The North-South Project Reclaims Human Rights as People(s)-Centered

The North-South Project Reclaims Human Rights as People(s)-Centered

December 10th, International Human Rights Day, represents one year since the launching of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights. The North-South Project seeks to address the contradiction of the human rights idea being co-opted and instrumentalized as a weapon of white supremacist colonial domination and exploitation. The PCHR frame emerged to counter that. Rooted in the decolonization process, it gives the frame new content that emanates from the values, perspectives and needs of the peoples and nations of the global South that have been subjected to assaults on their humanity since Europeans spilled out of Europe into what became the “Americas” in 1492.

Some of the activities of the Project included the launch of a petition to demand that FIFA and the IOC (International Olympic Committee) ban the U.S. and Israel from participating in or hosting international sporting events, and a coalitional webinar to highlight sports as an arena for principled political struggle. The Project has also observed elections in Ecuador, connecting the process to the PCHR framework and has furthered solidarity with the “Children of the Malvinas” and supporting organizations, to demand people(s)-centered human rights for the people of Ecuador. The Project continues to disseminate a bi-monthly publication, the Bulletin on Domestic Militarism and Repression, connecting global militarism to domestic tactics of repression.

International Human Rights Day supposedly commemorates the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, originally proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948. Even in this year of its establishment, Eurocentrism corrupted the idea of human rights when Israel and South África were welcomed into the community of nations and the fact that both were racist settler colonialist states was ignored. Furthermore, the “global pledge” of the Declaration is rendered meaningless when the U.S. and Israel continue to commit daily barbarous acts of violence, displacement and genocide against the Palestinians, with neverending impunity. The UNSC continues to reinforce its standing as a legitimizing agency for U.S. full spectrum domination through its approval of the U.S. “Peace Plan” for Gaza, further oppressing Palestinians’ right to self-determination and calling it a “resolution,” as well as its recent vote on September 30 to intensify the U.S. occupation of Haiti via “gang suppression forces”, using militarized tactics to violently quell the will of the people and advance the U.S. settler colonial project. 

This is compounded by the UN’s theme for this year, claiming that human rights are prescriptive “everyday essentials” and that they are “attainable,” rather than fought for, further undermining the necessity for human rights to be grounded in self-determination and social struggle. The PCHR frame rejects this approach, understanding that the process of achieving true people(s)-centered human rights can only be driven by the people, within decolonized systems, through protracted struggle. 

With the intensification of the neofascist challenge, the Project intends to broaden the integration of the PCHR frame in 2026 through collective learning and building power with partner organizations globally to support the development of the agency of peoples to define and defend their human rights including the right to self-determination. 

Currently, the Project is building an anti-fascist football coalition with key organizations in the countries hosting the 2026 World Cup (Canada, Mexico, U.S.) that have been meeting to further a collective mission and implement objectives, strategies and tactics to move the games from the U.S. and deepen mass resistance from all of our bases. To highlight the contradictions, danger, and urgency of the U.S. as a World Cup hosting country, the Project is launching a series of media propaganda to broaden popular support for the demands of the petition. The first video launches today to reinvigorate the petition’s reach and expand the coalition of organizations in alignment with the stated demands. 

Further work for the Project is coordinated through the Global Network for the Advancement of People(s)-Centered Human Rights – a space that fosters connectivity, communication and cooperation that will facilitate information sharing and possible strategic collaborations between activists, researchers, educators, organizers and other interested individuals and organizations. Join the Global Network here to reclaim authentic People(s)-Centered Human Rights and further our collective resistance. 

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El Proyecto Norte-Sur Reivindica los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos

El 10 de diciembre, Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, se cumple un año desde el lanzamiento del Proyecto Norte-Sur por los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos. El Proyecto Norte-Sur busca abordar la contradicción de que la idea de los derechos humanos haya sido cooptada e instrumentalizada como un arma de dominación y explotación colonial supremacista blanca. El marco de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos surgió para contrarrestar eso. Enraizado en el proceso de descolonización, dota al marco de un nuevo contenido que emana de los valores, perspectivas y necesidades de los pueblos y naciones del Sur global, que han sufrido ataques contra su humanidad desde que los europeos salieron de Europa hacia lo que se convirtió en las “Américas” en 1492.

Algunas de las actividades del Proyecto incluyeron el lanzamiento de una petición para exigir que la FIFA y el COI (Comité Olímpico Internacional) prohíban la participación o la sede de eventos deportivos internacionales a Estados Unidos e Israel, y un seminario web coalicional para destacar el deporte como un ámbito de lucha política con principios. El Proyecto también ha observado elecciones en Ecuador, vinculando el proceso al marco del PCHR y ha fomentado la solidaridad con los “Niños de las Malvinas” y las organizaciones de apoyo, para exigir derechos humanos centrados en las personas para el pueblo de Ecuador. El Proyecto continúa difundiendo una publicación bimestral, el Boletín sobre Militarismo Doméstico y Represión, que conecta el militarismo global con las tácticas de represión internas.

El Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos supuestamente conmemora el aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, proclamada originalmente por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en París el 10 de diciembre de 1948. Incluso en este año de su establecimiento, el eurocentrismo corrompió la idea de los derechos humanos cuando Israel y Sudáfrica fueron aceptados en la comunidad de naciones, ignorándose el hecho de que ambos eran estados racistas, colonialistas y de colonos. Además, la “promesa global” de la Declaración pierde todo sentido cuando Estados Unidos e Israel continúan cometiendo a diario actos bárbaros de violencia, desplazamiento y genocidio contra el pueblo palestino, con una impunidad interminable. El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU sigue reforzando su papel como agencia legitimadora de la dominación estadounidense de espectro completo al aprobar el “Plan de Paz” de Estados Unidos para Gaza, oprimiendo aún más el derecho a la autodeterminación de los palestinos y llamándolo “resolución”, así como con su reciente votación del 30 de septiembre para intensificar la ocupación estadounidense de Haití mediante “fuerzas de supresión de pandillas”, utilizando tácticas militarizadas para reprimir violentamente la voluntad del pueblo y avanzar en el proyecto colonial de asentamiento de Estados Unidos.

Esto se ve agravado por el tema elegido por la ONU para este año, que afirma que los derechos humanos son “elementos esenciales cotidianos” prescriptivos y que son “alcanzables”, en lugar de algo por lo que se lucha, socavando aún más la necesidad de que los derechos humanos estén fundamentados en la autodeterminación y la lucha social. El marco de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos (PCHR por su nombre en inglés) rechaza este enfoque, entendiendo que el proceso para lograr verdaderos derechos humanos centrados en los pueblos solo puede ser impulsado por el pueblo, dentro de sistemas descolonizados, a través de una lucha prolongada.

Con la intensificación del desafío neofascista, el Proyecto pretende ampliar la integración del marco PCHR en 2026 mediante el aprendizaje colectivo y la construcción de poder junto con organizaciones aliadas a nivel mundial, para apoyar el desarrollo de la capacidad de agencia de los pueblos para definir y defender sus derechos humanos, incluido el derecho a la autodeterminación.

Actualmente, el Proyecto está construyendo una coalición antifascista de fútbol con organizaciones clave en los países que acogerán la Copa del Mundo de 2026 (Canadá, México, EE.UU.), las cuales se han estado reuniendo para impulsar una misión colectiva e implementar objetivos, estrategias y tácticas para trasladar los partidos fuera de Estados Unidos y profundizar la resistencia de masas desde todas nuestras bases. Para resaltar las contradicciones, el peligro y la urgencia de que Estados Unidos sea un país anfitrión del Mundial, el Proyecto está lanzando una serie de piezas de propaganda mediática para ampliar el apoyo popular a las demandas de la petición. El primer video se lanza hoy para revitalizar el alcance de la petición y expandir la coalición de organizaciones alineadas con las demandas planteadas.

El trabajo adicional del Proyecto se coordina a través de la Red Global para el Avance de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos, un espacio que fomenta la conectividad, la comunicación y la cooperación para facilitar el intercambio de información y posibles colaboraciones estratégicas entre activistas, investigadores, educadores, organizadores y otras personas y organizaciones interesadas. Únete a la Red Global aquí para reivindicar unos Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos auténticos y fortalecer nuestra resistencia colectiva.

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Press Release: U.S. Solidarity Delegation Blocked From Traveling to Venezuela

U.S. Solidarity Delegation Blocked From Traveling to Venezuela by Illegal Trump “No-Fly Zone” to Discuss Legal and Political Response 

Date: Wednesday, December 10
Press Conference: 2:00 PM
Location: Solidarity Center, 121 West 27th, Suite 404, 4th Floor, NY, NY, 10001
Contact: Suzanne Adely, Tel. (773) 510-7446; Corinna Mullin, Tel. (929) 342-8139

New York, NY — A coalition of peace, justice, and antiwar organizers inside the United States announced that they are joining forces with lawyers to explore potential legal challenges after being illegally prevented from traveling to Venezuela to attend the People’s Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty in Our Americas, held December 8–9 and organized by the Simón Bolívar Institute in Caracas. Their travel was obstructed due to Trump’s criminal blockade and illegal GPS interference in Venezuelan airspace. The organizers who were blocked will hold a press conference in New York City on Wednesday, December 9, at 2:00 PM.

Representatives had planned to travel on behalf of a broad coalition of organizations, including Workers World Party, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the International Action Center, National Lawyers Guild- International Committee, International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), Asociación Americana de Juristas (AAJ), the National Anti-War Action Network, the Black Alliance for Peace, Resist US-Led War, the U.S. Peace Council, Mutual Aid Scientific Socialism (MASS), Veterans for Peace, the Palaver Collective, Crown Heights Bites Back, the December 12th Movement, the Struggle for Socialism Party, Students for a Democratic Society, CODEPINK, International League of Peace and Struggle, 

Venezuela Solidarity Network, and the Bolivarian Circle—reflecting the depth and diversity of grassroots, anti-imperialist, and working-class forces committed to international solidarity with Venezuela. 

The Assembly brings together over 2,000 delegates from social movements, labor organizations, women’s and youth networks, Indigenous and Afro-descendant movements, and peace organizations across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and North America. Its purpose is to build coordinated strategies for defending peace, sovereignty, and self-determination in the hemisphere—a gathering more urgent than ever amid escalating U.S. military aggression. Yet U.S.-based delegates—operating inside “the Belly of the Beast”—were barred from participating after the Trump administration attempted to impose a de facto no-fly zone over Venezuelan airspace.

