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Through its website, the multilateral organization reiterated its concern about the collapse of the health system in the Palestinian territory, which is under attack by Israel, and called for respect for the work of its teams on the ground.

According to the World Health Organization, more than 10,600 seriously ill patients have been evacuated to date, including 5,600 children, but many need to be transferred to places where they can receive adequate care.

For its part, Gaza Ministry of Health reported that at least 1,092 patients died while awaiting evacuation between July 2024 and November 28, 2025, a figure that could be lower than the actual number.

Recently, UN spokesperson Stepphane Dujarric warned that, despite the ceasefire, reports of airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire continue to arrive, resulting in more casualties and further disruptions to humanitarian operations.

He also noted that, faced with an extreme shortage of shelter, many families are taking refuge in partially or severely damaged buildings to protect themselves from the weather, several of which have collapsed.

The UN reiterated its call for Israel to lift all restrictions on the entry of aid, including shelter materials.

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Beijing calls for U.S. responsibility as the world’s largest nuclear power.

On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian urged the United States to honor its nuclear disarmament commitments and to assume its historical responsibility as the world’s largest nuclear power.

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The remarks came in response to recent Pentagon accusations alleging a large-scale deployment of Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs.

Specifically, Lin rejected the U.S. War Department’s draft report that claims China has deployed more than 100 ICBMs in new silos located in the Inner Mongolia region and that Beijing is unwilling to engage in arms control negotiations.

The Chinese diplomat said he was unaware of the so-called U.S. “internal report” and described the U.S. War Department’s claims as a recurring tactic by Washington to justify the modernization and expansion of its own nuclear arsenal, undermining global strategic stability.

🇯🇵☢️🇨🇳 Japan shuts down nuclear weapons debate – and it’s a bigger move than it looks
This wasn’t weakness. It was strategic control.

If Japan pursued nukes:
▪️ It could spark an arms race
▪️ Strain US alliances
▪️ Escalate tensions across Asia
Sometimes power isn’t in building… pic.twitter.com/gv1RlhXwNG

— Geo Index (@GeoIndex_) December 20, 2025

“Such exaggerations are part of a consistent U.S. strategy to find excuses to accelerate the modernization of its nuclear forces,” Lin said, calling on the international community to clearly understand this dynamic.

He emphasized that, as the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, the United States bears the primary responsibility for undertaking drastic, substantial and verifiable reductions in its nuclear weapons, thereby creating the necessary conditions for other nuclear-armed states to join an effective global disarmament process.

In that context, Lin noted that the Chinese government recently released a white paper titled “China’s Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation in the New Era,” which comprehensively outlines Beijing’s nuclear policy and its position on arms control.

China consistently adheres to a no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons and maintains a strictly defensive nuclear strategy, Lin said and pointed out that China keeps its nuclear capabilities at the minimum level necessary to ensure national security and does not engage, and will not engage, in a nuclear arms race.

Lin added that China actively participates in review processes of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and in dialogue mechanisms of the P5 group, which brings together five nuclear-weapon states, maintaining open channels of communication with all parties on arms control and strategic stability issues.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran denounced the recent IAEA resolution.

It demands immediate information on uranium stockpiles and access to nuclear facilities. pic.twitter.com/TBFswwvYHQ

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 12, 2025

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“Hector Vasconcelos, our ambassador (to the United Nations), will participate. I was speaking with Roberto Velasco, who is now in charge of Foreign Affairs, and he will present a very firm statement of what Mexico always thinks,” the president affirmed.

In a context marked by Washington’s military threats against Caracas, the head of the Executive Branch insisted on her nation’s foreign policy, governed by principles such as non-intervention in states, non-interference, and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

“That will always be our position. We have stated it very forcefully and we will always defend it,” she emphasized. When asked about the announcements made yesterday by US President Donald Trump regarding the construction of a battery of battleships, Sheinbaum recalled the proposal she made in November 2024 at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brazil.

“We made a proposal that we always defend: if one percent of what is spent on armaments worldwide were dedicated to a program like Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life), we would have more than six million participants in the program. We will always defend peace,” she said.

Venezuelan President Nicolámas Maduro urged his counterparts from Latin American and Caribbean nations, as well as from the 194 UN member states, to join forces to contain the US military and piracy threat.

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Caracas, December 23, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – US President Donald Trump made new regime change threats against Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro.

In a Monday press conference, Trump answered “probably” when asked if Washington intended to oust the Venezuelan leader but said it was up to Maduro to leave power.

“That’s up to him what he wants to do. I think it’d be smart for him to do that. But again, we’re gonna find out,” the US president told reporters in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

Trump went on to warn the Venezuelan president not to “play tough.” “If he plays tough, it’ll be the last time he’s ever able to play tough,” he said.

The US president also said that land strikes against alleged drug cartels would start soon. He has issued such a threat on repeated occasions since September. He likewise repeated past unfounded claims that Venezuela sent “millions of people” to the US, many of them prisoners and mental patients.

Trump’s escalated rhetoric against Caracas followed ramped-up efforts to enforce a naval blockade and paralyze Venezuelan oil exports. On Saturday, the US Coast Guard boarded and seized the Centuries tanker east of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea.

The Panama-flagged ship had recently loaded a reported 1.8 million barrels of Merey crude at José terminal in eastern Venezuela for delivery in China. According to maritime vessel sources, the tanker is owned by a Hong Kong company and had transported Venezuelan oil several times in recent years.

The takeover operation was led by the US Coast Guard, with White House officials sharing footage of the boarding on social media.

The Centuries’ seizure followed a similar operation targeting the Skipper tanker on December 10. However, unlike the Skipper, the Centuries was not blacklisted by the US Treasury Department.

US officials referred to the tanker as transporting “sanctioned oil.” Analysts argued that the ambiguous definition is meant to allow US authorities to go after any vessel moving Venezuelan crude in an effort to drive shipping companies away from the Caribbean nation’s oil sector.

The White House’s threats and vessel seizures have already led several tankers to reverse course while en route to Venezuela, while customers are reportedly demanding greater oil discounts in Venezuelan crude purchases. The South American oil industry might soon be forced to cut back production if it runs out of storage space.

On Sunday, US forces attempted to board a third tanker, the Guyana-flagged Bella 1 that was headed to Venezuela to load oil. However, the ship’s captain allegedly refused to allow the US Coast Guard’s boarding and turned the vessel back toward the Atlantic Ocean. According to reports, US forces continue to pursue the Bella 1.

Trump announced a naval blockade while demanding that Venezuela return “oil, land and other assets” that were “stolen,” in reference to nationalizations in past decades. Foreign corporations that saw their assets taken either agreed to compensation or pursued international arbitration.

The tanker seizures, alongside renewed sanctions targeting the Venezuelan oil industry, came amid a massive US military deployment in the Caribbean on the edge of Venezuelan territory. The build-up was originally declared as an anti-narcotics mission before Washington shifted the discourse toward oil and regime-change.

China and Russia express support

The Venezuelan government has condemned the US military threats and attacks against the oil industry. In a communique issued on Saturday, Caracas decried the second tanker seizure as a “serious act of piracy” and vowed to denounce it before multilateral bodies.

In recent days, the Maduro government received backing from China and Russia, two of its most important allies.

In a Monday press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian criticized the tanker seizures as violations of international law and stated Beijing’s opposition to “unilateral and illegal actions.” The official urged a response from the international community.

Likewise on Monday, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil held a phone call with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. According to Gil, Moscow’s top diplomat reiterated support for Venezuela in the face of “US hostilities.”

The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet on Tuesday afternoon at Venezuela’s request to address the most recent US escalations.

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In an official statement, the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua indicated that it had received with deep appreciation a letter outlining the numerous threats and hostile actions faced by the Venezuelan people, as well as Our America as a whole.

The Nicaraguan Executive recognized the commitment to peace of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela and reiterated the unwavering solidarity of the people of Augusto Cesar Sandino with the “heroic and unyielding people of (Simon) Bolivar and (Hugo) Chavez.”

The statement noted that the nation is constantly fighting against the destabilizing attempts of imperialism and its allies, who are opposed to peace, international law, and respect for the sovereignty of free peoples.

