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Caracas, January 13, 2026 (YVKE Mundial) – The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) issued an official statement this Tuesday expressing its strongest support for the people and Government of the Republic of Cuba, led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Army General Raúl Castro Ruz. The regional bloc reaffirmed the legitimate right of the Caribbean nation to exercise its sovereignty, independence, and self-determination, rejecting any attempt at external interference that threatens its political and social project.

In the document, the Alliance underscores that the Charter of the United Nations is the fundamental pillar of peaceful coexistence, highlighting universal principles such as the sovereign equality of states and the absolute prohibition of the threat or use of force. ALBA-TCP praised the historical trajectory of Cuban foreign policy, emphasizing its commitment to multilateralism and its unwavering dedication to solidarity—particularly with countries of the Global South. The statement comes amid heightened regional tensions following the January 3 military aggression against Venezuela, during which the sacrifice of Cuban personnel carrying out official missions once again solidified the bonds of brotherhood between the two peoples.

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Finally, the multilateral organization urged the international community to maintain its firm support for Cuba, reiterating its demand for the lifting of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States. ALBA-TCP reaffirmed that respect for political independence and the peaceful resolution of disputes are the only paths to guaranteeing stability and cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, asserting that Cuba’s dignity stands as a symbol of resistance for the entire region.

(YVKE Mundial)

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This article by Braulio Carbajal originally appeared in the January 14, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. In 2025, Mexico broke its record for corn imports, both yellow and white, for the third consecutive year, with a volume of 24,590,000 tons, 4.1 percent more than the 23,630,000 tons of 2024, according to the Agricultural Markets Consulting Group (GCMA).

Mexican corn producers face a war on two-fronts: against the dumping of US corn, which receives over $5b USD annually in subsidies; and against the low-balling of domestic monopolies such as Grupo Minsa, owned by President Sheinbaum’s economic advisor Altagracia Gómez Sierra. Grupo Minsa is a monopoly enriched by FOBAPROA bank bailout money and the proceeds of dubious privatizations over the neoliberal period.

According to information that the agency shared with this media outlet, of the total purchased – mainly from the United States – 900,000 tons were white corn, used in the masa and tortilla chain, an increase of 350 percent compared to the 200,000 tons of the previous year.

Despite the notable increase, white corn purchases did not break records, as 1.5 million tons were imported in 2011; 1.4 million in 2012; 900,000 tons in 2015; and 1.1 million in 2016 and 2018.

Although Mexico is the ninth largest agri-food producer in the world and the fourteenth largest exporter, it is the largest importer of yellow and white corn.

Historically, the country had been almost self-sufficient in white corn production; however, imports have skyrocketed due to the increasing competitiveness of imported grain, especially from the United States, at a lower price.

“The global oversupply and depressed international prices, especially for corn from the United States, continue to drive higher import volumes at lower costs, which benefits the industry but puts pressure on domestic production,” explained Juan Carlos Anaya, general director of the GCMA.

In 2025, the United States had a record corn harvest, which lowered the international price of the grain. Furthermore, the peso appreciated sharply against the dollar, making imports cheaper, and, according to Anaya, the domestic market is stagnant due to a lack of profitability for national producers.

Regarding yellow corn, used as animal feed and to manufacture derivative products, Julio Berdegué, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, explained last November that the increase in imports is due to a greater demand for animal protein, which he attributed to the increase in the minimum wage since part of the population has risen out of poverty.

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  It is crucial to move from rhetoric to action and initiate a genuine transformative process that begins at the federal level and extends across the board to state and local governments, which are directly responsible for ensuring compliance.

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The port of Eilat (Umm al-Rashrash) in the southernmost tip of the Occupied Territories has seen its revenues fall to “nearly zero” due to Yemeni pro-Palestine operations disrupting Red Sea shipping lines, Israeli media report.

On Monday, January 12, Israeli paper Yediot Ahronoth reported that the port was now “almost completely paralyzed,” with dockworkers arriving daily to empty berths as commercial vessels failed to reach the port.

“The port’s revenues, which previously reached about $74 million a year, have dropped to almost zero,” it wrote.

The operational crisis dates back to November 2023, when the Yemeni Armed Forces seized a vessel bound for the port.

The seizure came as part of operations that the servicemen and Yemen’s popular resistance Ansarallah movement had begun launching in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who had come under a war of genocide by the Israeli regime.