On November 29, President Trump declared—without Congressional approval, UN authorization, or legal authority—that Venezuelan airspace should be considered “closed in its entirety.” Almost immediately, pilots began reporting GPS interference and “navigation signal disruptions” while approaching Caracas International Airport. Aviation analysts note that such disruptions mirror electronic warfare tactics the United States has deployed in advance of military operations in other regions. The resulting climate of uncertainty triggered cascading flight suspensions and widespread anxiety among travelers, with 75% of international flights to Venezuela cancelled as a result. 

For thousands of Venezuelans abroad, these disruptions have produced a humanitarian crisis for families attempting to return home for Christmas, stranded in airports from Madrid to Panama City. Elderly passengers have gone days without assistance, and many travelers have been forced to reroute through Bogotá and cross into Cúcuta on foot just to reach Venezuelan territory. In response, the Venezuelan government has mobilized state-owned aircraft to assist stranded citizens and ensure reunification during the holiday season.

Against this backdrop, the US peace delegation sees these travel restrictions as a deliberate attempt to disrupt international solidarity. “This is an attempt to blockade solidarity and to isolate Venezuela from the global peace movement,” said coalition spokesperson Sara Flounders. “We were invited to Venezuela to build working-class unity, strengthen international anti-imperialist coordination, and deepen our collective struggle for peace. The U.S. government sought to stop us from even showing up,” said Roger Wareham from the December 12th Movement. 

Delegates emphasize that this no-fly zone attempt is not an isolated incident, but part of a decades-long U.S. campaign of imperialist aggression—from multiple failed coup attempts, including the 2002 U.S.-backed coup against President Hugo Chávez; to the backing of astroturfed opposition figures such as Juan Guaidó and María Corina Machado; to the 2020 CIA-linked “Operation Gideon” plot to kidnap President Maduro; to ongoing economic warfare, illegal sanctions, and political destabilization. Despite these escalations, recent polling shows that 70 percent of U.S. residents oppose a war on Venezuela.

“We refuse to accept the lies used to justify regime change and resource theft,” said William Camacaro. “The real threat to peace in the hemisphere is US imperialism—not the Bolivarian Revolution,” added Corinna Mullin, of the U.S. Peace Council.

Though physically blocked, the coalition states that their commitment has only grown stronger. “Our bodies were blocked from traveling, but our solidarity was not,” said Suzanne Adely, of the National Lawyers Guild. Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer for Black Alliance for Peace, noted, “Washington’s greatest fear is not a plane landing in Caracas—it is that people’s movements across the Americas are learning from each other, deepening unity, and organizing together against imperialism.”

The coalition affirmed its determination to expand the antiwar movement inside the United States and strengthen global struggles against capitalism, militarism, and imperialism.

No War on Venezuela.

Venceremos.

North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights Stands with the Community on the One Year Anniversary of the Murder of the “Children of the Malvinas”

North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights Stands with the Community on the One-Year Anniversary of the Murder of the “Children of the Malvinas”

Statement by Ajamu Baraka
Director, North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights

December 8, 2025

The Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights stands in solidarity with the families, legal representatives, the Solidarity Committee with the Four Children of Las Malvinas, organizations and social leaders, civil society and human rights defenders who are working to bring about accountability for the horrific murder of the four precious young boys known around the world as the “Children of the Malvinas” - Josué Didier, Ismael Eduardo Arroyo Bustos, Steven Gerald Medina Lajones and Nehemias Saul Arboleda Portocarrero.

We also condemn all actions on the part of state and non-state actors to intimidate those same family members, supporters and human rights organizations working on behalf of the “Children of the Malvinas.”

We support the decision by the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances to expand protections for the families and legal representatives of the “Children of the Malvinas.” In that declaration, the UN reaffirmed the responsibility of the state to provide security support during the judicial process.

With our presence, we reaffirm our commitment to honor the lives of these children and to continue to work internationally to ensure that there is accountability. The implications of this case reverberates well beyond Ecuador. The circumstances that led to the murder of these children are emblematic of the precarious existence and persistent devaluation of the lives of Afrodescendants throughout this region.

The fact that there exists a mindset among some people that they could torture and murder these children with impunity is a dramatic example of the vulnerability that so many people of African descent experience in this country and throughout this region because impunity for the murder of Black people is so much the norm.

Those days, however, are coming to an end. Afrodescendants understand they have human rights, including the most precious right of all – the right to life, and are demanding that those rights are recognized and are building, through organization, their capacity to defend their fundamental rights.

The Black Alliance for Peace reaffirms with our presence, and with the eyes of the world, that we will not allow the world to forget these children. Their lives had value, their families deserved to be able to believe that their children would be protected by the agents of the state, that their inherent dignity and human rights would be recognized.

Yet, that was not the case. Instead of security so often Afro-Ecuadorians feel that their rights are under constant threat because their inherent humanity is not recognized.

It is clear that within the traditional understanding of the human rights frame that the state has a responsibility to recognize, protect and fulfill the fundamental human rights of the individuals and collectives that reside in the state. This is an important principle.