Nicaragua also shared the condemnation of acts of aggression, threats, or the use of force against Venezuela’s territorial integrity, as well as actions described as piracy, looting, and theft of the South American country’s natural resources.

The statement also denounced extrajudicial killings considered illegal, even under U.S. law, and demanded an immediate end to all aggression that violates the Charter of the United Nations and international law.

“We are living through extraordinarily difficult times, but we are certain that Venezuela is victorious and will prevail, that our people are victorious and will prevail, because we love peace and walk hand in hand with our Almighty God, defending the rights, progress, and victories achieved,” the text emphasizes.

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According to the institution’s director, Dr. Orestes Lopez Piloto, this is an unprecedented initiative in the Caribbean nation, designed to provide comprehensive care that includes specialized medical evaluation, imaging studies, physical therapy, and pain relief intervention when necessary.

The clinics are led by a multidisciplinary team comprised of neurologists, neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, and physical therapists, in accordance with the current epidemiological situation and the needs of the population, as reported by the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) on its Infomed website.

During the consultation, each patient will be individually evaluated, and according to clinical criteria, CT scans, ultrasounds, and other diagnostic procedures will be performed.

In cases where necessary, anesthetic interventions will be administered for pain management, as well as physiotherapy treatments aimed at improving quality of life and functional recovery.

The specialist emphasized that although the exact number of patients expected to attend this consultation is unknown, the institution is prepared to provide care, as part of the commitment of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) and its hospital network to the comprehensive care of the population.

The strength of the Cuban healthcare system allows for the organization of this type of response, with the goal of contributing to people’s recovery and facilitating their reintegration into their usual activities and work, the doctor stated.

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Its cancellation was political, Journalist Alfonsi denounced.

On Sunday, the CBS TV network pulled down the report “Inside CECOT” hours before its scheduled broadcast in the United States. It was part of their ’60 Minutes’ program, and it documented the torture, sexual, and physical abuse at the Salvadoran prison.

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CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss justified the decision by saying that additional context and more interviews with officials in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump were needed, including Stephen Miller, former White House advisor and architect of the mass deportation policy.

Sharyn Alfonsi, the journalist who worked on the report, argued that the story had been reviewed five times and approved by lawyers and the CBS Standards and Practices department. She denounced that the cancellation was political rather than editorial.

However, the report was broadcast in Canada on Global TV, the network that holds the rights to 60 Minutes in that country, and remained available for two hours before also being taken down. The report quickly went viral on social media through clips shared by users.

Previously, human rights defenders denounced that Venezuelans deported from the U.S. to El Salvador were subjected to torture, sexual violence, and systematic ill-treatment at CECOT, a mega-prison built for gang members.

You can watch the 60 minutes CECOT video here:https://t.co/blLwnf1pOy

— Star Cheeses (@StarCheesee) December 23, 2025

The Trump administration, in agreement with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, transferred 252 Venezuelan migrants between March and April. They were accused, without evidence, of belonging to the Tren de Aragua criminal group, designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.

According to human rights international organizations, the U.S. government paid El Salvador millions of dollars to arbitrarily detain Venezuelans, who were beaten almost daily and held for four months until their repatriation in July through a prisoner exchange between Washington and Caracas.

The abuses were not isolated incidents, but rather systematic human rights violations, including incommunicado detention, insufficient food, and precarious hygiene conditions.

Researchers interviewed 40 detained Venezuelans and another 150 people and documented sexual violence, enforced disappearances, and extreme overcrowding with ten people per windowless cell.

The United States plans to provide military aid to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/xZi7TGXvzJ

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 23, 2025

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The 2026 dry season is expected to make drought conditions worse.

On Monday, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, warned that drought is affecting an estimated more than 4.6 million people in Somalia, around a quarter of the population.

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UN partners indicate that at least 120,000 people were displaced between September and December, as water prices soar, food becomes increasingly scarce, livestock die, and livelihoods collapse.

Dujarric said education has also been severely affected, with more than 75,000 students forced to drop out of school nationwide.

The upcoming dry season between January and March in the country is expected to make drought conditions worse, with increased water scarcity and higher livestock mortality anticipated, potentially intensifying food insecurity in many parts of the country.

Severe drought in Puntland and Somaliland has dried water sources, forcing families to rely on costly water trucking and move livestock to water-rich areas, straining host communities.

The IFRC Water Supply Rehabilitation #EmergencyResponseUnit (WSR/ERU) via @rodekorsnorge is… pic.twitter.com/soRr1Frj3k

— IFRC Africa (@IFRCAfrica) December 23, 2025

Authorities are appealing for urgent assistance to avert a possible collapse of pastoral and farming livelihoods and to prevent avoidable loss of life. They warn that the next four months will be critical, as the next rainy season is not expected until April 2026, said the spokesperson.

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners are mobilized to support assessments, map available supply stocks, and coordinate emergency responses across water, food, nutrition, health and shelter sectors.

Dujarric said the UN Central Emergency Response Fund allocated US$10 million at the end of November, but substantially more support is urgently needed.

Drought reduced ship transit through the Panama Canal by 29 percent. pic.twitter.com/nad3b24qwk

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) October 17, 2024

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The ORSA is the national authority responsible for regulating and monitoring compliance with laws and other legal and technical provisions regarding environmental protection in Cuba, said its Director General, Antonio Casanova.

The agency also oversees chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological safety, as well as environmental protection against pollution, taking into account the priorities of the island nation’s economic and social development.

This entity, belonging to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), prioritizes and ensures the necessary human, material, and financial resources for the various inspection bodies.

It also addresses the control and protection of species of special significance for the country’s biodiversity and the international trade of threatened species of wild fauna and flora.

Likewise, it oversees genetic resources of biological diversity, industrial chemicals, hazardous waste, and technology transfer.

This body, empowered by the Cuban government, also verifies compliance with international commitments undertaken by the Cuban state in all areas of its competence.

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From Gaza to the MOCO Museum: Decoding the symbols of resistance in his visual war.

Banksy is far more than a street artist. He is the pseudonym of one of the most influential and enigmatic visual architects of the 21st century.

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His practice represents a calculated combination of graffiti and stenciling designed to deliver sharp political satire and dark humor. Banksy’s work resonates as a mirror reflecting the deep-seated contradictions of modern society.

The Banksy art functions as a strategic intervention against the “white box” of aristocratic galleries, often placing subversive messages in public spaces where they cannot be ignored by the ruling class.

Whether through immersive experiences like Dismaland—a “park of bewilderment” that parodied the consumerist illusions of Disney—or through murals on the West Bank wall, Banksy uses the street as a weapon.

He forces a global conversation about human vulnerability and resilience in the face of the rigid systems that govern our daily lives.

Gaza par Banksy pic.twitter.com/odBUFMe4nC

— Cerveaux non disponibles (@CerveauxNon) November 25, 2023

Anonymity as a Political Weapon

In an era of surveillance and influencer culture, Banksy’s decision to remain unseen is itself a political statement. Most people chase recognition; Banksy’s face remains a mystery.

Born near Bristol, England, in the 1970s, his exact identity has sparked endless rumors. The speculations—Robin Gunningham, Robert Del Naja, and others—do not matter as much as why he stays hidden.

However, the who is less important than the why. Banksy’s anonymity serves three critical functions:

• Legal distance: Keeping his identity protected helps him push back against accusations of vandalism while keeping a prolific flow of work alive.
• Anti-hero branding: The mystique shifts attention away from the artist and toward the ideas in the art.
• Systemic subversion: Being untraceable allows Banksy to critique financial power in the art world without becoming a sanctioned celebrity.

The portrayal apparently by #BANKSY, depicting the @OrangeOrder as a rat, is remarkably apt. pic.twitter.com/3NLM5h6KmP

— Gerry (@GerryKeogh_) June 21, 2023

Technical Evolution: The Speed of the Subversive

Banksy did not set out to be a museum darling. His path shows a clear shift from raw, hands-on vandalism to calibrated interventions that ride the edge of legality. It is not simply about creating art in public; it’s about transforming every location into a focal point for debate.