Since then, shipping traffic has failed to recover, amid the attacks that would target Israeli ships as well as vessels travelling to or from ports in the occupied territories, the outlets wrote.

The disruption marked a sharp reversal for the port, which used to handle large volumes of cargo.

Before the disruptions, Eilat was experiencing significant growth. In October 2024 alone, the port reportedly handled around 150,000 vehicles. At the time, Israeli officials even considered expanding its role to support Mediterranean ports such as occupied Haifa and Ashdod, which were facing threats from retaliatory rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement.

However, the outlets said Yemen’s intervention in support of Palestinians “changed everything,” effectively halting activity in Eilat.

Batya Zafarani, the port’s vice president of finance, told Yediot Ahronoth that the situation deteriorated rapidly after the November 19, 2023 seizure of the ship, which was en route to the port.

“Two companies, NYK and ZIM, that work with us, stopped sending ships here,” Zafarani said. “For months, we thought it would be okay” and the regime “would help.”

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Port officials have repeatedly called on the Zionist regime to intervene, but say no effective support has materialized.

In July 2025, Eilat’s CEO Gideon Golber warned in comments to The Times of Israel that the port’s closure would represent an unprecedented blow.

“The closure of a strategic seaport…would be a huge international success for the Houthis (Ansarallah) that none of our enemies have ever achieved,” Golber said at the time.

Also on Monday, Avi Hormaru, chairman of the port and CEO of the Nakash Group, an investment body, said the regime had abandoned the port, adding that those launching the retaliatory strikes were now “deciding” whether Tel Aviv could operate the port or not.

“We don’t manage the Red Sea,” he added, citing the repercussions of the solidarity strikes that had prompted ships seeking to reach the territories to sail around southern Africa at great cost for the regime’s economy.

(PressTV)

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By John Perry  –  Jan 13, 2025

Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its head of state have overshadowed his less brazen but possibly more effective regime-change operation in Honduras. No one can be sure if the National Party’s Nasry ‘Tito” Asfura really won the presidential election on 30 November, but he was Trump’s endorsed candidate and will almost certainly assume office on 27 January.

Since 2021 Honduras has had a left-wing government, headed by the Libre party’s Xiomara Castro. She revitalised a neglected public health service, reduced poverty and curbed gang violence. But presidential power in Honduras is heavily constrained. There is a local story of child being asked who governs the country and replying: ‘The president, the head of the army and the US ambassador.’ Castro’s husband, Manuel Zelaya, elected president in 2005, was ousted in a coup in 2009, led by an army general and with the US embassy’s tacit support.

The left was fraudulently denied power in elections in 2013 and 2017, allowing Juan Orlando Hernández, endorsed by the US, to run Honduras as a narco-state. In 2021, however, Castro’s majority was overwhelming. Unlike Hernández, she has respected the constitutional limit of one term in office.

The Libre candidate, former minister Rixi Moncada, led several opinion polls earlier in the year. When Trump’s “armada” entered the Caribbean in late August, however, Moncada’s two right-wing opponents, Asfura and the Liberal Party’s Salvador Nasralla, claimed that “Honduras would be next” if Moncada, whom they falsely portrayed as a “communist,” became president.

Hondurans’ limited faith in their electoral system was further damaged in late October, with the disclosure of a possible plot to repeat what happened in 2017, when a premature announcement of the US-backed candidate’s victory was immediately endorsed by the US embassy. On 9 November, a trial run of the new electronic voting system partially failed.

For most of November, polls indicated that Moncada’s main challenger was Nasralla, with Asfura trailing a poor third. Four days before the vote, however, Trump denounced not only Moncada but also Nasralla (whom he called a “borderline communist”), warning that “narcoterrorists” would run Honduras if either was elected. He then suggested that the US would continue to supply aid to Honduras only if Asfura won. Unverified reports appeared on social media threatening the 1.3 million households which rely on remittances from relatives in the US that their December payments would be blocked if Asfura lost.

Two days before the polls, Trump pardoned Hernández, who had been extradited when his term ended and was serving a 45-year prison sentence for trafficking cocaine to the US while publicly presenting himself as an ally in the “war on drugs.” The pardon could have backfired but instead proved to be an astute boost to Asfura’s campaign, since many of his supporters still idolise Hernández.

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By election night, Moncada was trailing in the polls behind both right-wingers. In early voting returns, Nasralla had the advantage over Asfura. There was a break in announcing the results. When the count resumed, Asfura had taken the lead. Trump stepped in again, accusing officials of trying to change the outcome and warning of “hell to pay” if the numbers changed in Nasralla’s favour.