However, that principle and responsibility reside side by side with the principle that the people themselves have a right to define and defend their rights. That is the essence of the People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework. It asserts that the ultimate source of human rights legitimacy emanates from the people and that the people have the fundamental right to protect their rights.

The communities of Guayaquil and throughout Ecuador have spoken. Through this case they are asserting their rights and their peoplehood. In that effort, individuals, peoples and states around the world are in solidarity as they assert their voice and presence.

Justice for the Children of the Malvinas!

Make Human Rights Real!

Thank you.

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El Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos se solidariza con la comunidad en el primer aniversario del asesinato de los “Niños de las Malvinas”

Declaración de Ajamu Baraka
Director del Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos

8 de diciembre de 2025

El Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos, de la Alianza Negra por la Paz, se solidariza con las familias, los representantes legales, la Mesa de Solidaridad por los 4 niños de las Malvinas, las organizaciones y lideres sociales, la sociedad civil y los defensores de los derechos humanos que trabajan para que se rindan cuentas por el horrible asesinato de cuatro niños muy queridos conocidos en todo el mundo como los “Niños de las Malvinas”: Josué Didier, Ismael Eduardo Arroyo Bustos, Steven Gerald Medina Lajones y Nehemias Saúl Arboleda Portocarrero.

También condenamos todas las acciones por parte de actores estatales y no estatales para intimidar a los familiares, simpatizantes y organizaciones de derechos humanos que trabajan en nombre de los “Niños de las Malvinas.”

Apoyamos la decisión del Comité de las Naciones Unidas sobre Desapariciones Forzadas de ampliar la protección a las familias y los representantes legales de los “Niños de las Malvinas.” En esa declaración, la ONU reafirmó la responsabilidad del Estado de proporcionar apoyo en materia de seguridad durante el proceso judicial.

Con nuestra presencia, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de honrar la vida de estos niños y de seguir trabajando a nivel internacional para garantizar que se rindan cuentas. Las implicaciones de este caso repercuten mucho más allá de Ecuador. Las circunstancias que llevaron al asesinato de estos niños son emblemáticas de la precaria existencia y la persistente devaluación de la vida de los afrodescendientes en toda esta región.

El hecho de que exista una mentalidad entre algunas personas de que pueden torturar y asesinar a estos niños con impunidad es un ejemplo dramático de la vulnerabilidad que experimentan tantas personas de ascendencia africana en este país y en toda la región, ya que la impunidad por el asesinato de personas negras es la norma.

Sin embargo, esos días están llegando a su fin. Los afrodescendientes comprenden que tienen derechos humanos, incluido el más preciado de todos: el derecho a la vida, y exigen que se reconozcan esos derechos y están desarrollando, a través de la organización, su capacidad para defender sus derechos fundamentales.

La Alianza Negra por la Paz reafirma con nuestra presencia, y ante los ojos del mundo, que no permitiremos que el mundo olvide a estos niños. Sus vidas tenían valor, sus familias merecían poder creer que sus hijos estarían protegidos por los agentes del Estado, que se reconocerían su dignidad inherente y sus derechos humanos.

Sin embargo, no fue así. En lugar de seguridad, los afroecuatorianos sienten a menudo que sus derechos están constantemente amenazados porque no se reconoce su humanidad inherente.

Está claro que, dentro de la concepción tradicional del marco de los derechos humanos, el Estado tiene la responsabilidad de reconocer, proteger y cumplir los derechos humanos fundamentales de las personas y los colectivos que residen en él. Este es un principio importante.

Sin embargo, ese principio y esa responsabilidad coexisten con el principio de que los propios pueblos tienen derecho a definir y defender sus derechos. Esa es la esencia del marco de los derechos humanos centrados en los pueblos. Afirma que la fuente última de la legitimidad de los derechos humanos emana del pueblo y que este tiene el derecho fundamental a proteger sus derechos.

Las comunidades de Guayaquil y de todo Ecuador se han pronunciado. A través de este caso, están reivindicando sus derechos y su identidad como pueblo. En ese esfuerzo, individuos, pueblos y Estados de todo el mundo se solidarizan al hacer oír su voz y afirmar su presencia.

¡Justicia para los niños de las Malvinas!

¡Hagamos realidad los derechos humanos!

Gracias.

The Popular Steering Committee Stands in Solidarity with the People of Honduras Against US Interventionism

The Popular Steering Committee Stands in Solidarity with the People of Honduras Against US Interventionism

On November 30, 2025, the people of Honduras took to the polls to vote in the Presidential election to replace current President Xiomara Castro of the Libre Party and other positions across the Honduran government. In recent history, Honduras has endured endless amounts of violence due to US interference in the form of coups, the backing of narcotraffickers, and neoliberalism. Over the years since the 2009 coup, Castro, the Libre Party, and the people of Honduras have worked to create a new nation, one that serves the interests of the people. The Libre candidate Rixi Moncada promised to continue those reforms. However, a plot had been revealed that caused chaos on election day. President Donald Trump openly called for people to vote for the right-wing opposition and pardoned convicted drug trafficker, Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former dictator of Honduras and staunch US ally. All while the US ended TPS protections for different migrant groups including Hondurans, [1] while domestically using ICE to kidnap and deport them. Honduras continues to be of strategic importance to the US to further control Central America and stop the resurgence of leftist politics in the region and to maintain their neoliberal policies, one of the main reasons they are attacking Moncada and the attacks over the years against Castro.

