These actions echo the crimes committed by fascist regimes in the 1930s, and the CIA’s “Operation Condor’s” cross-border repression by Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s.
Far from defending “the people of Mexico,” the Morena party government represents the transnational corporations and their Mexican capitalist clients above all.
The revocation of gas and oil licenses ends a financial lifeline for Venezuela, with catastrophic consequences.
Tuesday’s imposition of 25 percent tariffs is threatening to plunge Mexico into a historic crisis.
The "foreign terrorist" designations pave the way to a more predatory foreign policy and military interventions.
The Trump administration has ordered the detention of as many as 30,000 undocumented migrants in what is described as a “legal black hole” at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba US naval base.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trip to Latin America represented a classic exercise of big stick diplomacy, threatening weaker nations in the region with US imperialist diktats.
While repeating Trump’s lies about Panama, Senate leaders from both parties provide fraudulent justifications for a military intervention against the impoverished Central American country.
With the US far and away the main recipient of Colombian exports, the measures threaten to devastate South America’s third largest economy.
The fear of the Mexican ruling class is that Trump’s fascist policies and their own complicity will provoke a mass radicalization among workers and youth.
The president lacks the power to issue executive orders that contravene constitutional provisions like the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, but that did not stop Trump.
The US ruling class is approaching a consensus on the use of further economic devastation and potentially military force to oust Maduro and secure control over the world’s largest oil reserves.
President Sheinbaum is scrambling to prevent Mexican workers from becoming conscious of the seriousness of Trump’s threats and her own administration’s shift to the right.
Trump’s threats of neo-colonial subjugation can be opposed only by a working class revolutionary socialist movement that unites workers across North, Central and South America.
As Maduro plans to begin his third term on January 10, the US government and its regional partners are escalating reckless plans to oust him.
The nomination of Johnson makes clear that threats of military operations and a reckless tariff war against Mexico are not just bluster, as US imperialism resorts to the most brutal methods to recolonize Latin America.
The delusional trust and praise by the ruling class in the fascist “loco” Milei and the social devastation wrought by his first year in office make clear that capitalism has reached a fatal dead end and offers nothing but disaster.
US imperialism has not only encouraged a partnership between the CGT union apparatus and Milei, but sees it as a model for the incoming Trump administration.
Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican Party, hailed Milei’s measures in Argentina, proclaiming, “We are going to do the same thing in the United States.”
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum denied Trump’s claims that her administration has agreed to “effectively close” the US-Mexico border to migrants, but in reality this has already taken place.