Interruptions and delays in the count stretched over days and then weeks. When Libre claimed that an “electoral coup” was taking place, its representative on the electoral council was sidelined by the other two parties and then personally sanctioned by Washington. The election result was eventually declared more than three weeks later, on 24 December, as Hondurans were celebrating Christmas. Asfura was declared the winner by fewer than 27,000 votes. The army gave its backing to the electoral council’s decision.

Up to 130,000 votes, however, were still to be counted: enough to change the outcome of the election. The Honduran Congress met a few days ago and instructed the electoral council to carry out a complete recount, threatening to do the job itself if necessary. Before it met, a homemade bomb was thrown at a National Party lawmaker, injuring her as she entered the congressional building. The US embassy has threatened “grave consequences” if Asfura’s victory is overturned.

Electoral observers from the Organisation of American States and the European Union disapproved of the delays but found no evidence of fraud. On Trump’s interference they were silent. Xiomara Castro has written to the US president requesting a meeting to discuss what happened. It seems unlikely that she will get one.

(London Review of Books)

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This article by Erick Augusto Vargas Noria originally appeared in the December 2025 edition ofMemoria: Revista de Crítica Militante. We thank Memoria for permission to reprint the article and encourage you to supportMemoriaand theCenter for Studies of the Labor and Socialist Movement. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those ofMexico Solidarity Mediaor theMexico Solidarity Project*.*

The Mexican Revolution represented the clearest expression of popular protest against the deep social inequalities that prevailed under a system dominated by military, economic, religious, and local elites.

In this context, the Revolution placed at the center of national life a historically repressed, humiliated, and segregated group: the Indigenous population. It is no coincidence that the demand for “Tierra y Libertad” became a battle cry to end decades of injustice and abuses against the poorest communities in the country. In this sense, Emiliano Zapata, then as now, remains the symbol of the struggle against oppression and tyranny exercised from positions of power.

Throughout our history, the construction of the Mexican state has had luminous moments, such as the Cárdenas era, which successfully channeled the demands of the working class, peasantry, and the general population. That was a golden age in which significant progress was made in various areas, including land redistribution.

However, with regard to Indigenous justice, although significant steps have been taken, there is still a long and winding road ahead, not to mention the resistance that persists to this day.

Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN with Hugo Aguilar Ortiz at 1996 peace talks in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.

In this context, the arrival of Hugo Aguilar—a lawyer of Indigenous origin—to the presidency of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), along with justices elected by popular vote, constitutes a historic event. It represents the deepening of a process that began before 2018, was consolidated in 2024, and, in 2025, reaches its peak with a renewed judicial system.

The challenge is significant: one need only look at the degree of decay and backwardness inherited from the previous Court. Even so, expectations for the new justices are extremely high, although time to demonstrate results is limited. The task is to transform a system accustomed to privilege, favoritism, and corruption.

Regarding Indigenous issues, there are key points that must be discussed within a broad, pluralistic, inclusive, cross-cutting, historical, and profoundly human framework. Among these, the following stand out:

1. Recognition of Multicultural Richness

Indigenous communities are living organisms that, from their very roots, preserve festivals, traditions, rituals, customs, languages, and their own ways of understanding the world. To legislate or administer justice without considering this multicultural richness would mean ignoring the essence of our peoples.

2. Territory as a Legitimate Inheritance

For Indigenous communities, territory is a space to which they belong and which they claim as their legitimate inheritance, long before the arrival of the Spanish Crown. The dispossession and massacres suffered for centuries remain open wounds, now embodied in the voraciousness of corporations and businesses. In this regard, the State’s historical debt is enormous, and the judicial system must assume a central role in its redress.

As Carina García points out: “The cases litigated by indigenous communities in defense of collective rights are generally of two types: against companies and against the Mexican State, through its institutions; the latter, for non-compliance with services, for example, water, health and education” (2025).

3. Respect for the Environment & Sustainability

From the Indigenous worldview, Mother Earth is part of a whole, encompassing vegetation, fauna, and all living beings. There was a profound respect for the natural environment. Respecting the environment and territory today means halting the extractive economic model and, in some cities, curbing the ambitions of real estate developers. At stake here is not only the sustainability of Indigenous communities but also the very preservation of civilization. It is essential that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) address the defiance of local governments.

