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Year 2025 In Review For Latin America And The Caribbean

By Roger D. Harris and John Perry, Popular Resistance. December 31, 2025 The Reactionary Backwash. 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[…]

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U.S. Peace Council Statement: Trump Orders No-fly Zone Over Venezuela

U.S. Peace Council, published December 2, 2025 On November 29, U.S. President Trump announced that he had ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety.” The United States has no legal authority to close Venezuelan air traffic. This unilateral declaration, issued without U.S. Congressional or United Nations approval, constitutes a brazen escalation of military aggression and a[…]

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