The recently concluded Guyanese elections spectacularly reinforced what many already suspected: liberal democracy is one of the biggest cons ever thrust upon humanity. With US fighter jets thundering overhead as President Ali was sworn in, the message was clear, the deal is done, and Guyana remains a captured state in service of US imperial interests. . . .
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Turning its back on Cuba: Government of Guyana sells its soul
Trump and Rubio are now inflicting the unthinkable on Cuba – an embargo that deprives the Cuban people of vital fuel. This is an immoral, illegal and ruthless attempt to deal a final death blow to Cuba. The question is, will the world allow Cuba, a symbol of human dignity and resistance, to fall? . . .
U.S. trying to set fire to the Caribbean
They would do well to take a look at the fate of those who at various points decided to make themselves willing pawns of the US in its drive for global domination. They are on the road of Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and they may come to find out, like Zelensky of Ukraine, that the US will use you and discard you when it no longer has uses for you.
The people of the Caribbean cannot allow the US and its lackeys to set fire to our home. . . .
Guyana and Venezuela: The Currently Unfolding Crisis of Imperialism
This week Venezuela will hold a referendum on annexing Guyana’s Essequibo region, claiming that it wants to rescue those Guyanese in Essequibo “mired in misery, in abandonment.” While Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaks to a real concern impacting the Guyanese people – the external capture of governance in the country by ExxonMobil and US Southern Command (Westervelt 2023) – Maduro’s statement shows a real disregard for Guyana and Guyanese people while amplifying a rightist tendency in Venezuelan politics that historically aimed to cement Venezuelan nationalism under the guise of anti-communist security objectives. Maduro is not standing with Guyanese workers or . . .
‘We are in Nobody’s Backyard’: Rejecting Geopolitical and Historical Fatalism
Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago participated in this region-wide military exercise with army personnel from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and the Netherlands. We were told that Operation Tradewinds was “a US Southern Command sponsored combined joint exercise conducted with partner nations to enhance the collective ability of defense forces and constabularies . . .