4. Preservation of Cultural Heritage

The preservation of archaeological sites, an essential part of our heritage, requires public policies that include the communities themselves in their protection. The legacy of our past—ceremonial centers, pyramids, sculptures, codices, ecosystems—must be promoted, yes, but above all, protected.

These points open the discussion to two issues of great relevance in recent decades: autonomy and the full exercise of the rights of Indigenous peoples.

President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken the first steps. Today, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and the Congress of the Union have the historical and material conditions to achieve what Zapata, the Flores Magón brothers, Revueltas, Cárdenas, and many others championed: that our Indigenous communities never again be forgotten or marginalized from major national decisions. It is crucial to move from rhetoric to action and initiate a genuine transformative process that begins at the federal level and extends across the board to state and local governments, which are directly responsible for ensuring compliance with the law.

As Tomás López, president of the Indigenous Professional Center for Consulting, Defense, and Translation (CEPIADET), points out: of all the cases processed in the country, 80% fall under the jurisdiction of state judicial authorities, while only 20% reach the Federal Judiciary (PJF). This demonstrates the enormous responsibility of local governments in handling this volume of cases.

For her part, academic Ortiz Quintero highlights the importance of the 2024 constitutional reform, which recognizes Indigenous peoples as collective subjects of rights, with legal personality, their own patrimony, and legal pluralism. This progress is crucial not only for the recognition itself, but also because it grants communities the possibility of filing injunctions and other legal remedies, such as constitutional disputes.

Example of Cases Pending Resolution by the SCJN in Indigenous Matters

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| | 344/2025 | Amparo in review 536/2022 | Establish clear criteria for interpreting the rights to autonomy, self-determination, and self-government of peoples and communities in accordance with ILO Convention 169. Legal recognition of community governments. Obligation of the authorities to guarantee social, economic, cultural, and political institutions. (Chiapas) | | 324/2025 | Amparo in review 277/2024 | The lack of consultation with an indigenous community regarding the issuance of construction permits for a housing development, and the failure to determine the scope of the legal rights of individuals belonging to Indigenous communities. (Oaxaca) | | 1856/2025VIAJ | Several | It discusses the recognition of the rights and culture of indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities, as well as the participation of traditional community and independent government in development. | | 1485/2025 | Several | In the State of Mexico, it concerns a motion from the local Congress to harmonize the local Constitution with the reform of Article 2 of the Magna Carta regarding Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities. | | 32/2025 | Direct appeal 460/2022 | Criminal proceedings for violent crimes. Application of the protocol for justice officials in cases involving the rights of persons with disabilities; assistance from an expert interpreter in the Nahuatl language and a lawyer specializing in their language and culture must be provided. |

This brief overview is just a glimpse of the enormous challenge facing the new Supreme Court justices. It is now up to society to take a more active role and demand compliance with what is already enshrined in the Constitution.

The arrival of Hugo Aguilar, who has Indigenous roots, does not mean that everything will change overnight. However, it is an unmistakable sign of the changing times we are living through. We trust that this new Court will bring the administration of justice closer to the people of Mexico.

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  Analysis

  A Renewed Opportunity for Indigenous Justice in Mexico

  January 14, 2026

  It is crucial to move from rhetoric to action and initiate a genuine transformative process that begins at the federal level and extends across the board to state and local governments, which are directly responsible for ensuring compliance.

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  Mexico Tells Trump ‘Not in our Hemisphere’ Soberanía 91

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During a meeting with Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi, where they addressed the deteriorating security situation in eastern DRC, its consequences, and the threats to the civilian population, Van de Perre reiterated that MONUSCO supports the defense of the Congolese full sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.

Held in the African Union City on Tuesday, the meeting also analyzed the effective implementation of the immediate and unconditional ceasefire demanded by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2773, according to a statement released by MONUSCO on its X profile on Wednesday.

The mission, which had begun its withdrawal from the DRC in 2024 at the country’s request, halted its withdrawal due to the deteriorating security situation in eastern Congo, and its mandate was renewed in December for another year.

The strategic priorities of this extension are contributing to the protection of the civilian population in its area of deployment, achieving the objectives set out in Resolution 2773 of 2025, consolidating peace, and stabilizing and strengthening state institutions in the DRC.

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In episode 91 of Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth unpack the political response in Mexico following the U.S. attack on Venezuela.