• The “Eureka” Moment (1990-1994): In his early years with the DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ) in Bristol, Banksy utilized “freehand” spray techniques. This method proved dangerously slow; during one incident, he was forced to hide under a garbage truck for hours to evade police. While hiding, he observed the stenciled serial numbers on the truck and realized that pre-prepared templates would allow him to execute complex works in seconds.
• The Stencil Era (2000-Present): Since 2000, Banksy has perfected stenciling as his signature technique. He evolved from single-layer designs to multi-layered stencils, using acetate and laser-cut cardboard to achieve near-photographic precision, shadows, and textures.
• Negative Space and Integration: A key part of his maturity is the use of “negative space,” where he incorporates the physical state of the wall—such as rust, cracks, or damp stains—directly into the composition (e.g., a wall crack becoming a river).
• Mixed Media and Conceptual Performance: His toolkit has expanded to include oil painting interventions on flea-market finds, such as adding a supermarket trolley to a classic Monet pond. Most notably, he has integrated mechatronics into his work, exemplified by the remote-activated shredder hidden within the frame of Girl with Balloon.

This evolution is not just about technique. It is about using the city as a stage for political ideas that demand attention.

Banksy street art 😍 pic.twitter.com/tMmrs5Kaxw

— Piotr Wawrzynski (@PiotrWawrzynsk1) December 13, 2025

Symbols of Resistance: Rats, Monkeys, and Children

Banksy repeatedly returns to a small, potent canon of symbols that critique power and push us to see the ordinary as subversive.

• Rats and the working class: A nod to Blek le Rat, Banksy reimagines rats as city workers—carrying umbrellas, briefcases, or simply hustling through the daily grind. The rat becomes a reminder that the marginalized persist inside systems that try to erase them.
• Monkeys and politics: The Devolved Parliament—where primates fill the seats of the House of Commons—pokes fun at the hollowing out of leadership and the spectacle of modern politics.
• Children as hope and vulnerability: The Flower Thrower swaps a Molotov for blossoms to argue for peace over violence. The image of a child signals the fragility of hope in a system that profits from fear.
• The Napalm image with Mickey and Ronald: This juxtaposition targets how American pop culture masks the brutalities of foreign policy.

These symbols are carefully chosen to compress complex critiques into instantly legible images, especially for audiences far from the news desks and think tanks where policy is debated.

#Banksy, #Gaza, #Prision pic.twitter.com/h2CG1i6wBf

— Banksy Art (@BanskyStreetArt) May 22, 2015

Iconic Milestones: Destruction as Creation

Banksy’s career is built on interventions that blur the boundary between vandalism and art, force art markets to confront themselves, and reframe what “culture” looks like when money and power collide.

• The Shredded Girl: In 2018, a painting bought at Sotheby’s self-destructed beneath the gavel, revealing a hidden shredder in the frame. The piece—Girl with Balloon—reframed the conversation about commodification. It turned a would-be sale into a critique of wealth, while paradoxically boosting the piece’s value as a living artwork.
• Dismaland: A somber parody of Disneyland, this temporary park in Weston-super-Mare satirized consumer culture and refugee crises, pushing visitors to acknowledge the darker underbellies of entertainment and state power.
• The Walled Off Hotel: Facing the West Bank barrier, this project in Bethlehem invites the world to witness occupation from a hospitality perspective. By turning a site of control into a space for dialogue, Banksy forces elites to confront the everyday reality of occupation.
• Illegal museum acts: Before selling works in galleries, Banksy installed pieces in major institutions without permission. These acts called out the gatekeeping power of traditional museums and argued that art belongs to people, not to committees.

A new work of art by Banksy has emerged in London. The anonymous artist confirmed this on Instagram💜 pic.twitter.com/PcvlHDxBJb

— Ingeborg Horemans (@Horemans20) December 22, 2025

MOCO Museum and the Institutional Dilemma

The MOCO Museum in Barcelona hosts Banksy’s Disrupted Power, staged in Palau Cervelló, a 16th-century aristocratic palace in the El Born district. The pairing of Banksy’s anti-establishment imagery with a building that embodies centuries of wealth creates a deliberate clash: the radical in a place that has historically protected the elite.

• Authenticity in an age of replicas: Pest Control, Banksy’s official authenticity service, verifies each piece. This keeps the show anchored in the artist’s intent, even as it travels through a museum ecosystem.
• Curatorial goal: The MOCO team frames the exhibition as a way to spark a global conversation about vulnerability and resilience. It is about highlighting the systems that govern our lives and under what conditions people resist them.
• Key pieces on display: Happy Choppers (Crude Oil) (2024) imagines helicopters invading peaceful landscapes; Bullet Hole Bust (2006) reworks a classical bust with a gunshot; Laugh Now Panel B (2002) features the monkey with a sly warning about who will lead tomorrow.

Is this still “Banksy the rebel,” or has resistance become a curated experience?

Banksy at Moco Museum pic.twitter.com/bXoNebwEEP

— Aleema (@DevaAleema) October 19, 2023

Can Resistance be Exhibited?

The museum setting poses a core paradox: can a radical message withstand institutionalization? Critics like art historian Avelina Lésper argue that moving Banksy into the gallery system surrenders the raw energy of vandalism, trading it for VIP status and market value. The art becomes a collectible rather than a call to action.

Yet another reading sees the MOCO project as part of Banksy’s broader “Disruptive Power.” By entering elite spaces, Banksy compels the art world to confront anti-capitalism, surveillance, and militarism.

The curators want the audience to confront human vulnerability and resilience, to see how these forces shape our lives in everyday ways.

Banksy is still a mirror—one that holds up the cracks in the neoliberal façade for all to see. Whether you label him a genius rebel or a savvy marketer, his work continues to provoke, to question, and to mobilize.

In a world where the marginalized are often ignored, Banksy’s stencils keep the conversation alive.

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A statement from the international organization highlights that, in the latest humanitarian evacuation, which took place on December 11, 122 refugees arrived in Rome, mainly from Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea.

Furthermore, Italy “has led emergency evacuations from Libya and Niger, ensuring the safety of refugees living in extremely difficult conditions,” the statement, published by the UNHCR office in Italy, notes.

Since 2016, a coalition of Italian religious organizations launched and funded the Humanitarian Corridors project to resettle the most vulnerable refugees from Ethiopia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Türkiye, Libya, Niger, and Iran, the document notes.

UNHCR highlighted the importance of these initiatives, which underscore how resettlement and similar programs can offer vulnerable refugees a fresh start at a time when people are increasingly displaced globally and many asylum seekers and migrants are undertaking perilous journeys.

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The Government Press Office in the coastal enclave stated in a press release that during that period, the Israeli Armed Forces committed 875 ceasefire violations.

The figure includes 265 shootings, 49 incursions by military vehicles into residential areas, 421 bombings of civilians, and 150 attacks on civilian institutions and buildings, as well as 45 illegal detentions.

Such actions constitute a clear violation of international law and a deliberate undermining of the essence of the truce and the provisions of the attached humanitarian protocol, the statement warned.

The Office accused the neighboring country of evading its obligations under the agreement and humanitarian protocol by preventing the entry of the agreed-upon minimum amounts of aid into Gaza.

In the last 73 days, only 17,819 trucks arrived out of the 43,800 that were supposed to enter, with a daily average of only 244 instead of the 600 planned, it emphasized.

As an example, it cited that only 394 fuel trucks arrived in the Strip out of the 3,650 promised, a situation that has paralyzed hospitals, bakeries, and water and sewage stations.

Regarding the housing sector, it warned of a profound and unprecedented crisis due to the prohibition on the entry of tents, mobile homes, caravans, and shelter materials needed to mitigate the effects of the systematic destruction of buildings in the enclave by the aggression.

Israel is fully responsible for the continued deterioration of the humanitarian situation and the lives lost, it stated.

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This new crime is seriously endangering the lives of tens of thousands of sick and wounded people, Alaa Halas, director of the Ministry’s Department of Care and Pharmacy warned.

Some 10,000 surgical operations are threatened with being halted due to the shortage of supplies and medicines needed to perform them, he told the Safa news agency.

Halas stated that the crisis in hospitals has reached unprecedented levels in the coastal enclave.

