Hegseth praised the policy of sinking boats and killing alleged drug-runners whom the Trump administration considers enemy combatants and not criminals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/07/world/hegseth-defends-caribbean-strike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #usmilitary #petehegseth #defense #latinamerica
Frédéric Jacobs
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A group of former military #attorneys [ #JAG] who have scrutinized the #Trump administration’s #military activities in #LatinAmerica released an assessment Saturday outlining relevant international & domestic laws, & said that regardless of whether the #US is in an armed conflict, conducting law enforcement or other military operations, the targeting of defenseless people is prohibited.
#Hegseth #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #Congress #WarPowers
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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The U.S. military conducted a follow-up strike on a boat in the Caribbean that it believed to be ferrying drugs, killing survivors of an initial missile attack, U.S. media reported Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/29/world/us-killed-survivors-drug-boat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #usmilitary #defense #latinamerica #petehegseth #drugs
A group of former military #attorneys [ #JAG] who have scrutinized the #Trump administration’s #military activities in #LatinAmerica released an assessment Saturday outlining relevant international & domestic laws, & said that regardless of whether the #US is in an armed conflict, conducting law enforcement or other military operations, the targeting of defenseless people is prohibited.
#Hegseth #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #Congress #WarPowers
U.S. President Donald Trump has said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered "closed in its entirety," stirring anxiety and confusion in Caracas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/30/world/politics/trump-venezuela-airspace-closed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #venezuela #us #donaldtrump #nicolasmaduro #drugs #latinamerica #usmilitary
The U.S. military conducted a follow-up strike on a boat in the Caribbean that it believed to be ferrying drugs, killing survivors of an initial missile attack, U.S. media reported Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/29/world/us-killed-survivors-drug-boat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #usmilitary #defense #latinamerica #petehegseth #drugs
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro last week and discussed a possible meeting between them in the United States, The New York Times reported Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/29/world/politics/trump-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-call/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #venezuela #us #donaldtrump #nicolasmaduro #latinamerica #drugs #usmilitary
Nicaragua Releases Doctor to House Arrest After Disappearance
Nicaraguan authorities have released Yerri Estrada, a 30-year-old doctor with dual Costa Rican and Nicaraguan citizenship, from prison after holding him in forced disappearance for three months. The Ortega-Murillo government moved him to house arrest in León, according to the Legal Defense Unit. Estrada’s case drew attention from Costa Rica and the United States [...]
#Featured #LatinAmerica #News #Nicaragua
https://ticotimes.net/2025/11/24/nicaragua-releases-doctor-to-house-arrest-after-disappearance
Faced with a profit-destroying price war at home and a growing surplus of new cars rolling out of factory lines, Chinese car makers are widening their footprint across South America. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/19/markets/china-ev-south-america-tesla/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #electricvehicles #southamerica #tesla #carmakers #latinamerica #carmakers #china
The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/world/pentagon-drug-boat-pacific/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #usmilitary #latinamerica #venezuela #drugs
Chileans are voting on Sunday to elect a president as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations faces the unfamiliar challenges of high crime, clandestine migration and a torpid economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/world/politics/chile-vote-political-extremes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #chile #southamerica #latinamerica
Leo
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A US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the #LatinAmerica region on Tuesday, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Brian Finucane, Senior Adviser for the US Programme at the International Crisis Group, says that the Trump administration is using 'a rhetoric of counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics to cloak a regime-change programme'.
#Venezuela #Trump #Maduro #war
joene 🏴🍉
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Venezuela Mobilizes Military as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches
“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” said one policy expert of the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuelas-military
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Nov 12, 2025
White House officials have sought to walk back #Trump’s repeated threats against #Venezuela in recent days—even as the Department of Defense has continue to strike boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific—but officials in the South American country on Tuesday took the arrival of a #US aircraft carrier in the region seriously despite the administration’s claims that it won’t target Venezuela directly.
As the USS Gerald R. Ford entered waters near #LatinAmerica, accompanied by three warships, Venezuela’s #defense minister said its entire #military arsenal had been placed on “full operational readiness,” with President #Maduro ordering the deployment of nearly 200,000 soldiers.
A US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the #LatinAmerica region on Tuesday, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Brian Finucane, Senior Adviser for the US Programme at the International Crisis Group, says that the Trump administration is using 'a rhetoric of counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics to cloak a regime-change programme'.
#Venezuela #Trump #Maduro #war
Venezuela Mobilizes Military as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches
“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” said one policy expert of the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuelas-military
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Nov 12, 2025
White House officials have sought to walk back #Trump’s repeated threats against #Venezuela in recent days—even as the Department of Defense has continue to strike boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific—but officials in the South American country on Tuesday took the arrival of a #US aircraft carrier in the region seriously despite the administration’s claims that it won’t target Venezuela directly.
As the USS Gerald R. Ford entered waters near #LatinAmerica, accompanied by three warships, Venezuela’s #defense minister said its entire #military arsenal had been placed on “full operational readiness,” with President #Maduro ordering the deployment of nearly 200,000 soldiers.
tools for commensality 🧿
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#US strikes another alleged drug boat bringing death toll from campaign in #LatinAmerica to 70
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/us-strikes-another-alleged-drug-boat-latin-america
> US strikes have destroyed at least 18 vessels, but Washington has yet to make public any concrete evidence that its targets posed a threat to America
I recently realized that one of my favorite Borges books was written at one of humanity’s darkest times, at the height of hatred the world has ever seen, when Europeans were killing each other.
I’ve often wondered why Borges was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Was it eurocentrism? We’ll probably never know.
Still, I find comfort in knowing that while some were spreading immense suffering and despair, someone, somewhere in a quiet corner of the world, was busy creating beauty.
#Art #Borges #Literature #nazism #Europe #LatinAmerica #Holocaust
#US strikes another alleged drug boat bringing death toll from campaign in #LatinAmerica to 70
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/us-strikes-another-alleged-drug-boat-latin-america
> US strikes have destroyed at least 18 vessels, but Washington has yet to make public any concrete evidence that its targets posed a threat to America
🗣 The call for papers for the workshop ‘Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990’, co-organised by the IHC and CHAM, is now open.
📍 It will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 15 December.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/intellectual-exchanges-afam/
#Histodons #AntiColonialism #Solidarity #Africa #LatinAmerica #LiberationWars #CulturalHistory #IntelectualHistory #CFP #CulturalRevolution #PoliticalViolence
Lisa Melton
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#US #military officials involved with #Trump's expanding operations in #LatinAmerica have been asked to sign #NDAs, 3 US ofcls say, a development that raises new questions about a military buildup that #Venezuela fears may lead to #invasion.
The step is highly unusual, given that military ofcls are already required to shield #NationalSecurity secrets from public view, & comes as lawmakers in #Congress say they are being kept in the dark about key aspects of the mission.