Category: South America

South America / Venezuela

 by Jaffa Levy

Venezuela as Collateral: The Real Ledger Behind Washington’s Next Conflict

Venezuela is not a target chosen for democracy or regional stability. It is chosen because Washington is running out of financial room and geopolitical momentum. With interest payments exceeding defence spending and Ukraine draining Europe’s capacity, the United States now sees Venezuelan oil and minerals as a lifeline. “Southern Spear” is not a strategy. It is the reflex of a system under pressure, reaching outward for collateral to stabilise itself.

World / Venezuela

 by Jaffa Levy

The Caribbean Standoff: Washington’s Warships and Venezuela’s Moment of Pressure

American and British warships massing off Venezuela mark not a prelude to invasion but a theatre of pressure fleets circling a crisis that looks like war yet stops short of it. With around ten thousand troops at sea, Washington appears to be testing leverage, not launching conquest. Maritime power is being used as policy: signalling, coercion and the threat of precision strikes dressed in the language of counternarcotics.

South America / Venezuela

 by Jaffa Levy

America Returns to Gunboat Power in the Caribbean

In the span of two months, U.S. naval forces have turned the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific into a theatre of undeclared war launching at least fifteen lethal strikes on boats alleged to be drug carriers, leaving dozens dead and entire crews vanished at sea. Washington calls it counternarcotics. Caracas, Beijing and much of Latin America call it a return to gunboat power extrajudicial killings in peacetime waters under the flag of law enforcement.

World / Argentina / South America

 by Jaffa Levy

Milei’s Malvinas Gambit and Britain’s Test of Resolve

At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, Argentina’s President Javier Milei revived his country’s claim over the Falkland Islands at a moment when Britain looks distracted abroad and divided at home.

South America / Venezuela

 by Jaffa Levy

Venezuela Under Siege: America’s Dirty War in the Caribbean

Washington’s Shadow War on Venezuela: Bounties, Battleships, and the Long Siege CARACAS — The gray silhouettes of U.S. warships have reappeared in the Caribbean, a show of force not seen with such intensity since...