Several of the health centers that survived the Israeli attack have suspended scheduled and emergency surgeries, including the Kuwait Specialized Hospital, which serves thousands of patients and the wounded, he emphasized.

Even emergency operations will be seriously affected if the shortage continues, he stressed.

The official noted that since the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip went into effect on October 10, Israel has only allowed 30% of the agreed-upon supplies to enter.

This crisis threatens some 200,000 patients, including 700 who receive treatment in intensive care units each month and about 10,000 who need surgery, he explained.

According to the Government Press Office, since the truce began, only 17,819 aid trucks have arrived out of the 43,800 that were supposed to enter, averaging just 244 per day instead of the 600 planned.

As an example, he cited that only 394 fuel trucks have arrived in the Gaza Strip out of the 3,650 promised, a situation that has paralyzed hospitals, bakeries, and water and sewage stations.

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Russian presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov, in providing this information on Tuesday, emphasized that it will help determine the acceptability of the new version of the plan prepared jointly with Kiev and its European allies for Moscow.

Ushakov previously stated that Moscow was awaiting Dmitriev’s return so he could inform Putin about the discussions in Miami.

A few hours ago, Dmitriev himself announced his departure from the United States after two days of negotiations on resolving the conflict in Ukraine.

On the US side, the talks were attended by presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law, businessman Jared Kushner.

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Experts say his proposal cannot be implemented in the short term due to technical, financial, and industrial limitations.

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will build two new “Trump-Class” warships, which will be “the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”

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Speaking at a news conference alongside War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Navy Secretary John Phelan, Trump said he has approved a plan for the Navy to begin construction on two of the largest battleships the United States has ever built.

He added that eight more would be built soon after and that the total number of new battleships would eventually reach between 20 and 25.

Trump said the warships would have a displacement of 30,000 to 40,000 tons and would be equipped with hypersonic weapons, railguns, cruise missiles and laser weapons. He said they would become the flagship vessels of the U.S. Navy fleet.

Phelan said the “Trump-class battleship” would become the largest, most lethal, most fully functional and most aesthetically pleasing battleship in the world.

Trump, Hegseth announce new ‘Golden Fleet’ battleships for the Navy#navy #battleship #goldenfleet #Trump #Hegseth pic.twitter.com/hz7LUoPfR4

— Military Times (@MilitaryTimes) December 23, 2025

Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for what he has called a “Golden Fleet,” defense specialists warned that the project faces serious technical, financial and operational limitations that cast doubt on its viability.

The U.S. president said the first of the new-generation battleships could enter service in about two and a half years. Experts, however, said that timeline is unrealistic for designing, building and bringing a military vessel into operation.

In fact, the War Department later said the first ship is currently in the design phase and could be completed in the early 2030s.

Doubts about Trump’s optimistic plans deepen when considering that current U.S. naval programs are already experiencing delays of at least one year and that shipyards are struggling to recruit and retain skilled labor.

In response, the U.S. president said he will meet next week with executives from defense-sector companies to pressure them to invest in the construction of new industrial facilities.

Another key obstacle is financing. The current Pentagon budget does not include sufficient resources to cover the high cost of the announced plans.

Trump just approved a record $901 billion military budget for 2026 –– even more than what his administration had originally requested.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still homeless, classrooms are overcrowded and underfunded, and millions are about to lose… pic.twitter.com/fr6dvsif1T

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Bryan Clark, a former Navy officer and now an analyst at the Hudson Institute, warned that developing a new class of ships with highly complex technologies would require extraordinary spending. He said that without prematurely retiring existing vessels — an option not included in the presidential proposal — there would not be enough funding to sustain the project.

Mark Montgomery, a former Navy officer and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the initiative poses a massive challenge in terms of long-term maintenance costs. In his view, sustaining supply chains, support systems and the training required for multiple classes of small ships could strain the Navy’s budget for decades.

Representatives of the defense industry also expressed concern about the scale of the planned work. According to preliminary information, the new battleships would simultaneously incorporate technologies that have never before been integrated into a single vessel.

These include the ability to launch hypersonic missiles, generate sufficient power for laser weapons and operate electromagnetic railguns — a combination of systems that adds technical complexity and further increases costs and development timelines.

In a report titled “The Return of Battleships,” outlet Rybar said U.S. naval shipbuilding faces enormous problems and that the country cannot quickly build such “battleships,” whose cost would be so colossal that it would be enormous even for the U.S. military budget.

The outlet also noted that the crisis in U.S. shipyards is so severe that the country is already experiencing significant difficulties with the new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier program.

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A statement from the Spanish Foreign Ministry demanded the revocation of this measure by the Tel Aviv authorities in the strongest terms.

“The Government of Spain reiterates its condemnation of the expansion of settlements, illegal under international law, and of any initiative to impede the implementation of the two-state solution, the only path to lasting peace in the region,” the statement said.

It added Spain’s deep concern about the extremely serious situation in the West Bank, where the escalating violence by settlers against the Palestinian population and their livelihoods, facilitated by impunity, military operations, and the expansionist policy of the Israeli government, are clear obstacles to peace.

Days ago, an international NGO lamented that despite the ceasefire and modest improvements in humanitarian access and food availability, hunger in Gaza is a threat to the entire population.

According to the source, 75% of the population suffers from acute hunger (phase 3 of the Food Poverty Index or higher), while the rest face chronic food deprivation.

The humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger, Spain chapter, pointed out that this situation is exacerbated by extreme weather conditions and damage to infrastructure, with heavy rains in recent days devastating the camps for displaced people.

The shelters were flooded, destroying basic belongings and leaving many people exposed to low temperatures and further emergencies.

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This article by Dulce Olvera originally appeared in the December 22, 2025 edition of Sin Embargo.

Mexico City. Union leaders from the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), Mexican Petroleum Workers Union (STPRM), the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants (CROC), and the Railway Workers Union (STFRM) have joined the government project of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

In the recent events organized by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo in the Zócalo of Mexico City, on October 5 for the First Year of Government and on December 6 for the Seven Years of Transformation, the leaders of these unions have mobilized their bases to mark their presence in the plaza with symbols such as flags and zeppelins, political operations that they used to do for events of the PRI, formerly Mexico’s hegemonic party.

“We are against the corporatism that existed throughout the PRI era,” President Sheinbaum stated one day after her government report in the Zócalo of the capital, in response to a direct question about the massive presence of union, peasant, worker and business organizations.

Corporatism – a product of the political pact between the Lázaro Cárdenas government and labour unions – was one of the structural pillars of the PRI regime, and that regime used it to benefit protected businessmen at the expense of workers’ wages, writes SinEmbargo columnist and political scientist Javier Romero Vadillo.

During the so-called Fourth Transformation, the minimum wage has increased by 154 percent since 2018, which resulted – along with social programs – in 13.5 million people leaving the poverty level.

But the 40HorasYa collective accuses Pedro Haces, a Morena party congressman and union leader of CATEM —a friend of magnate Carlos Slim—of pushing for the gradual reduction of the workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030, which puts Mexico behind other countries like Chile in this area. CATEM, accused of running extortion rings in Durango and Sonora, has also been present at both presidential events, as has the Mexican Electrical Workers Union.

The Ministry of Labor promoted the labour reform in 2019 to guarantee free and democratic elections in unions to prevent leaders from being re-elected and illicitly enriching themselves as happened with the teachers’ union leader Elba Esther Gordillo – who even formed her own political party – or the oil union leader Carlos Romero Deschamps, who died with impunity.

Senator and head of SNTE, Alfonso Cepeda Salas, whose appointment as unelected Senator allows him to benefit from immunity from corruption investigations, seated with Delfina Gómez Álvarez, Governor of Mexico State who has proposed to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65 and an advanced age retirement from age 67 to 70.

SNTE vs CNTE

The SNTE teachers’ union leader and Morena Senator, Alfonso Cepeda Salas, has a seat in the Senate, as was previously the case with PRI-affiliated charro leaders like Carlos Aceves del Olmo of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), whose assembly this year was inaugurated by the Secretary of Labour, Marath Bolaños.

