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.
Saint Lucia Experiences ‘Progress on Steroids!’ under Pierre Administration
Castries (The Voice): A fellow regional political observer -also a colleague journalist, friend and Comrade- responding to regional reports on the Saint Lucia Prime Minister’s 2024 end-of-year press conference, told me by phone Thursday: “Under Philip J. Pierre, these past three years have been seeing progress in Saint Lucia on steroids!”
Building ALBA, One Brick at A Time!
Artículo (The Voice): The presence of a delegation from Saint Lucia at a series of recent conferences in Venezuela on the establishment of an international anti-fascist front From Latin America to the World, allowed for exchanges on collective returns to Time and History, featuring untold stories of earlier Caribbean and Latin American struggles.
Time and History are not on Taiwan’s side!
As Taiwan’s top representative in Saint Lucia prepares to return home, Ambassador Peter Chen will surely be thinking hard about his island’s immediate future, as tensions grow in the strait that artificially separates the island from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
International conference agrees to mobilize global movement against fascism
Caracas (The Voice): A series of sectoral meetings concluded in Caracas on Thursday (November 28), with a declaration calling for establishment of a global anti-fascist movement to coordinate responses to the acceleration of aggressive imperial actions against the international progressive movement.
China Proposes Global Cooperation While West Promotes Conflict and Confrontation
Castries (The Voice): While colleagues attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and G-20 Summits in Peru and Brazil, respectively, were contemplating gravely on how the next US President will affect the world, China’s President Xi Jinping was quietly pursuing, in Latin America, his three latest proposals for global cooperation, development and security -and a shared humanity.
Black Faces in High Places is Not Enough!
Castries (The Voice): This headline was borrowed from the response of a Black American voter, interviewed two days before the November 5, 2024 Presidential Elections, on whether Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t naturally be ‘A good black president for African-Americans…’
War Is Not In The Caribbean’s DNA!
Castries (The Voice): At a time when China has upped its ante against accelerated secessionist moves by the new leader on Taiwan island, when the United States continues violating its own diplomatic recognition of the ‘One China’ policy to keep arming the island’s hostile Democratic People’s Party (DPP) administration; and when the non-independent island’s new foreign affairs minister is making his inaugural visit to the English-speaking nations that still have diplomatic ties with Taipei, it’s opportune to comment on Saint Lucia’s ties with both China and Taiwan -in this case referring to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the latest elected administration in Taiwan under President Lai Ching-te (also called William Lai).
