Riot police brutally attacked protesters in the mostly Black city of Buenaventura, the South American nationâs largest port. Charo Mina-Rojas, of Black Community Process, part of a broad spectrum of organizations behind a general strike in the city of half a million people, said water is unavailable 150 days of the year, the people âdonât have access to health care, teachers have not been paid in months,â and violence is rampant in poor neighborhoods controlled by paramilitary gunmen. âWe donât see opportunities for real peace in Colombia if Black people continue under these racist attacks by the national government,â said Mina-Rojas.
Venezuela's revolution is a project of Afro-descendant empowerment and a force against imperialism that has long exploited the African diaspora and the Global South.
Foreign powers are responsible for Sudan's destruction. Real peace can only come when the right of self-determination for the Sudanese people is respected.
Operation Southern Spear is not a drug warâit is the first open military strike of a new U.S. doctrine: puncture the Caribbean, penetrate the continent, and weld the Americas into a captive bloc ofâŚ
Amidst US bombs and lies about Venezuelan drug trafficking as a pretext for regime change, the subordinated position of Caribbean statesâ economies plays a role in U.S. aggression.
In this weekâs segment, we listen to a press conference in support of the sovereign rights of Venezuela and of the rights of those who support the Venezuelan people to travel to that country. ButâŚ