The show starts with an on-the-ground report from the large anti-imperialist march in Mexico City, analyzing the turnout, the diverse participants, and the powerful message of regional solidarity against U.S. aggression. The conversation then shifts to the shifting diplomatic pressures from Washington, breaking down the contradictory “good cop, bad cop” dynamic emerging between Marco Rubio and Donald Trump in their dealings with President Sheinbaum’s administration.

Finally, the hosts delve into an investigative report exposing how U.S. government funds, funneled through CIA-linked contractors, are being used to interfere in Mexican labor unions under the guise of enforcing trade agreements. Plus a Losers and Haters segment on stupid headlines from bad writers.

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  Mexico Tells Trump ‘Not in our Hemisphere’ Soberanía 91

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  Analysis

  Hegemony Without Occupation: Mexican Elites Facing the United States

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  The crucial question is not whether Mexico has competent elites, but whether those elites are willing to stop managing subordination as if it were a virtue.

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The Pakistani Ministry of Economic Affairs stated the Japanese government made a financial contribution of 18.62 million dollars that will be channeled through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), The Nation underscored.

The initiative aims to strengthen children’s healthcare services in the region.

As part of the project, the Multan Children’s Hospital and the Institute of Child Health (ICH) will be modernized with state-of-the-art medical equipment and improved healthcare infrastructure.

Hameer Karim, Secretary of Economic Affairs, thanked Japan at the signing ceremony for its continued assistance and assured that all necessary steps would be taken to ensure the effective implementation of the project.

The newspaper noted that Ambassador Akamatsu Shuichi reaffirmed Japan’s commitment to working closely with Pakistan to improve healthcare services and strengthen bilateral relations.

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According to statements made Wednesday by the spokeswoman to Radio Sputnik, the EU openly supports anti-government actions in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Zakharova noted that while imposing sanctions against Tehran, the EU simultaneously calls for freedom of expression and respect for freedom of association and peaceful assembly.

“What kind of cynicism does one have to possess—and it is, in reality, a frontal and open attack—to reach such conclusions?” the Russian diplomat said.

She emphasized that this EU policy constitutes, in effect, open support for anti-government actions and, essentially, a rebellion.

Zakharova emphasized that the West is dismantling international legal frameworks by exerting this illegal pressure on Iran.

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According to the source, at least 10 military aircraft landed at the base in the last 72 hours, including cargo planes from Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Poland, as well as two refueling tankers.

The Rzeszów base has served as NATO’s main center for transporting military equipment to Ukraine, and a similar facility is planned for Romania to decentralize and secure the flow of supplies.

Local military analysts believe the movement could indicate accelerated logistical preparations or the start of a new phase of supplies, amid growing pressure on Ukrainian communication lines following recent Russian attacks on infrastructure in the Odesa region.

The air mobilization in Rzeszow suggests the alliance is seeking to maintain a constant flow of supplies by air given the vulnerability of land routes, although this option is more expensive and has a lower volumetric capacity.

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This article originally appeared in the January 13, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. The investment for the “Safe Paths: Walk Free, Walk Safe” project will be 1.622 billion pesos between 2025 and 2026, reported the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT).

In a statement, it explained that these are illuminated and monitored paths that will be created along 562 kilometers in 23 municipalities in the State of Mexico, Michoacán and Sonora, to guarantee conditions of safety, accessibility and gender equality in strategic public spaces.

The Ministry indicated that these are priority projects of the current administration, which began to be developed in 2025 in Sonora and the State of Mexico; in 2026 they will continue in the State of Mexico and in Michoacán as part of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, with federal, state and municipal resources.

According to the Undersecretariat of Communications and Transportation, responsible for the work, safe trails were implemented in the municipality of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, during 2025, with an investment of 100 million pesos in 40 kilometers.

Also, as part of the Eastern State of Mexico Plan, during that period 200 kilometers of safe trails were also built in the municipalities of Chalco, Chicoloapan, Chimalhuacán, Ecatepec, Ixtapaluca, Nezahualcóyotl, La Paz, Texcoco, Tlalnepantla and Valle de Chalco, with an investment of 600 million pesos.

Finishing a mural in Chimalhuacán

The goal for this year is to add a length of 300 km in the State of Mexico with an investment of 900 million pesos (to reach 500 km and 1,500 million pesos of investment).

Meanwhile, in Michoacán, as part of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, the program will be implemented in the municipalities of Coeneo and Tzintzuntzan, with an investment of 22 million pesos for 22 km.

