With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year…

I have a crush on Claudia Sheinbaum, who has been president of Mexico since October 2024. Foreign leaders usually strike me as…

Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted…

It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But…

Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism…

For anyone paying even modest attention to the current administration’s foreign policy posture, a Christmas Day bombing justified as “protecting Christians from…

The victory of José Antonio Kast in Chile’s 2025 presidential election ends a political cycle that began, improbably, with a subway fare…

After years in which Chile promised a rupture from neoliberalism, Sunday’s elections were a major setback. While the Left’s joint candidate, Jeannette Jara,…

The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens…

US President Donald Trump has announced a “total and complete blockade” of all US-sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela — an…