This comes at a time when the US is militarizing the Caribbean and Latin America to attack Venezuela, having killed over 80 people in the Caribbean and in the Pacific under the farce of combating “drug trafficking” (a narrative disproven by the pardoning of Hernandez in Honduras). Not only is the US attempting to gain control of Venezuela’s oil, they are also seeking to destabilize the socialist project that is the Bolivarian Revolution which will ultimately have a ripple effect across the region.

At the same time, the US-backed Israeli genocide continues in Palestine with the increasing Zionist expansion across the region. Recently, Argentina signed a deal with Israel to strengthen relationships between the region and the Zionist entity. US-based weapons contractors like Palantir and Israel’s Cellebrite are used not only to support the Zionist entity in their genocide against Palestinians, but also against the people of Honduras and of course, the rest of the region. US imperialism and Zionism continue to be the biggest threat to our sovereignty across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the entire world. The US seeks to take the entire world to war if that means it could reestablish its dominance. We cannot allow this to happen and must continue to fight for a Zone of Peace and an end to US militarism and imperialism/capitalism.

We stand unequivocally against US interference in Honduras’ elections and we stand in full support of Rixi Moncada and the people of Honduras who voted for dignity and for a country that serves the people, and not the elite. We call on the masses of people in Honduras and across the region to struggle against the forces of US militarism, including all US military installations and US embassies. We deserve a Zone of Peace and we will continue to fight outside of the electoral arena to make this a reality.

In Joint Struggle and Revolution,

Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas

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El Comité Popular de Dirección se solidariza con el pueblo de Honduras contra el intervencionismo estadounidense

El 30 de noviembre de 2025, el pueblo de Honduras acudió a las urnas para votar en las elecciones presidenciales para reemplazar al actual presidente Xiomara Castro del Partido Libre y otros cargos en el gobierno hondureño. En la historia reciente, Honduras ha soportado cantidades interminables de violencia debido a la interferencia de Estados Unidos en forma de golpes de estado, el respaldo de narcotraficantes y el neoliberalismo. A lo largo de los años desde el golpe de estado de 2009, Castro, el Partido Libre y el pueblo de Honduras han trabajado para crear una nueva nación, una que sirva a los intereses del pueblo. El candidato Libre Rixi Moncada prometió continuar con esas reformas. Sin embargo, se había revelado un complot que causó caos el día de las elecciones. El presidente Donald Trump pidió abiertamente que la gente votara por la oposición derechista y indultó al narcotraficante condenado, Juan Orlando Hernández, el ex dictador de Honduras y aliado acérrimo de Estados Unidos. Todo mientras Estados Unidos puso fin a las protecciones del TPS para diferentes grupos de migrantes, incluidos los hondureños, mientras que a nivel nacional usaba ICE para secuestrarlos y deportarlos. Honduras sigue siendo de importancia estratégica para EE.UU. Para controlar aún más Centroamérica y detener el resurgimiento de la política de izquierda en la región y mantener sus políticas neoliberales, una de las principales razones por las que están atacando a Moncada y los ataques a lo largo de los años contra Castro.

Esto ocurre en un momento en que Estados Unidos está militarizando el Caribe y América Latina para atacar a Venezuela, habiendo matado a más de 80 personas en el Caribe y en el Pacífico bajo la farsa de combatir el “narcotráfico” (una narrativa refutada por el indulto de Hernández en Honduras). Estados Unidos no solo está tratando de obtener el control del petróleo de Venezuela, sino que también está tratando de desestabilizar el proyecto socialista que es la Revolución Bolivariana, que en última instancia tendrá un efecto dominó en toda la región.

Al mismo tiempo, el genocidio israelí respaldado por Estados Unidos continúa en Palestina con la creciente expansión sionista en toda la región. Recientemente, Argentina firmó un acuerdo con Israel para fortalecer las relaciones entre la región y la entidad sionista. Contratistas de armas con sede en Estados Unidos como Palantir y Cellebrite de Israel se utilizan no solo para apoyar a la entidad sionista en su genocidio contra los palestinos, sino también contra el pueblo de Honduras y, por supuesto, el resto de la región. El imperialismo yanqui y el sionismo continúan siendo la mayor amenaza a nuestra soberanía en América Latina, el Caribe y el mundo entero. Estados Unidos busca llevar al mundo entero a la guerra si eso significa que podría restablecer su dominio. No podemos permitir que esto suceda y debemos continuar luchando por una Zona de Paz y el fin del militarismo y el imperialismo/capitalismo estadounidense.

Nos oponemos inequívocamente a la injerencia de Estados Unidos en las elecciones de Honduras y apoyamos plenamente a Rixi Moncada y al pueblo de Honduras que votó por la dignidad y por un país que sirve al pueblo, y no a la élite. Hacemos un llamado a las masas populares en Honduras y en toda la región a luchar contra las fuerzas del militarismo estadounidense, incluyendo todas las instalaciones militares y embajadas estadounidenses. Merecemos una Zona de Paz y seguiremos luchando fuera de la arena electoral para hacer esto una realidad.

