Latin America

Daniel Ortega is No Bukele

June 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Socialism

by Jill Clark-Gollub, published on Black Agenda Report, June 11, 2025 Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances. Opposition media from both Nicaragua and El Salvador, along with the Washington Post, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, all vilify Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by equating him with[…]

The Camouflaged U.S. Invasion of Panama

May 13, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Imperialism, Panama, U.S. Hegemony

by Gary Wilson, published on Resumen English, April 13, 2025 Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country. Following U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent visit, President Donald Trump confirmed troop deployments, stating, “We’ve moved a lot of troops to Panama.” Hegseth cited the need to[…]

Nicaragua in CELAC: There Neither Was Nor is Consensus

April 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Regional Solutions, Resistance

Statement by the Nicaraguan Government, published on Workers World, April 17, 2025 The following are excerpts from the statement of the Nicaraguan government on April 9, 2025, to the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. We will continue to denounce all forms of aggression and unilateral coercive measures against the dreams of[…]

President Maduro Demands End to Persecution of Venezuelan Migrants

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Immigrants, Racism, US Government Action, Venezuela

By Telesur and Resumen Latinoamericano , published in Workers World,, March 22, 2025. Translation: John Catalinotto Venezuela: President Maduro demands respect for national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants. On March 22, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro demanded respect for his country’s national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants, while denouncing arbitrary kidnapping[…]

VSN Denounces Trump’s Targeting of Venezuelan Migrants

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor El Salvador, Imperialism, Migrants, Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, US Government Action, Venezuela

Statement by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network, March 2025 The Venezuela Solidarity Network (VSN) denounces President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization as an outrageous and illegal action that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan migrants in the context of an ongoing effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela. The VSN[…]

Tren de Aragua: Reality and Propaganda

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Immigrants, Prisons and Prisoners, Propaganda, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

By Eligio Rojas, published on the Orinoco Tribune, March 21, 2025 “Cosmic dust.” This is how President Nicolás Maduro described the defunct Tren de Aragua, the criminal gang whose name echoes across Latin America and beyond as if it was an organization with a central command, camps, and an arsenal. “The Tren de Aragua is cosmic dust in Venezuela; it[…]

How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for ‘Regime Change’

March 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Counter Revolution, coup, Hybrid Warfare, Nicaragua, Right Wing Extremism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

By John Perry, published on Covert Action Magazine, Jan 2, 2025 In the words of the United Nations, “human rights” range from “the most fundamental—the right to life—to those that make life worth living, such as the rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty.” These rights are supposed to be “inherent to us all.” But this lofty ambition has[…]

The Truth About Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis”

March 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Capitalism, CIA, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Mass action, The War at Home, U.S. Hegemony, US Government Action, US Politics

By John Pottinger and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, February 23, 2025 The Truth Abut Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis” A Marxist Assessment That President Trump has dismantled or significantly gutted some dozen or more government agencies, frozen the allocation of trillions of dollars in the federal budget allocated to run the country, fired multiple[…]

Venezuelan President Criticized for Not Being a Proper Dictator

February 17, 2025 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Democracy and Consent, Immigrants, Imperial Lies and Liars, Latin America, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela, War on the Poor

by Roger D. Harris, published on Internationalist 360°, February 2, 2025 Hot off the newswires are shocking tales of democratic elections in Venezuela, grassroots organizations forming food cooperatives, and repatriation of migrants. What will one of the media establishment’s most demonized “authoritarian regimes” do next? Bloomberg approvingly quotes an opposition-supporting Venezuelan living in Chile that Venezuela’s scheduling of parliamentary and[…]

Whether Biden Or Trump, US’ Latin American Policy Will Be Contemptible

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Deportation, Latin America, Neocolonialism, U.S. Hegemony, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention

by John Perry and Roger D. Harris, published on Popular Resistance, January 30 2025 Migration, Drugs, and Tariffs. With Donald Trump as the new US president, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. In this article, we look at some of the speculation, then address three specific instances of how the US’s policy priorities may[…]