The leader and member of the Morena party controls the movement’s narrative and even reprimands dissidents who call for a strike. During the Teacher’s Day event, he stated, in the presence of President Claudia Sheinbaum:

“In the National Union of Education Workers, we fight for better living conditions, for more and better economic, health, and social security benefits, for professional development and advancement, but we also fight for the well-being and progress of the people, for the education of all Mexicans. We transcend labor representation to participate in the consolidation of a popular national project with a clear sense of justice in favor of those who have the least,” he said.

As part of the massive membership drive promoted by the Morena leadership, union leader Cepeda Salas pledged to enroll more than 1.5 million of the 2.5 million teachers in the SNTE (National Union of Education Workers). He stated that by September of this year, the goal had been expanded to 5 million teachers, their families, and friends by the end of the next school year.

“The teaching profession is diverse; we have members from all parties, but many are convinced they should join Morena, and we will facilitate their affiliation,” Cepeda told the press in February. “I believe we can convince 1.5 million of them; we can convince the rest, but it’s a medium- to long-term process… But teachers have families, friends, they spread out, and we believe we can contribute 5.5 million, not immediately, but within the time we have to convince them to join.”

In contrast, teachers from the dissident National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) carried out various blockades and demonstrations this year in their strongholds such as Oaxaca, Michoacán and Mexico City to demand a dignified retirement and question the enrichment of the owners of the AFORES pension funds, a tripartite neoliberal retirement model.

They even threatened blockades on the eve of the judicial election on June 1 and again threatened protests to disrupt the organization of the 2026 World Cup.

Deschamps’s Heir

That Sunday, October 5, during President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first State of the Union address, photographs from the federal government show a white zeppelin floating in the front row with the name “Ricardo Aldana,” that is, the Pemex union leader, protégé of the corrupt union leader Carlos Romero Deschamps, and who participated in the Pemexgate scandal when he was the union’s treasurer.

The labor reform proposes a free and secret vote in unions, but Aldana’s election in 2022 and re-election in 2024 have been criticized by dissident oil workers for reproducing the same vices of corporatism.

A zeppelin belonging to Ricardo Aldana, leader of the Pemex union linked to the Pemexgate scandal, on October 5, 2025, during the first State of the Union address by President Claudia Sheinbaum. Balloons from the CATEM union fly nearby. Photo: Jessica Ramírez, Presidency.

Alan Aldape, a worker at the Cadereyta Refinery, asserted on the eve of the reelection that Aldana’s group is a union mafia that should be investigated by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), since although thousands of workers pay union dues, they don’t even have access to profit sharing. He predicted, as indeed happened, that Aldana would be reelected because the union is both judge and jury in the organization, counting, and registration of votes in the election, and has the necessary resources and a large workforce.

In the 2022 election, when she replaced Romero Deschamps, union leaders from various sections pressured oil workers to send proof of their vote for Aldana, according to WhatsApp messages and audio recordings. There were also reports of voter transportation at both Aldana’s campaign closing event and on election day to “guarantee her victory.”

The energy-focused media outlet Global Energy reported this December that companies linked to the sons of Pemex union leader Ricardo and Luis Antonio Aldana Patrón have obtained contracts from the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) or the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) to sell diesel in 2023 and 2024 on behalf of the Sonora-based company Gas Azul de Nogales.

Mexicans and MORENA members alike were shocked earlier this year when right winger Adrián Rubalcava was appointed to head the Mexico City metro, one of the world’s most important public transit systems, given his total lack of experience with public transportation, allegations swirling about his involvement with organized crime and a record of fiscal incompetence, but he and his were already appearing at Sheinbaum campaign events in May of 2024.

Balloons from the Dragons, the political group of Adrián Rubalcava, former mayor of Cuajimalpa and current director of the Metro, also flew over the presidential events, as did balloons from CATEM, the union of the controversial Pedro Haces. Business owners from the Laguna region and Sonora accuse CATEM of extortion, but Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch exonerated Haces.

“What we like is that people arrive individually,” President Sheinbaum stated in October from the National Palace.

But union leaders once again ensured group attendance on Saturday, December 6. The SNTE, led by Morena party member Alfonso Cepeda, again displayed orange flags and distributed lunches in single-use plastic containers. In the morning press conference following the “Tiger March,” the president reiterated:

“We have always been against any bribe in exchange for participating in an event. It should not happen (…) we will never approve of it, it is not the way we act nor the way we use to call for a mobilization.”

On Saturday, December 6, the initials of the CROC, the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants, one of the PRI’s union arms, also stood out in red. It had been led since 2005 by Isaías González Cuevas, a PRI legislator until 2021. In August 2025, Mario Machuca Sánchez, the CROC union leader in Cancún, was murdered.

Dulce Olvera is a reporter covering climate crisis, human rights, and economic issues. She co-hosts Dos con Todo with Monserrat Antúnez on SinEmbargo al Aire*.*

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  Labor | News Briefs

  Mexican Unions Formerly Affiliated with PRI are now with MORENA

  December 23, 2025

  President Sheinbaum has rejected corporatism and the bussing in of supporters, yet charro unions maintain a massive presence at government events in the Mexico City’s Zócalo.

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  Culture | Labor | News Briefs

  Land of the Godínez: Work, Obedience & Dispossession in Contemporary Mexico

  December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

  José Baroja’s satire is, in reality, pure sociology: the expression of an economic order & labour regime in Mexico that normalizes long hours, insufficient wages, constant evaluations, identity loss and the sacrifice of a personal life.

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  Analysis

  Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City

  December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

  Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.

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A Federal court orders plan to allow migrants to return or challenge deportations.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump denied due process to nearly 200 Venezuelans it deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a high-security prison in El Salvador.

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Boasberg gave the Trump administration until Jan. 5 to present a plan to allow the immigrants to return to the U.S. or to be given the opportunity to defend their cases before a judge.

The judge also certified a class-action lawsuit, clearing the way for all migrants sent to CECOT in March to challenge their designation as enemies of the United States.

Trump invoked the 1789 Alien Enemies Act, a law used in wartime, to send the Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, accusing them — without presenting evidence — of belonging to Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang designated as a terrorist organization.

“This court declares that the plaintiffs should not have been expelled in the manner in which they were, virtually without notice and without an opportunity to challenge the basis for their removal, in clear contravention of their due process rights,” Boasberg wrote in his ruling.

You can watch the 60 minutes CECOT video here:https://t.co/blLwnf1pOy

— Star Cheeses (@StarCheesee) December 23, 2025

The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward, which argued that the deportation was illegal and that El Salvador imprisoned the Venezuelans in exchange for payment.

“Expedited removal cannot be permitted to nullify habeas corpus. If the mere act of secretly transferring people to another country were enough to extinguish habeas corpus, then ‘the government could kidnap anyone off the street, hand them over to a foreign country and thereby foreclose any possibility of legal recourse,’” Boasberg said in his decision.

The case related to the Alien Enemies Act has placed the Trump administration under scrutiny for exposing violations of due process protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

After months of pressure from the immigrants’ families, the Venezuelans were sent back to their home country in July as part of an exchange between the United States and the Bolivarian government led by President Nicolas Maduro.

Boasberg is also investigating whether the Trump administration officials violated a court order he issued barring deportation flights to El Salvador.

BREAKING: CBS just pulled its own 60 Minutes report exposing torture at El Salvador’s CECOT prison, a facility where Venezuelans were secretly sent instead of deported.

Bari Weiss now runs CBS.

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— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) December 21, 2025

In November, Boasberg said he would call at least two people connected to the case to testify: Erez Reuveni, a Justice Department whistleblower who was fired, and Drew Ensign, a DOE attorney whom Reuveni accused of misleading the court about the migrant flights.

In his first opinion, spanning more than 40 pages, the judge accused the executive branch of having ignored with “complete disregard” a court order instructing it to reverse the transfer of migrants to the Central American country.

“The Constitution does not tolerate the intentional disobedience of judicial orders, especially by officials who have sworn to uphold it,” Boasberg wrote in his April ruling.

Over the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador, the White House is also engaged in another legal dispute involving Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was expelled along with the Venezuelans and later returned to the United States by court order.