En Lucha Conjunta y Revolución,

Comité Directivo Popular para una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América

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O Comitê Popular de Direção solidariza-se com o povo de Honduras contra o intervencionismo estadunidense

Em 30 de novembro de 2025, o povo hondurenho foi às urnas para votar na eleição presidencial que substituirá a atual presidente Xiomara Castro do Partido Libre, além de outros cargos no governo hondurenho. Na história recente, Honduras tem suportado violência incessante devido à interferência dos EUA, sob a forma de golpes, apoio a narcotraficantes e neoliberalismo. Ao longo dos anos desde o golpe de 2009, Castro, o Partido Libre e o povo hondurenho trabalharam para criar uma nova nação, que sirva aos interesses do povo. A candidata do Libre, Rixi Moncada, prometeu dar continuidade a essas reformas. No entanto, um complô foi revelado, causando caos no dia da eleição. O ex-presidente Donald Trump defendeu abertamente o voto na oposição de direita e perdoou o condenado narcotraficante Juan Orlando Hernández, ex-ditador de Honduras e aliado firme dos EUA. Paralelamente, os EUA encerraram as proteções do TPS para diversos grupos de migrantes, incluindo hondurenhos, enquanto internamente usavam a ICE para sequestrá-los e deportá-los. Honduras continua sendo de importância estratégica para os EUA, visando maior controle sobre a América Central, impedir o ressurgimento da política de esquerda na região e manter suas políticas neoliberais — um dos principais motivos pelos quais atacam Moncada e promoveram os ataques ao longo dos anos contra Castro.

Isso acontece num momento em que os EUA estão militarizando o Caribe e a América Latina para atacar a Venezuela, matando mais de 80 pessoas no Caribe e no Pacífico sob a farsa de combater o “narcotráfico” (narrativa desmentida pelo perdão a Hernández em Honduras). Os EUA não apenas tentam controlar o petróleo venezuelano, mas também buscam desestabilizar o projeto socialista da Revolução Bolivariana, o que terá efeito cascata em toda a região.

Ao mesmo tempo, continua o genocídio israelense apoiado pelos EUA na Palestina, com a expansão sionista crescendo pela região. Recentemente, a Argentina firmou um acordo com Israel para fortalecer laços entre a região e a entidade sionista. Empresas de armas sediadas nos EUA, como a Palantir, e a israelense Cellebrite são usadas não apenas para apoiar a entidade sionista em seu genocídio contra palestinos, mas também contra o povo de Honduras e, claro, o restante da região. O imperialismo norte-americano e o sionismo continuam sendo as maiores ameaças à nossa soberania em toda a América Latina, Caribe e mundo inteiro. Os EUA buscam levar o mundo inteiro à guerra se isso significar reestabelecer sua dominação. Não podemos permitir que isso aconteça e devemos continuar lutando por uma Zona de Paz e pelo fim do militarismo e do imperialismo/capitalismo norte-americano.

Posicionamo-nos inequivocamente contra a interferência dos EUA nas eleições de Honduras e apoiamos integralmente Rixi Moncada e o povo hondurenho, que votou pela dignidade e por um país que sirva ao povo, e não à elite. Conclamamos as massas populares em Honduras e em toda a região a lutarem contra as forças do militarismo norte-americano, incluindo todas as instalações militares e embaixadas dos EUA. Merecemos uma Zona de Paz e continuaremos lutando fora da arena eleitoral para tornar isso realidade.

Em Luta Conjunta e Revolução,

Comitê Popular de Direção por uma Zona de Paz na Nossa América

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Komite Popilè Direksyon an solidarize ak pèp Ondiras kont entèvansyonis amerikèn nan

Nan dat 30 novanm 2025, pèp Ondiras te ale nan biwo vòt pou vote nan eleksyon prezidansyèl la pou ranplase prezidan aktyèl Xiomara Castro nan Pati Libre, ansanm ak lòt pozisyon nan tout gouvènman ondiren nan. Nan istwa resan, Ondiras te sipòte yon kantite vyolans ki pa janm fini akòz entèvansyon Etazini an nan fòm koudeta, sipò trafikan dwòg, ak neoliberalis. Pandan ane yo depi koudeta 2009, Castro, Pati Libre, ak pèp ondiren an te travay pou kreye yon nasyon nouvo, youn ki sèvi enterè pèp la. Kandida Libre Rixi Moncada te pwomèt pou kontinye refòm sa yo. Sepandan, yo te revele yon konplo ki te lakòz dezakò jou eleksyon an. Ansyen Prezidan Donald Trump te ouvètman mande moun pou yo vote pou opozisyon dwa ekstrèm lan e te padonnen trafikan dwòg kondane, Juan Orlando Hernández, ansyen diktatè Ondiras ak alye fèm Etazini. Pandan ke Etazini te mete fen nan pwoteksyon TPS pou divès gwoup imigran, ki gen ladan Ondirans, pandan ke yo te itilize ICE pou kidnape ak depòte yo. Ondiras kontinye gen enpòtans estratejik pou Etazini pou kontwole pi plis Amerik Santral epi anpeche politik gòch yo monte ankò nan rejyon an epi pou kenbe politik neoliberal yo, youn nan rezon prensipal yo ap atake Moncada ak atak yo pandan ane yo kont Castro.

