Link: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/clock-ticks-cuba-trump-cuts-off-venezuelan-oil-2026-01-13/ Cubans are getting ready for the worst seeing as President Trump has effectively put the island under siege via the oil restrictions now in place. The last shipment was made to Cuba by the PDVSA via a ghost tanker that delivered 600,000 barrels of crude oil. Cuba relies heavily on Venezuela for their oil needs, before the mid… Read more »
Link to the article:https://latinamericanpost.com/economy-en/venezuela-oil-bargain-with-trump-puts-sovereignty-on-auction-block/ The US and Venezuela have come to a deal that 2 billion dollars worth of oil would be taken and moved to the US. This deal also alleviates some of the pressure put on tankers via the US blockade since December of 25′. Trump has been promoting this as if it is the best thing that… Read more »
Link to article: https://latinamericanpost.com/analysis-en/venezuela-was-the-test-case-could-cuba-and-iran-be-trumps-next-target/ The article talks about how the swift raid conducted by the US on Jan. 3 of 2026. More importantly it talks about the message it sent to the nations around the world, ‘from Iran to Greenland’. The theory proposed is that these moves are a clear sign of President Trump’s desire for global hegemony via the… Read more »
Link to the article:https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/venezuela-ghost-tankers-outrun-trumps-sanctions-and-caracas-learns-again/ In 2019 President Trump put sanctions on Venezuela’s oil. In the past 6 years the Bpd has doubled to about a million a day. The work around for this is where the Ghost Tankers come in, they needed way to find a work around the blockade. S&P Global has estimated that one in five oil tankers… Read more »
Link to article: https://latinamericanpost.com/analysis-en/venezuela-tanker-blockade-turns-oil-into-a-high-seas-thriller/ This week President Trump has named the Venezuelan Government an FTO and has then ordered a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers. This is a continued act of aggression against the Venezuelans after the 90 people that have died from US strikes on suspected drug running vessels. In response to these actions Maduro has come… Read more »
Link to article: https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/colombia-gulf-clan-gets-terrorist-tag-as-fentanyl-fever-rises/ The Treasury Department has named the Gulf Clan of Colombia an FTO following an executive order from President trump making Fentanyl a WMD. This has reopened tensions and created a much more hostile environment in Colombia. This has also caused backlash seeing as just two weeks prior President Petro and the Gulf Clan were coming to… Read more »
Link to article:https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-ford-aircraft-carrier-drugs-military-trump-a86ddc6f5f51e12c87cbd9c55978c911?utm_source=chatgpt.com The United States is deploying the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier to the Venezuelan coast. This is meant to be a flex or a show of force from the US in order to project their dominance in the area. The reason given for the flex was to help disrupt drug running and trafficking. However many people… Read more »
Link to article:https://latinamericanpost.com/analysis-en/mexicos-pacification-myth-falling-homicides-hide-rising-disappearances-and-shifting-violence/ As Mexico celebrates a 37% drop in homicides and a slew of positive statistics there is many other factors not being included like extortion, attempted murder, and kidnapping. The article highlights that although murder rates are down, it is unwise for the President to say that it is because of her rule that the numbers have dropped…. Read more »
Link to article:https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/deterrence-by-chaos-inside-venezuelas-guerrilla-blueprint-to-stop-an-invasion/ The article begins by talking about how the generals of Venezuela are trying to plan for an attack that they know that they cannot defend. So they are creating a two tier plan consisting of “prolonged resistance” and the “anarchaization” of the capital Caracas. The first prolonged resistance talks of creating a guerilla army that will wage… Read more »