Celebration of the 47th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in Managua. (July 19, 2026) The US-centered Western techno totalitarian ruling elite is greatly intensifying their assault on democracy and freedom around the world seeking to recover and remake the West’s now vanishing monopoly control of international trade, technology and finance. Abandoning
Celebration of the 47th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in Managua. (July 19, 2026) Photo: César Pérez In a novel turn, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections. On July 19th, in a speech to 70,000
Celebration of the 47th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in Managua. (July 19, 2026) Photo: César Pérez Watching the 2026 World Cup matches has been excruciating for me. I always root for the underdogs: the teams from countries with few resources to dedicate to sport, who have made it there against
Street artist sketches Diego Maradona in La Boca, Buenos Aires. Photo: Camila Escalante (2025) Argentina is now in the World Cup final and false information is circulating, portraying the remaining non-European nation in the tournament as white supremacist, Zionist, and more, following viral clips of abusive behaviour by Argentinian fans at FIFA’s matches. Some complexity was
The official death toll in Venezuela has risen to 920, with 3,360 injured and many still trapped under the rubble. President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, provided a live update at 1:15pm Friday in which he assured that rescue teams are tirelessly trying to reach those trapped under buildings, particularly in La
The current political situation in Venezuela cannot be explained solely by the events following January 3, 2026. We need to contextualize what has been happening over the past four decades. In the 1990s, there was total U.S. hegemony on the continent, which imposed the NAFTA agreement on us, and then sought to impose the FTAA
Members of the Comuna Socialista Simón Bolívar in Caracas’ 23 de enero neighborhood share how they experienced the U.S. terrorist attack on Venezuela on January 3rd, in which they killed 130 people and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, while targeting civilian infrastructure. They also express their views on the situation in the country,
The ambassador of Nicaragua to Iran, Ramón Moncada, along with ambassadors and diplomats from more than thirty countries, paid a visit to the sites of civilian buildings in Tehran which were destroyed or damaged in attacks perpetrated by the United States and Zionist regime. Diplomats from Oman, India, Russia, Belarus, Uruguay, Chile, Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey, Armenia,
I would not rely on Al Jazeera for so much as the weather. I don’t share, amplify, or in any way legitimize Al Jazeera. There are other ways to get news from Palestine, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Lebanon, and Syria, without the need of foreigners. Al Jazeera has always amplified the imperialist human rights
Camila Escalante is a journalist and news correspondent recognized for her in-the-field reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since her years as a broadcast editor, presenter and anchor at teleSUR English—working from newsrooms in Quito, Caracas and Havana—Camila has delivered first-hand reporting from key events across the region. Camila co-founded Kawsachun News alongside Oliver
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