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But what will take place tomorrow is truly, tangibly, a matter of life or death. The presidentials second stage sees the first stage winner, a hawk, corrupt lawyer who's been in charge of defending far-right paramilitaries, Catholic church pedophiles, and the biggest pyramid scheme fraudster in our history, along with having actively helped coordinating paramilitary operations to further the historical persecution of anybody from the Colombian Left even as mild as social democrats along with rampant land dispossession driving forcible displacement, having sworn to diminish state resources and operational scale by deleting entire ministries and offices around social funding to "optimise" the public treasury (what Milei, Noboa, Kast, and Paz have done in Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, and Bolivia) and who literally actively threatens to eviscerate everybody on the Colombian Left and anybody disagreeing with it going as far as to expressly state he intends to do here what Netanyahu has in Palestine and Lebanon as he admittedly identifies as an Islamophobe, having received full sponsoring to do so by Trump's government; against a social democrat human rights lawyer who has dedicated his entire career to defend the very people targeted and affected by everything the former has been involved in, who led a historical case against a former president who's the central figure in contemporary far-right politics in the country and extractivistic coke paste trafficking all across Latin America (case during which the country's major judiciary proved said human rights lawyer right). The human rights lawyer's father, one of the very few actual Communist congressmen we've ever had, was murdered by paramilitaries on the order of the national army leading ranks back then after years of having been forced into exile with his son and wife because of having been made into military targets precisely because of his partisan and militant persuasion.

I've made my thoughts on liberal democracy very clear in this site as a fellow Communist, I hate that liberal democracy has led us to this once again. But if you pray and believe to any degree in the divine, please, please, pray that the latter of the aforementioned ends up winning these elections. We've deployed just about any material resource we've come along with to support and promote his campaign because it will truly make a different between going back to be ruled by systemic state terrorism as we were for decades; or continuing social and labour reforms, institutional support for the proletariat (including dispossessed peasants forced into proletarisation), historically neglected victims of misogyny, femicide, queerphobia and transphobia, and the diplomatic policies through which we've come to support Palestinians as part of The Hague Group.

As the US continues to escalate threats and military pressure against Venezuela and now Colombia, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth announced the deployment of aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), to the Caribbean on Friday, October 24. The most capable and lethal strike platform in the world adds to the already massive military buildup in the Caribbean of 10,000 US troops, at least eight war ships, P-8 surveillance planes, and F-35 jets deployed amid the Trump administration’s alleged counter-narcotics operations. US troops are also reportedly deploying to Trinidad and Tobago, mere miles from Venezuela, for five days of coordinated “military exercises”.

“It’s past time for Maduro to go. Keep it up, President Trump,” said Senator Lindsay Graham in an X post on Friday, October 24.

Venezuela is “a candidate for decisive military action on land, sea, or air” because it has for years been “a safe haven for drug cartels poisoning America,” Graham added.

During a White House address on October 23, US President Donald Trump said, “Now they’re coming in by land … I told them the land is gonna be next.”

“It’s very hard to find any floating vessel right now. In the Pacific or in the gulf,” Trump added.

Acknowledging the escalation that a land invasion would represent, Trump said, “We may go to the Congress and tell them about it but I can’t imagine they’ll have any problem with it.

On October 21 and 22, the US military also expanded their maritime operations to Colombia’s Pacific Coast, striking two boats near the South American country. The attacks marked the eighth and ninth such vessels blown up by the US, allegedly targeting drugs, but the first beyond the Caribbean Sea. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called these attacks “murders” and violations of the country’s sovereignty.

At least 43 people have been extrajudicially executed in a total of ten boat bombings since September.

Oct. 24th 2025.

As per The Cradle:

UPDATE | Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir López published a video on Facebook saying he is safe in a bunker somewhere in Venezuela. Caption from his Facebook post:

"Heroic people of Venezuela! Soldiers of the Fatherland! Sons and daughters of Bolívar!

The Bolivarian National Armed Forces inform the entire world that in the early hours of January 3, 2026, the Venezuelan people became the target of the most criminal military aggression by the government of the United States.

Have you folks been paying attention to workers strikes in Bolivia though?

"Resign or we will kick you out - those are your options."

Unions across Bolivia declared a national strike and demonstrators have installed dozens of road blocks shutting down trade across the country. Their message: The president must step down – either by choice or by force.

For years, Bolivians have been facing economic exhaustion - which is now worsening with long fuel lines, soaring inflation and supply shortages so severe even hospitals have run out of basic medical supplies.

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