Sa rive nan yon moman kote Etazini ap militarize Karayib la ak Amerik Latin pou atake Venezyela, yo touye plis pase 80 moun nan Karayib la ak nan Pasifik la anba komedi pou "konbat trafik dwòg" (yon naratif ki demanti pa padon pou Hernández nan Ondiras). Se pa sèlman Etazini ap eseye pran kontwòl petwòl Venezyela, yo ap chèche dezetabize pwojè sosyalis Revolisyon Bolivaryen an ki pral finalman gen yon efè ondulasyon nan tout rejyon an.

An menm tan, jenosid Izrayelyen ki sipòte pa Etazini la kontinye nan Palestin ak ekspansyon Sionis k ap ogmante nan tout rejyon an. Dènyèman, Ajantin te siyen yon akò ak Izrayèl pou ranfòse relasyon ant rejyon an ak antite Sionis la. Kontraktè zam ki baze nan Etazini tankou Palantir ak Cellebrite Izrayèl la yo itilize pa sèlman pou sipòte antite Sionis la nan jenosid yo kont Palestinyen, men tou kont pèp Ondiras ak, byen klou, rès rejyon an. Enperyalis Ameriken ak Sionis kontinye pi gwo menas sou souverènte nou nan tout Amerik Latin, Karayib, ak tout mond lan. Etazini ap chèche mennen tout mond lan nan lagè si sa vle di li ta kapab etabli dominasyon li ankò. Nou pa ka pèmèt sa rive epi nou dwe kontinye goumen pou yon Zòn Lapè ak yon fen nan militaris Ameriken ak enperyalis/kapitalis.

Nou kanpe san limit kont entèvansyon Etazini nan eleksyon Ondiras e nou kanpe an sipò total pou Rixi Moncada ak pèp ondiren ki te vote pou diyite ak pou yon peyi ki sèvi pèp la, epi pa elit la. Nou rele mas pèp Ondiras ak tout rejyon an pou yo lite kont fòs militaris Ameriken, ki gen ladan tout enstalasyon militè Ameriken ak anbasad Etazini. Nou merite yon Zòn Lapè epi nou pral kontinye goumen andeyò arèn eleksyon an pou fè sa yon reyalite.

Nan Lit Konjwen ak Revolisyon,

Komite Popilè Dirijan pou yon Zòn Lapè nan Amerik Nou an

Image: LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada at a June 28 rally in Honduras ahead of the party primaries. Photo: X

Media Release: Deeper into the Orbit of the US: the Visit by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff

Media Release

Deeper into the Orbit of the US: the Visit by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff

Today Trinidad and Tobago was taken deeper into the orbit of Washington’s imperial and colonial agenda with the visit of the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine. He met with the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago who is also the Chair of this country’s National Security Council. This is not an accidental occurrence. Nor is it normal. One will be hard pressed to find that any previous sitting Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visited this country.

General Caine is on a swing through the Caribbean. On this visit he is to visit US troops on some of the US naval ships located in the Caribbean and is to visit Puerto Rico where the US has recently stationed many fighter jets and bombers. He is not on a tourist trip. The Chair of the Joint Chiefs has as one of his responsibilities to advise the US President, Secretary of Defence and the National Security Council. He assesses the preparation of US troops for missions and combat; he does strategic planning which includes scenario planning for military actions and in the process conducts risk assessments.

So, in keeping with his duties and responsibilities he is in this region to assess the state of the US assets and the position of any US allies so as to properly advise the President of what to do with respect to Venezuela. Remember Trump believes that the recent designation of the (fictitious) Cartel of the Suns as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation gives him the authority to attack Venezuela. He said as much last week. In the words of Trump himself “it allows us to do that…”

The people of Trinidad and Tobago are due a proper explanation by the Prime Minister on this visit. We do not want to hear some rehashed story about mutual collaboration in the fight against narco-traffickers. That is not what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deals with. He deals with war and preparations for war. He deals with militarily securing the US from attack by a foreign state. We must be told what commitments were made by the Prime Minister to General Caine and what was promised in return?

And we are being treated like fools by this government by being told that all this US military activity in Trinidad and Tobago is normal, when there is an unprecedented 10% of the US Navy in the Caribbean and the US leadership tells the world that they have sent in CIA operatives to Venezuela and are considering a military strike against that country and even the mainstream media in the US are clear that this is about regime change in Venezuela.

With every passing day we are positioning ourselves as the willing partner for the imperialist agenda of a hegemonic power – the USA. If the US attacks Venezuela and/or engages in actions that result in regime change or internal conflict and a possible civil war, then Trinidad and Tobago’s government will be a complicit partner. It will stain our international standing as we will cease to be nonaligned or respected for taking an independent position. Instead we will be viewed as a lackey of Washington at a time when the majority of American citizens – according to recent polls – do not wish the US to go to war with Venezuela and do not have a favourable view of President Trump.

That is a bad place indeed for this country to find itself in.

