspices of the US president.

Trump’s Allies To Gather In Miami For ‘Shield Of The Americas’ Summit

March 6, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , , ,
As the United States and Israel wage war against the peoples of Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and the peoples of the region, the Trump administration seeks to secure its dominance in the Americas. On March 7 in Doral, Florida (part of the Miami metropolitan area), the Trump administration will host a summit entitled “Shield of the Americas”. Although its organizers claim that the summit seeks to strengthen ties between the US and the rest of the countries in the region, it appears that powerful countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil will not be in attendance. The participation of Venezuela, Uruguay, Guatemala, and Nicaragua has also not been confirmed.

The Caribbean People’s Debt To Cuba

February 27, 2026 Tamanisha J. John and Kevin Edmonds, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
What we are seeing across the Caribbean in 2025-2026 is a total absence of political and moral leadership, specifically in regards to the failure of elected officials and prominent regional organizations like the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to speak out against the criminal blockade and embargo of Cuba, and the imperialist attacks against Venezuela – which includes the violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty that resulted in the kidnapping of the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and First Lady, Cilia Flores by the United States (US). 

Laura Dogu And Washington’s Regime-Change Playbook

February 13, 2026 Roger D. Harris and John Perry, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and political volatility.” What the LA Times fails to add is that it was precisely Dogu’s job to create crisis and volatility in both countries. In Latin America she is widely regarded, for good reason, as the “US ambassador of interventions and coups.” The LA Times appears entirely relaxed about a US diplomat’s job being to meddle in the internal politics of a country whose president the US has just kidnapped in an operation resulting in the murder over 100 people and involving the bombing of key public buildings and health facilities.

Latin America Pushes Back Against US Intervention

January 31, 2026 Medea Benjamin, Scheer Post. , , , ,
When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá on January 24-25 with about 90 delegates from 20 countries, where speaker after speaker denounced the open revival of this doctrine — and its companion, the so-called Trump Corollary or “Donroe Doctrine” based on raw coercion— as a blatant, illegal, and reprehensible interference in their internal affairs.
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