In her daily morning #pressconference, the President of #Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, condemned the criminalization of #migrants, stating that the best way to reduce mass migration is to #invest in the countries of origin. pic.twitter.com/gjFsOy90FM

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 18, 2025

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This article by Diana Osorio originally appeared in the December 17, 2025 edition of Rebelión.

In Godín, José Baroja, the Chilean-Mexican writer whose Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos has given us so much to talk about, offers a scene that, far from being exaggerated, resonates with the starkness of a mirror: a boss welcoming his new employee with the phrase, “Your body and soul belong to us.” Jaime, the protagonist, smiles and thanks him. The fiction here is not artifice; it is a lucid—and brutal—synthesis of the Mexican labor economy. The story lays bare the logic that sustains the current job market: a system that demands loyalty without reciprocity, sacrifice without justice, and discipline without rights.

The figure of the godín, so commonly used to describe the typical office worker, masks a deeper reality: a process of workplace domestication experienced by millions. This is not merely a cultural or humorous phenomenon; it is the expression of an economic order that normalizes long hours, insufficient wages, constant evaluations, loss of identity, and a growing sacrifice of personal life. What Baroja narrates as satire is, in reality, pure sociology.

Precariousness has been legitimized to the point of becoming commonplace. In a country where more than half the workforce lives in the informal sector and where having a job doesn’t guarantee escaping poverty, Jaime clings to his job like someone trying to survive a shipwreck by grasping at a drifting plank. But the plank belongs to the same sinking ship. The fantasy of security associated with formal employment persists as a national myth, even when daily experience proves otherwise: temporary contracts, dismissals without severance pay, denied benefits, constant surveillance, and bureaucracy normalized even for going to the bathroom.

Forced gratitude is one of the most perverse pillars of the Mexican labor system, where workers learn to be grateful for the bare minimum.

The story accurately illustrates how this symbolic violence is internalized. Jaime not only accepts the conditions, he is grateful for them. This forced gratitude is one of the most perverse pillars of the Mexican labor system, where workers learn to be grateful for the bare minimum: the possibility of continuing to work, the privilege of having a place to exhaust themselves, the opportunity to sacrifice their time in exchange for a salary that barely sustains survival. Gratitude, in this context, is a form of control.

Baroja also denounces, without subtlety, the structural inequality that permeates the labor market. The statement “if you’re a woman, Indigenous, or an Indigenous woman, you’re screwed even more” serves as a reminder that employment in Mexico is not only precarious: it is profoundly discriminatory. Access to decent work varies according to origin, gender, and class, and the most vulnerable sectors bear the burden of double or triple precarity as if it were an inevitable fate.

The story’s ending—Jaime’s death in his cubicle, the empty funeral, the company untouched—encapsulates an uncomfortable truth: the worker is expendable, replaceable, disposable. The company remains; the boss remains; the employee disappears without a trace. In a country where individual efforts are rarely recognized and where labour rights are treated as concessions rather than guarantees, Jaime’s silent death becomes a national allegory.

What Godín presents is more than a critique of the corporate world. It’s a call to question the very structure of work in Mexico: a system that consumes bodies and time without restoring dignity, that demands obedience while degrading life, that rewards submission and punishes insight. Jaime’s life—which could be that of any worker in Guadalajara, in the Valley of Mexico, or on the northern border—is the story of a country that has turned precarity into the norm and sacrifice into a civic virtue.

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Because it’s not just about bad working conditions: it’s about an economic model that thrives on the exhaustion of its own people. A model that hides its violence behind rhetoric of “commitment,” “team spirit,” and “wearing the company colors.” A model that demands total dedication while offering mere crumbs. A model that, if left unchallenged, will continue to produce thousands of Jaimes: worn-out, grateful, invisible workers, willing to offer their bodies and souls in exchange for a security that never arrives.

Baroja’s story thus functions as a warning. Not about the future, but about the present. Not about an isolated case, but about the majority condition. As long as we accept that precariousness is normal, that exploitation is part of the national character, and that work must be experienced as a sacrifice, Jaime’s story will continue to repeat itself under bright office lights, in windowless cubicles, in endless workdays where workers confuse loyalty with survival.

The political challenge lies in this repetition: to break the normalization of burnout, to question the rules of the labor game, and to reclaim the basic right to a life not consumed by the utility of others. Where Jaime gives his soul, perhaps the country can—if it dares—recover its own.

You can read Godín by José Baroja in Reforma Siglo XXI, the Quarterly Magazine of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León No. 3, Year X, No. 38.

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  Labor | News Briefs

  Mexican Unions Formerly Affiliated with PRI are now with MORENA

  December 23, 2025

  President Sheinbaum has rejected corporatism and the bussing in of supporters, yet charro unions maintain a massive presence at government events in the Mexico City’s Zócalo.

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  Culture | Labor | News Briefs

  Land of the Godínez: Work, Obedience & Dispossession in Contemporary Mexico

  December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

  José Baroja’s satire is, in reality, pure sociology: the expression of an economic order & labour regime in Mexico that normalizes long hours, insufficient wages, constant evaluations, identity loss and the sacrifice of a personal life.

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  Analysis

  Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City

  December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

  Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.

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A tax reform project aims to cover debts accumulated from previous mandates.

On Monday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared a 30-day economic emergency through Decree 1390, following Congress’s rejection of the tax reform project on December 9.

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The measure aimed to raise US$4.29 billion to complete the 2026 national budget, and the Executive branch explained that it will allow for the creation of new taxes or the modification of existing ones to guarantee essential public services and rights.

Petro defended the declaration of emergency, arguing that Colombia has carried a primary deficit since the administration of former President Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), which has weakened national public finances.

He also criticized Congress for twice rejecting the tax reform and the Central Bank for maintaining the benchmark interest rate at 9.25% since April. Petro stated that these decisions make it impossible to stop the unsustainable debt and increase the country’s economic vulnerability.

¡Claro que sí hay una Emergencia Económica! Recuerden que unos pocos congresistas bloquearon el cobro de impuestos a los mega ricos de Colombia porque ellos los financian y para no dejar trabajar al gobierno del Cambio.
Por eso vamos a renovar al congreso este 2026.
Soy el número… pic.twitter.com/eXtA6Cj9Gg

— maximonoriega_ (@Maximo_NoriegaR) December 23, 2025

The text reads, “Of course there is an economic emergency! Remember that a few members of Congress blocked the collection of taxes from Colombia’s mega-rich because they finance the institution, and to prevent the government from doing its job. That’s why we’re going to renew Congress in 2026.”

Petro warned that if the Constitutional Court annuls the decree, the country’s risk rate will rise and the unsustainable debt will lead to a serious economic crisis. He insists that the resources must come from the ultra-wealthy, who have benefited from the current policy.

The new taxes represent a minimal return of these enormous benefits obtained by the rich. The rejected reform was the third presented by Petro; the first was approved in 2022, and the other was refuted in 2024.

The opposition accuses the Petro administration of allegedly squandering state resources and argues that, instead of new tax reforms, it should reduce high public spending. However, the Colombian president insists that the reform aims to cover debts accumulated from previous mandates.

#FromTheSouth News Bits | Colombia: The government issued a strong warning to the international community, rejecting any attempt to use foreign military force on its territory. pic.twitter.com/bCKhrf3BNJ

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This editorial by Luis Hernández Navarro was originally published in the December 23, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The views expressed in this article are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of Mexico Solidarity Media*, or the* Mexico Solidarity Project*.*

There are times when art anticipates reality. To better understand the rampant urbanization in Mexico that is currently devastating the residents of Milpa Alta, it is worth watching the film Hands Over the City, by Italian film director Francesco Rosi.

Sixty-two years ago, in this film, Rosi told the story of a city that grows barbarously and gets rid of the “old” in order to “modernize” Naples. In a clandestine scheme, politicians, businesspeople, and public officials make huge profits by building new housing on agricultural land, altering municipal development plans, and increasing land values.

Rosi tells a story of corruption, bribery, fraudulent land rezoning, favoritism, and kickbacks. Without ambiguity, she portrays the implementation of a politics devoid of ethical principles, political parties that serve as real estate brokers, the lack of urban development policies, and the clash between public goods and private interests. Although the film is set in Naples, it could just as easily take place in Milpa Alta.