According to estimates, the 11 Safe Routes implemented in 2025, 10 in the State of Mexico and one in Sonora, benefit more than 6 million 400 thousand inhabitants between both regions: 6 million 216.3 thousand in the State of Mexico and around 200 thousand inhabitants of Sonora.

The project includes LED lighting, the adaptation and improvement of sidewalks, as well as the creation of artistic murals to generate a positive identity in the spaces.

With the installation of the “Safe Paths: Walk Free Walk Safe”, the Government of Mexico aims to provide greater security, mainly for women, and guarantee secure transit for all.

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  Mexico Tells Trump ‘Not in our Hemisphere’ Soberanía 91

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  Analysis

  Hegemony Without Occupation: Mexican Elites Facing the United States

  January 13, 2026January 13, 2026

  The crucial question is not whether Mexico has competent elites, but whether those elites are willing to stop managing subordination as if it were a virtue.

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According to a statement released Wednesday by the military on its official Telegram channel, as a result of active and decisive actions, units of the Northern Troops Group occupied the town of Komarovka in the Sumi region, which borders Russia’s Kursk region.

The Ministry added that in the last 24 hours, enemy losses along the group’s line of operations reached 190 soldiers.

These casualties are in addition to up to 440 casualties on the Central Group’s line of operations, more than 300 on the Eastern Group’s, up to 200 on the Western Group’s, up to 125 on the Southern Group’s, and more than 55 caused by the Dnieper Group.

During the day, Ukrainian troops also suffered significant material losses: two tanks, 26 armored fighting vehicles, one Czech Vampire rocket launcher, 95 cars, 11 artillery pieces, one AN/TPQ-50 radar, five electronic warfare stations, one counter-battery station, and 14 ammunition and military equipment depots.

Furthermore, seven guided bombs, six HIMARS missiles, and 260 drones were shot down, according to the Ministry of Defense report.

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This analysis, written by Italian economist Luciano Vasapollo, leader of the Network of Communists, points out that Cuba is in the crosshairs of US imperialism because of what it represents, and its defense is not only military or diplomatic: it is a permanent war of position, in the economic, cultural, symbolic, and social spheres.

“The intensification of US aggression against Cuba, in the context of the frontal attack on Bolivarian Venezuela, is not an accident of history nor a momentary deviation from Washington’s foreign policy,” Vasapollo, who is also a co-founder of the Italian chapter of the Network of Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity, states.

The simultaneous attack on both nations, he says, “reveals the specificity of the current phase: the empire strikes where experiences of solidarity-based cooperation, social planning, and regional integration emerge as alternatives to the global market dominated by financial capital.”

“The empire strikes at experiences that, even amidst contradictions and difficulties, have challenged its hegemony on the continent, building practices of solidarity-based cooperation, social planning, and integration as alternatives to the global capitalist market,” the analyst emphasizes.

This aggressive escalation is “the coherent expression of an organic crisis of capitalist imperialism, which can no longer govern through hegemony and is increasingly resorting to coercion,” he stated, quoting the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci.

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The incident, which occurred yesterday, has so far left 19 dead and four seriously injured, while more than a dozen people remain missing under the rubble.

The administrative secretary of the Luberike group, which includes Burutsi, told Actualité.CD that during Wednesday’s rescue operation, another resident fell and fractured his left leg.

He added that those whose homes were destroyed by the landslide are currently taking refuge in local schools.

Authorities appealed for collective solidarity to provide assistance to the victims and support the search for the missing and the care of the injured.

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Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning responded to recent statements by US President Donald Trump, who downplayed the role of international law.

In contrast, the Chinese spokesperson emphasized that it is an essential instrument for resolving disputes.

She also stressed that upholding international law is key to safeguarding international fairness and justice and preventing the world from reverting to the law of the jungle.

Mao pointed out that major powers must assume the responsibility of respecting the authority of international law and fulfilling the obligations it imposes.

The Chinese position comes amid growing global debates about respect for multilateralism and the international system established after World War II.

Trump’s words come amid unilateral, belligerent, threatening, and aggressive actions by the United States against Venezuela and other nations that do not align with Washington’s interests.

Beijing rejects the notion that any single nation should act as the “world’s policeman” and refuses to accept that any country can assume the role of international judge.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized that the sovereignty and security of all nations must be fully protected under international law.

