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.
#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.
The Pentagon on Friday ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/25/world/politics/trump-aircraft-carrier-latin-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #latinamerica #southamerica #venezuela #colombia #donaldtrump #usmilitary #aircraftcarriers #drugs
U.S. President Donald Trump's threat this week to slap Colombia with tariffs over its drug policy marked an escalation in his feud with a country that has long been one of Washington's closest Latin American allies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/22/world/politics/trump-colombia-tariffs-us-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #colombia #gustavopetro #southamerica #latinamerica #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #drugs #caribbean
"From Baghdad to Caracas: a Washington manual on sanctions and war
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it."
Manolo De Los Santos
peoples dispatch
October 20, 2025
#LatinAmerica #Venezuela #Iraq #USA #colonialism #imperialism #capitalism
Legal experts aren't surprised the U.S. government chose not to use the term "prisoners of war" to describe two survivors of an attack on a vessel last week by the U.S. military. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/21/world/crime-legal/trump-drug-war-prisoners-legal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #drugs #caribbean #organizedcrime #smuggling #venezuela #southamerica #latinamerica #us #donaldtrump #republicans #humanrights
alcinnz
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Do you know any #globalSouth #artist interested in #climate and/or #futurism #art ?
#africa #india #brazil #southAmerica #latinamerica #argentina #chile #colombia #southeastAsia #philippines #indonesia #singapore #middleEast #thailand #cambodia #climateChange #illustration
Do you know any #globalSouth #artist interested in #climate and/or #futurism #art ?
#africa #india #brazil #southAmerica #latinamerica #argentina #chile #colombia #southeastAsia #philippines #indonesia #singapore #middleEast #thailand #cambodia #climateChange #illustration
Colombia's president has used opposition to Donald Trump to burnish his image as a leftist David confronting Goliath — resulting in his U.S. visa being revoked. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/28/world/politics/colombia-trump-regional-rift/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #colombia #donaldtrump #southamerica #caribbean #venezuela #un #us #usmilitary #brazil #luizinacioluladasilva #latinamerica