Rod Steiger in Francesco Rossi’s Hands over the City (1963)

Milpa Alta is one of the boroughs that make up Mexico City. Nine Indigenous and other communities live and work there, identifying themselves as descendants of the city’s founders. Despite being in the heart of the city, they maintain vibrant normative systems, local culture, and a system of communal decision-making. For the past 55 years, they have withstood rampant urbanization driven by the name of “progress.”

Throughout this time, community members and residents have faced numerous challenges. In the 1970s, they successfully fought to conserve their forests and water against the Loreto and Peña Pobre paper mill. They reclaimed their agrarian organizations and ousted illegitimate representatives. The people vividly remember the resistance of the 1970s and 80s, when the National Coordinating Committee of the Plan de Ayala (CNPA) was founded in Milpa Alta. In an episode worthy of a contemporary Fuenteovejuna, in 1980, Daniel Chícharo, a community representative from Milpa Alta, a man both feared and despised, was set on fire by community members during a meeting. He died a few hours later.

The most recent episode in this ongoing conflict between the interests of real estate developers and the residents defending their land and territory took place at noon on December 21st. That day, a minority group attempted to force a closed-door extraordinary assembly in the town square of San Francisco Tecoxpa. Their objective was to approve the Cablebús Line 6 project by a show of hands.

Milpa Alta is noted as being one of the only boroughs in Mexico City without any transnational retail chains, where land use is determined by community assembly of its citizens.

As denounced by the original members of the Milpa Alta Indigenous Agrarian Community, the meeting was not a community assembly, but a sham. It was convened illegally, without legitimate representation, and in blatant violation of Article 27 of the Constitution, the Agrarian Law, and the agrarian community’s bylaws. They point out that today there is no legal representation that can convene an assembly of community members. Therefore, what occurred was not an assembly, but an imposition.

According to Carlos González, the community’s legal advisor for many years, the entire process was flawed from the start. He says, “The approval of the protocol on December 10th, without the community’s knowledge, was a farce. The informational phase took place on December 15th. It lasted barely two hours. The assembly was neither convened nor publicized.”

He explains: “What hurts the residents who oppose the Cablebús the most is that Milpa Alta is made up of nine towns and has a dual character: indigenous and communal. Regarding land ownership, according to Article 27 of the Constitution, only the general assembly of communal landowners from the nine towns of Milpa Alta can decide the fate of their lands. But the government denies this right. They say no, they only want the Indigenous consultation, which the communal landowners consider a sham.”

Community members were attacked by security forces while trying to attend the illegal, closed-door meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line.

And –he adds– “in the indigenous sector, the government has created convenient interlocutors and traditional authorities. The correct course of action would be to consult the community of Milpa Alta, made up of its nine villages.”

The alleged representative of San Francisco Tecoxpa, one of the nine communal villages, is Luis Linares. He was the one who convened the spurious assembly last Sunday. He presents himself as an auxiliary communal representative, but no one knows how he obtained his appointment. No one remembers an assembly being held to appoint him. In 2018, Don Julián Flores, the general representative of the nine villages, died. At that time, Linares impersonated the general representative, but the District 8 Unitary Agrarian Court rejected his claim.

The community members allege that Linares has enriched himself by managing forestry brigades that receive funding from CORENA and are staffed by ghost employees. These ghost employees and their families, along with other beneficiaries of various government programs, were forced to attend the assembly on the 21st. Furthermore, he controls taxi stands and street vendors. He is allied with Mayor Octavio Rivero Villaseñor, a figure who, to put it mildly, has generated much controversy.

The proposed land-use plan that was attempted two years ago in Milpa Alta, but which was halted by the community, indicated, based on various studies, that if the mass transit infrastructure network expands (as would be the case with the Cablebús), the land use coefficient (CUS) would increase from 0.2 to 2.4. This represents a projected 400 percent increase in construction. Increasing building density in this way would lead to uncontrolled urban sprawl and the destruction of remaining rural areas.

In the words of one community member, the Cablebús is not a mobility project, it’s an urbanization project. Milpa Alta is today the Nahuatl version of Francesco Rosi’s film Hands Over the City.

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  Analysis

  Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City

  December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

  Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.

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  Tlalpan & Coyoacán Residents Call for Action Plan Against 2026 World Cup Effects

  December 22, 2025

  Dubious claims of a “Social World Cup” notwithstanding, Mexico City residents say the upcoming World Cup must be met by a Plan which organizes popular defense of the territory.

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  Milpa Alta, The Mexico City Borough with No Retail Chains

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  An oasis without predatory transnational chains, where 90% of land is communally owned, and decisions are made in communal assemblies.

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Managua denounces U.S. piracy and calls for an end to foreign interference.

On Monday, Nicaragua reiterated its firm support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution in the face of constant aggression, threats and destabilization attempts promoted by the United States and its allies.

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In a message of solidarity sent to Caracas, Managua strongly condemned acts of piracy, plunder and theft of Venezuela’s natural resources; threats to use force against the country’s territorial integrity; and illegal extrajudicial killings carried out by the United States.

Nicaraguan co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo expressed their recognition of the Bolivarian government’s commitment to peace and denounced actions that undermine Venezuela’s sovereignty and the stability of Latin America.

The statement confirmed that Nicaragua received with deep appreciation a letter sent by President Maduro, in which he warned of the multiple aggressions and threats facing Venezuela in a context marked by foreign interference, political coercion, and disregard for international law.

Since August, the US has amassed military assets in the Caribbean to target Venezuela while also launching a campaign of extra-judicial executions.

Check out our interactive infographic to learn morehttps://t.co/koVf9NBBdd

— Venezuelanalysis (@venanalysis) December 23, 2025

“The people of Sandino reaffirm their unwavering solidarity with the heroic and unyielding people of Bolivar and Chavez,” Ortega and Murillo said, underscoring Venezuelan resistance to destabilization efforts that seek to undermine peace, self-determination and the sovereignty of free peoples.

Managua called for the immediate cessation of all aggressions, which it described as violations of the United Nations Charter and the fundamental principles of international law. Ortega and Murillo also reaffirmed the right of peoples to live without interference or external coercion.

In their letter, the Nicaraguan leaders said that despite the difficult times facing the region, Venezuela and the Latin American peoples will prevail because the defense of peace, dignity and sovereignty is rooted in the historical and spiritual conviction of peoples who struggle for independence.

“Today, as always, we keep intact our support for the right of our peoples to live in sovereignty, independence, identity, dignity and well-being,” Ortega and Murillo said, invoking the historical legacy of symbols of anti-imperialist resistance such as Andres Castro, Benjamin Zeledon and Augusto Sandino.

The message concludes by reaffirming Nicaragua’s commitment to defending life, peace and prosperity for the peoples of Latin American and the Caribbean, and by reiterating its support for the Bolivarian Revolution under the historic banners of unity and shared struggle.

#FromTheSouth News Bits | Venezuela: The Foreign Ministry accused United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio of promoting an agenda of destabilization to control the Bolivarian country's natural resources. pic.twitter.com/A0M6ItSkux

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 23, 2025

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This article by Enrique Méndez and Emir Olivares originally appeared in the December 23, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

The shipment of oil from Mexico to Cuba is for humanitarian reasons and is part of “the agreements that have been made on this matter” by all governments, regardless of the political party, and is done “within a legal framework, as a sovereign country, continuing a series of historically provided support,” stated President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

In the President’s morning press conference, she reported that she received a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that includes energy and financial cooperation between the two countries.

Thus, she mentioned that in 1994, during the “special period” in Cuba – the economic crisis that broke out in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union – an investment of 350 million dollars was formalized for the modernization of the Cienfuegos refinery, “a strategic swap operation ”, that is, an exchange of debt for investment.

Then, in 2012, letters of intent were signed for Pemex to provide technical assistance to the Cuban state oil company CUPET, which allowed for its presence in the exploration projects it carried out with international consortia, he said.

She recalled that in that year, the administration of former President Enrique Peña Nieto “forgave the debt that the government of Havana had with PEMEX and 70 percent of the historical liability with Bancomext (National Bank of Foreign Trade); the rest was restructured to promote bilateral exchange.”