Movement for Social Justice

David Abdulah

Political Leader

Image: DoD Photo by Benjamin Applebaum

Urgent Message: Military Attempting To Stop Electoral Process In Guinea Bissau 11/26/2025

Urgent Message: Military Attempting To Stop Electoral Process In Guinea Bissau 11/26/2025

The West African Country of Guinea Bissau held presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, 23rd of November, 2025. Prior to election day, the illegally established Supreme Court disqualified the African Party of Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) candidates by inventing the technicality that the PAIGC had not submitted its candidates before the due date. This illegal exclusion led the PAIGC to endorse the candidacy of  Fernando Dias da Costa, Social Renewal Party (PRS) President, and backed by the Inclusive Patriot Alliance (API), Big Calabash and the Terra Ranka Coalition, led by Domingos Simões Pereira of the PAIGC.

Upon completion of voting, official reports to the Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE) from the 10 Regions indicate that Fernando Dias da Costa won the election with a confirmed vote tally of 54%, while Ebalo Sissoco, the illegitimate president seeking re-election,  garnered 44% of the vote. These results were confirmed and signed today, 26 November and are due to be officially proclaimed on tomorrow, 27 November, by the National Electoral Commission.

In an attempt to prevent the announcement of Sissoco's defeat, military forces loyal to him attempted to invade several Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE), but were unable due to the Masses of People who surrounded the CRE Headquarters.

On 26 November, after Sissoco himself announced to several news outlets, such as Jeune Afrique, that he was the victim of a coup, the same group of soldiers loyal to Sissoco announced on National Television that they had “..taken Total Control of the Country..”. Shots have been fired in the streets of the Capitol City, Bissau. Domingos Simões Pereira, President of the African Party of Independence of Guinea Bissau (PAIGC), and President of the National People's Assembly (ANP) has been arrested by these same military forces loyal to Embalo Sissoco.  Sissoco’s whereabouts remain unknown.

The All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) and our sister Party, the PAIGC, view these military actions as a futile attempt to keep Sissoco in power by pretending to be the victim of a military coup, which Sissoco himself orchestrated after falsely proclaiming himself the winner of the elections. The revolting military forces intervened when both candidates claimed to win the election, causing a “crisis of uncertainty”. Their real intent is to prevent the proclamation of Fernando Dias da Costa and his PAIGC backers, the winners of Sunday's election.

The AAPRP calls upon all international institutions, regional bodies, progressive and peace-loving People, to join the masses of People in Guinea Bissau to demand:

• The immediate release of Domingos Simões Pereira and all citizens who have been illegally detained

• That the military harm no one

• That all military troops return to the barracks

• That the electoral process be allowed to go forward with the official proclamation of the vote count and announcement of the winners of Sunday’s elections.

We soundly condemn the desperate attempt by Sissoco and his imperialist masters to once again overthrow the popular will of the Guinean masses and thwart the sovereignty of Guinea Bissau.

Central Committee

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party

Image: A woman casts her vote during the presidential and legislative elections, in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. Copyright © africanews. The Associated Press.

The Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas Welcomes the Reaffirmation of Our Region as a Zone of Peace

Calls on the Grassroots Organization of the Masses of the Peoples of Our America to Unify Our Struggles Against the Common Enemy

PRESS RELEASE

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November 10, 2025 - The Social component of CELAC met over the last two days on November 8-9, 2025 in Santa Marta, Colombia with representation from social movements, mass based organizations and civil society coming together with the absolute clarity and necessity to make our region a Zone of Peace to combat and confront the US/NATO led aggressions in the Caribbean and Pacific against Venezuela, Colombia and the region at large. 

We had participants of the Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas (PSC) in these meetings and participation at all levels amplifying the call from the masses to unify our struggles against our common enemy - the US/EU/NATO Axis of Domination. As the final declaration from the summit states, 

Latin America and the Caribbean play a decisive and strategic role in the struggle to consolidate a multipolar international system that successfully incorporates all states and peoples in full equality of conditions within the dynamics of world politics and economy. This breaks with the logic that normalizes the dominance of some states over others in the international system, making it possible to create conditions for Our America to become a significant center of power that could be decisive in the most complex decisions of international politics.

We have to unite to defeat the imperialist aggression against the Bolivarian people of Venezuela, poor fishermen off the coast of the Caribbean and Pacific from Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago or Venezuela, to the struggle for Haitian self determination against a new US led occupation force under the cover of the so called international community via the UN, to the struggle against ICE community raids in the streets of NY, LA and Chicago among others. 

To realize these objectives, the Popular Steering Committee is participating in the week of action Nov 15-23 in defense of Venezuelan sovereignty and calls for the organized masses of the region to also participate and amplify our collective voices on November 19th for a Regional Day of Action, and the continued development and expansion of the US/NATO Out of Our Americas Network as an organizational structure and platform from which to communicate, coordinate and successfully execute the expulsion of the US/NATO.

We call on the masses of Our Americas to unite to the Week of Action in Defense of Venezuelan Sovereignty with a key focus on:

1. Close the bases - Shut down the over 76 SOUTHCOM military bases throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. This includes the expansion into the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Talara, Piura, and along the entire Pacific Coast, and others. 

2. Reaffirm Puerto Rican independence and Haitian sovereignty - Puerto Rican sovereignty and independence are a necessity to end current military expansion and aggression in the Caribbean against Venezuela as well as long-term guarantee of US/NATO forces out of Our Americas. The popular struggle for Haitian self-determination is key to the guarantee of a true Zone of Peace. The cradle of revolution in Our Americas has been and always will be Ayiti.

Image: Courtesy of Frederic Sierakowski/ European Union