US Actions Against Cuba Underline Need for ‘Operation Truth’ in the Global South
Castries (The Voice): When the outgoing Biden administration announced -in its last hours- it was removing Cuba from Washington’s list of ‘state sponsors of terrorism’, international diplomatic and political observers not only smelt a rat, but also saw the big trap in the teasing slab of cheese being laid at the incoming president’s door.
Trump’s Second Coming and the Duopoly of Bipartisan Hegemony in America (III)
Castries (The Voice): In less than a week, the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, like the rest of the world, has come to see enough of the interlocking relationships between the 2nd Trump administration and the former Biden administration in terms of how they see America’s global role in the 21st Century.
Trump’s Second Coming and The Duopoly of Bipartisan Hegemony in America: Part 2
Castries (The Voice): Governments and people the-world-over are still nursing hangovers, or hanging-on to high hopes, as they come to grips with the return of the predictably unpredictable Donald Trump to the US Presidency.
Trump’s Second Coming and The Duopoly of Bipartisan Hegemony in America
Castries (The Voice): A baited world waited with bated breath, expecting the inauguration of the 47th US President on Monday (January 20) to show and tell how he intends to Make America Great Again (MAGA) and rule the world.
US presidents playing poker with Cuban lives
Castries (The Voice): The announcement by the US State Department -less than a week before leaving office- that it’s lifting the designation of Cuba as a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’, while welcome, would have been even-much-better news four years ago.
Caribbean Delegates call on UN to Condemn Violation of its Charter
Castries (The Voice): Caribbean delegates attending the closing forum of a new international entity established to expose and fight emerging fascist tendencies in the Latin American and Caribbean region, are calling on the United Nations (UN) to condemn the decision by a powerful member-state to issue a bounty on the head of a head-of-state of a fellow member-state.
Caribbean Delegates call on UN to Condemn Violation of its Charter
Castries (The Voice): Caribbean delegates attending the closing forum of a new international entity established to expose and fight emerging fascist tendencies in the Latin American and Caribbean region, are calling on the United Nations (UN) to condemn the decision by a powerful member-state to issue a bounty on the head of a head-of-state of a fellow member-state.
Venezuela: Maduro inaugurated a third time, ten days before Trump replaces Biden
Castries (The Voice): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro started his third term on Friday, January 10, opening a new year and a new era in his nation’s transformative undertaking to build the Bolivarian Socialist state initiated by his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela 2025: Engineering A New Future Under Continuing External Threats
Castries (The Voice): Venezuelans opened 2025 with high hopes and expectations following the brightest Christmas holiday period in living recent memory for many, breaking spending and e-commerce transaction records and praying for a peaceful year after the swearing-in of a new President on January 10.
Venezuela: collisions of coincidences, collusion of conspiracies or confluence of ideas?
Castries (The Voice): History has strange ways of linking events in different places in ways that can suggest unforeseen confluences of collisions, collusions and conspiracies, all visible but each equally confusing, leaving historians to observe together, but always differ.
