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

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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