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One of the initiatives seeking to oust the head of Government was presented by the La France Insoumise (LFI) party, and the other by the far-right National Rally (RN) party. However, both parties are considered to have a low chance of success due to the anticipated opposition from other opposition forces.

The Socialist Party (PS) and the conservative party, The Republicans, have ruled out supporting the no-confidence motions, which are expected to gather at most 200 votes, insufficient in a lower house with 577 seats.

Both the LFI and the RN criticize President Emmanuel Macron for not having done enough for the years of EU-MERCOSUR trade deals to prevent the agreement, which is rejected in France by farmers who accuse him of promoting unfair competition.

While Macron opposed the pact, which will be signed on Saturday in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, and France voted against it last week, the opposition believes that this stance was the result of domestic pressure rather than a genuine understanding of the deal’s negative consequences for French agriculture.

In fact, during his attendance at a summit in Belem, Brazil, in November, the French head of State hinted at his willingness to support the free trade initiative between the 27-member EU bloc and the bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, further fueling discontent at home.

Hundreds of French farmers entered Paris on Tuesday with their tractors to ratify their rejection of the deal, and confirmed that they will protest outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 20.

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In a message on her Telegram account, the president stated that she received “a message of solidarity and cooperation” for her country.

She affirmed that the meeting aimed to strengthen “our bilateral relationship and investment opportunities, for the development and well-being of both peoples.”

The presidency reported that Al Shansi conveyed a message of unity, cooperation, and mutual support from the Emirati government and people.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the UAE discussed investment opportunities in various sectors of the South American nation, building upon the diplomatic relations established over more than half a century.

Likewise, the parties promoted joint projects for the progress and well-being of both nations, according to the source.

The meeting at Miraflores Palace, the seat of government, was also attended by the Vice President for Economic Affairs, Calixto Ortega; Foreign Minister Yván Gil; and the Minister for Ecological Mining Development, Héctor Silva.

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The more than 400-page court document, which names former presidents Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), now in exile in Colombia, and Juan Carlos Varela (2014-2019), serves as a map of the system used to channel bribes, conceal their origin, and disperse the funds.

Before the court presided over by Judge Baloisa Marquinez, the main routes used to channel, conceal, and disperse the illicit funds delivered by Odebrecht as bribes were laid bare.

Among these schemes, it was revealed, was the use of shell companies for receiving and transferring funds from the Brazilian company.

These companies included Innovation Research Engineering and Development LTD., Erie Providers Corp., Deltora Enterprises, Kleinfeld Services LTD., and Meinl Bank (Antigua). It was revealed that this bank held a large number of bank accounts opened by Odebrecht’s Structured Operations Department.

The court order specifies that the Structured Operations Department operated as an autonomous unit within the company, responsible for managing, supervising, and executing the bribe payments that the construction company made in various countries, including Panama.

During the reading of the indictment, the involvement of the defendants was also outlined, including former presidential candidate Jose Domingo Arias, among others.

Regarding the hearing, the newspaper La Prensa noted that the process originated from a complaint filed on September 18, 2015, by lawyer Alvin Weeden, who died in 2023, and that the case file incorporated international legal cooperation with Brazil, as well as Odebrecht’s agreement with the US Department of Justice.

Globally, the company and its co-conspirators admitted to paying approximately $788 million in bribes in at least 12 countries, while in Panama the payments exceeded $59 million between 2010 and 2014.

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Novikov, who is the first deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Parliament), told Izvestia that if the meeting takes place, there will be questions on many topics, including those related to the Venezuelan situation.

The lawmaker emphasized that, therefore, issues related to oil will arise. Because those who initiated the complication of the situation surrounding Venezuela, that is, the current White House team, do not hide the fact that one of the objectives of their actions was oil, these questions arise naturally.

The leading issue of the upcoming consultations by lawmakers, as expected, will also be the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, US Representative Anna Paulina Luna stated earlier.

Novikov noted that a number of organizational issues, including the meeting format, the composition of the delegations, the dates, as well as security matters and sanctions restrictions against Russian parliamentarians, remain in the planning stage.

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Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin is here to assume the presidency on behalf of his country.

The G77 presidency rotates on a regional basis each year, and this time it is Latin America and the Caribbean’s turn, with Uruguay serving as coordinator and spokesperson.

According to its official definition, the Group “provides the means so that countries of the Global South articulate and promote their collective economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity.”

In particular, it addresses important international economic issues within the UN system and promotes South-South cooperation for development.