The information includes a chronology of Mexican and Cuban presidential meetings, from the first visit – after the triumph of the Cuban revolution – of Luis Echeverría Álvarez to the island, in August 1975. “José López Portillo visited Havana; Fidel Castro also came to Mexico with Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who in turn went to Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union.”

She recalled that former President Ernesto Zedillo attended the Ibero-American Summit and also met with Cuban dissidents. “With Vicente Fox, there was that ‘eat and leave’ incident when Fidel Castro came to Mexico. Jorge Castañeda was at the Foreign Ministry, and they were concerned that George Bush would meet with Castro” at the Monterrey summit.

She noted that in subsequent six-year terms, Felipe Calderón, Peña Nieto, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador traveled to Havana, and when asked directly, she indicated that he does not currently have a visit to the island planned.

“This is important because the Mexico-Cuba relationship is historic. Mexico was the only country that opposed the (United States) blockade from the outset. This is not a new situation. And everything is done within the framework of the law and also for humanitarian reasons with the Cuban people,” she emphasized.

She also said she will ask Pemex to specify how many barrels of oil are being sent to the island, as well as the cost of transportation, cargo handling, and port unloading. “Everything is legal, and it’s part of something that has been done with Cuba for a long time,” she insisted.

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More than fifteen people have been hospitalized for assaults in previous days.

On Monday, three members of Honduras’ conservative National Party were injured in an explosive attack as they finished their work on the special vote count organized by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

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The incident occurred near the CNE’s Electoral Logistics Center (CLE) as Flor Idalia Esquivel, Joseph Alexander Galdamez, and Kenia Gisela Pinto were boarding a bus after participating in the recount of 2,792 tally sheets with inconsistencies.

CNE President Ana Paola Hall condemned the violence, expressed solidarity with the injured, and called for restraint. She emphasized that violence should never be a means of democratic expression.

Hall stressed that the country demonstrated its democratic capacity to the world on November 30 and affirmed that only by uniting can Hondurans overcome the current political difficulties.

CNE councilor Cossette Lopez informed that the attack was carried out with Molotov cocktails and pointed to the inoperability of the 911 emergency system cameras, supposedly for maintenance, as suspicious.

🔴🗳 | Consejera presidenta del CNE, Ana Paola Hall.

➡Cualquier ataque a una autoridad electoral no es personal, busca vulnerar el proceso.
➡Ante estas circunstancias, necesitamos adoptar medidas preventivas, sin abandono de funciones. pic.twitter.com/InlKuzC75C

— TSiHonduras (@TSiHonduras) December 23, 2025

The text reads, “CNE President Ana Paola Hall: Any attack on an electoral authority is not personal; it seeks to undermine the process. Given these circumstances, we need to adopt preventative measures, without abandoning our duties.”

Lopez warned that more than fifteen people had been hospitalized for assaults in the preceding days and questioned the government’s inaction. The incident occurred amidst political tension as the special recount continues.

According to the CNE registry, with 99.92% of the ballots counted, National Party presidential candidate Nasry Asfura leads with 40.34% of the vote, followed by Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party with 39.44%, and Rixi Moncada of the Libre Party with 19.22%.

Previously, Moncada declared that the Libre Party does not recognize the elections and denounced interference and coercion by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with allied oligarchic sectors. She accused them of carrying out an ongoing electoral coup by sending intimidating messages.

She stated that the electoral violation was confirmed through the modules for the dissemination and processing of tally sheets, pointing out irregularities such as 5,000 tally sheets with zero values and inconsistencies in 95.17% of those transmitted with respect to the biometric system.

#FromTheSouth News Bits | Honduras: More than three weeks after the general elections, the National Electoral Council (CNE) began a special recount of thousands of voting records that showed inconsistencies. pic.twitter.com/lQpXTOdDR0

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 22, 2025

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This editorial by Miguel Darío Hidalgo originally appeared in the December 202, 2025 issue of La Jornada de Oriente, the Puebla edition of Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of Mexico Solidarity Media*, or the* Mexico Solidarity Project*.*

The scenarios of war and genocide in the world are becoming increasingly complex. The expansionist war tactics of the old and worn-out US imperialism are revealing an ever more cynical, cowardly, and dehumanized face. This is evident in the extermination of the Palestinian people and Lebanon, carried out by Israel as its armed wing in the Middle East—a phenomenon that has transcended the boundaries of reality, with more than 30,000 deaths among children and women in the last two years of armed conflict.

Trump and Netanyahu continue to inflict grave harm on humanity, despite international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), whose purpose is to intervene for world peace, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its warnings of malnutrition and hunger. Neocolonial atrocities persist.

In Latin America, the rise of the far right in some countries is plunging us into uncertainty and pushing us to the brink of conflicts designed to control territories. The focus on Venezuela, Colombia, and, of course, socialist Cuba, is based on unethical and immoral narratives that shamelessly justify constant harassment and strong intentions of military intervention. The Latin American context is being shaped by the imposition of neoliberal economic and political models; trade agreements that benefit the empire; and, just in case, military intervention in countries not aligned with Uncle Sam’s principles.

In our America, progressive governments, under the banner of the Bolivarian Revolution, and the country inspired by José Martí, find themselves in open confrontation with the United States government over geopolitical interests. In these Latin American countries, the strength to resist, re-exist, and persist comes from the organized people. There, each government builds alliances with the people; they do not use them for political manipulation.

In political contexts with economic scenarios favorable to national and international capital, it is crucial to maintain power and persuade the voting population through social programs. However, welfare programs with political aims are not the same as forging political alliances with the impoverished population created by voracious neoliberal capitalism. In other words, “The poor first” is a slogan used to sustain—and subjugate—the “poor” as political instruments. The narrative of the existence of poverty, while real, is used to justify presidential power. Furthermore, the survival of political power rests on an alliance that legitimizes itself with the people, replacing the logic of mere subsistence with the sense of an ally capable of confronting the right and far right, as exemplified by the marches organized by the so-called “Generation Z.”

Why does the Fourth Transformation act in favor of national and international capital? Because it is not leftist, as many political analysts, both mainstream and independent, claim—some to justify the existence of a government supposedly beholden to the people, and others, on the right, to demonize and exploit the government’s missteps and confuse the masses. The 4T government’s Plan México confirms this.

The seemingly compassionate political strategy of “The Poor First” perpetuates dependency through social programs very similar to those implemented by the PRIAN (PRI and PAN parties) during their neoliberal terms (Solidarity, Progresa, Prospera, Procampo, among others). Now, programs like 65 and Over, Welfare for Single Mothers, the Benito Juárez Universal Scholarship, Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life), and others have emerged.

The shortcomings of the Mexican government manifest themselves in the discontent of sectors of the population who do not see their labour, social, and political needs reflected in this center-democratic model of government, which leans toward the international right. In the case of unionized workers, peasant resistance groups, and state employees (also unionized), they face a rigid and dynamic structure shaped by political forces aligned with the global economic model (the hegemony of trade globalization and the ideology of global neoliberalism).

What alliances would a government consistent with the demands of exploited peoples forge? With the groups to whom it made promises during its political campaigns that were subsequently broken; such as the CNTE teachers’ union and the repeal of the education reform; with Indigenous communities and the suspension of mega-mining projects that dispossess them of their land; with arts and culture unions and the respect for their labour rights; with public universities and the restoration of the necessary budget for the academic and scientific activities the country requires; with students and the reappearance of the 43 kidnapped and disappeared students from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college; with women searching for the disappeared; and with the many other cases that remain unpunished.

The political onslaught of the Fourth Transformation creates the conditions for the right and far right to regain political and social control. The other path, of left and popular governments, would seek (and create) the circumstances that resist neoliberalism.

A remote and improbable historical solution would be to first work with the poor, social and labor organizations, and the mothers searching for their missing children… and, only as a last resort, if forced, with the hegemonic financial capital. The “national” cry would be: “Don’t support me, make me your ally and let’s build another world.” But expecting a Fourth Transformation allied to popular struggles is just wishful thinking.

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  Welfare programs with political aims are not the same as forging political alliances with the impoverished population created by voracious neoliberal capitalism.

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  Florida, the Race for the Presidency & Opaque Capital

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