Foreign Minister Lubetkin stated that Uruguay will lead the group, focusing on challenges such as inequality, conflict resolution, climate crisis, and the defense of multilateralism.

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The newspaper stated that although the state of preparedness has not yet changed on the domestic front, the Air Force, the Military Intelligence, and the Northern Command “are on high alert and cooperating with the US Central Command,” which is responsible for operations in the Middle East and other neighboring areas.

The IDF estimates that the Pentagon will build up forces in the region before launching strikes on Iran, including aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea, as well as more fighter jets and bombers at its forward operating bases, the publication noted.

Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper admitted that Israel’s anxiety is rising again.

Trump repeatedly threatened the Muslim-majority nation in the last few days, which has been experiencing a wave of protests since December 28, resulting in several injuries and deaths.

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According to a statement from the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), the trial established that during the 2019 social uprising, police officer Claudio Crespo premeditatedly shot Gustavo Gatica, who lost his sight due to his injuries.

The text reads, “In this regard, we are deeply concerned about the acquittal, because it raises the concern that other officers, protected by a supposed role of social control and repression, could be acquitted and enjoy impunity under similar criteria.”

The PCCh also regrets that the judges went beyond the legal realm and made a political interpretation of the events in Chile between October 18, 2019, and March 20, 2020.

The group expressed its full solidarity with Gustavo Gatica, who was elected to Congress in last year’s elections and will take his seat in the National Congress as of March.

The Academy of Christian Humanism University in this nation (UAHC), where Gatica studied, rejected the Court’s ruling, which applied the Nain Retamal Law to exempt Crespo from legal responsibility for the serious injuries inflicted on the victim.

Broad Front (FA) lawmaker Claudia Mix stated that, after Claudio Crespo’s acquittal, the Nain Retamal Law assures impunity faced with state violence.

Gatica announced that they will appeal the ruling and, if necessary, will take the case to international courts to obtain justice.

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Gonzalez affirmed last night, “We must build our own alternative media and virtual, digital communities.

We must create networks among ourselves and launch groups. We must connect and coordinate this entire movement. We must continue to unite.”

During a meeting held at the Cuban Embassy in this capital with members of the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba and the Association of Cuban Residents in Mexico, the journalist remarked that we live in a world where “reality is a broken mirror.”

In his opinion, the media have long been dedicated to lulling, deceiving, and sowing uncertainty and confusion.

Regarding the complex situation faced by the people of the island, besieged by the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States, Gonzalez stated that it is unprecedented and emphasized, in light of that reality, the importance of the actions of solidarity movements around the world.

The intellectual also highlighted Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro’s vision of culture as a liberating force, on the 100th birthday of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, to be commemorated on August 13.

Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martinez, reaffirmed Cuba’s defense and that of Latin America, as well as the unbreakable bond between this country and Cuba, against any threat.

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In statements to Prensa Latina regarding the latest events in Latin America, Mourya condemned the kidnapping by the Donald Trump administration of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and its recent aggression against Venezuela.

She also rejected the explicit and direct threats from the US administration against Cuba regarding a possible military intervention against the Caribbean nation.

“We condemn these kinds of threats… It is the behavior of an imperialist… but the voice of the people is much stronger, and that is why the whole world will stand in solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela,” the Indian writer also noted.

She also demanded the release of the Venezuelan president and his wife.

Mourya recalled India’s anti-colonial heritage, which suffered the abuses caused by subjugation to a foreign power.

However, he reiterated his confidence in the fighting spirit of his people, who are much more aware and will remain alongside Venezuelans and Cubans, brothers and sisters in the Non-Aligned Movement, BRICS, and other forums around the world, he emphasized.

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According to the Colombian Geological Survey (SGC), the earthquakes are located beneath the crater, at depths of less than one kilometer, and are related to the circulation and release of volcanic gases into the atmosphere.

The agency also reported continued sulfur dioxide emissions and the release of gases through fissures in the craters of the Curiquinga and Piocollo volcanoes, although no associated ash emissions have been identified so far.

The temperature inside the Purace volcano crater, associated with the gas emissions, continues to show a decrease in the values ​​recorded by satellite, the SGC added.

The agency’s most recent bulletin also reported on the detection, on January 12, of a secondary mudflow (lahar) in the northeastern sector of the volcano, identified by seismic records and which, due to its size, did not represent a risk to the population.

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