Teri Mattson

Host of the Popular Resistance weekly broadcast WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine.

When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.

They made a huge mistake.

You will be hearing more soon. https://t.co/rZw8bRAn64

[CODEPINK @codepink]

🇻🇪 What's happening in Venezuela since the earthquakes?

Join us tomorrow @ 11am ET for a conversation with Belen de los Santos, teleSUR correspondent in Cuba and the Caribbean.

https://t.co/JdOWUiAwq3

[Venezuelanalysis @venanalysis]

"Rather than viewing the election as an endpoint, many [Colombian] activists are already treating it as the opening chapter of a four-year organizing campaign."
Recommended analysis by @hey_ter
https://t.co/lS0s9fe3Eu

[TheBrightonBard @TheBrightonBard]

MEXICO CITY. 🇲🇽

I witnessed something on this street last night that I need to share.

⚽️❤️👇🏼

[Mexico Solidarity Media @MexSolidarity]

Colombia’s Left After the 2026 Election: Defeat, Renewal, and the Future of the Pink Tide

A razor-thin conservative victory hasn't ended Colombia's progressive movement. Organizers, unions, students, and community groups are preparing for what's next.

https://t.co/5aIKqnTmk0

[Teri Mattson @hey_ter]

A razor-thin conservative victory has not ended Colombia’s progressive movement. Organizers, unions, students, and community groups are already preparing for the next four years.
https://t.co/r5UV9nD9U3

[Teri Mattson @hey_ter]

Please RSVP: Devastating Earthquakes in Venezuela, U.S. Sanctions and Our Tasks https://t.co/UvTVnZL1p5

[Teri Mattson @hey_ter]

In moments of disaster, solidarity saves lives. Please donate today and stand with the people of Venezuela as they rebuild their communities together.  https://t.co/2JroCQ1AVI

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Wow!

Let this sink in: After the first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad, US intelligence picked up that Israel was planning to assassinate the Iranian negotiators as they were returning to Tehran.

The US told regional states to alert Iran.

Israel is a state that, on paper, is a US partner but in reality is so extreme in its obsession to undermine US diplomacy that it even tries to assassinate those the US engages with in crucial negotiations.

I can't recall a government as terrified of peace as the one running Israel.

https://t.co/pzvuA0h8Bk

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

"People are concerned about not having this issue be some sort of masked attempt at bringing in troops or bringing in things that are not needed for the rescue efforts."

WATCH @CarlosJRonVE discuss why many Venezuelans are skeptical of U.S. soldiers participating in earthquake rescue missions: https://t.co/iQMLhfURJp

[Joseph Bouchard @GeopolWonk]

Bolivia: The Wiphala is back at the Casa Grande del Pueblo!

[Bomberos de Chile @BomberosdeChile]

𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗔 | Bombero chileno en La Guaira: "Los edificios vacacionales quedaron más destruidos que los sociales"

Fuente: Las Últimas Noticias

[Mexico Solidarity Media @MexSolidarity]

Exhibition on Maya Culture Amazes in China

The “most ambitious and largest-scale” international exhibition in the museum’s nearly 10-year history. More than 800 artifacts fill Beijing’s Capital Museum, where curators trace parallels between Maya, Inca and Chinese civilization.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Zeteo: “What do you feel like your relationship is to America, and what do you want America to mean?”

Claire Valdez: “I want to see representatives of the United States really grapple with the idea that the United States has played a major role in the destabilization of countries abroad...

We can’t talk about immigration without talking about economic sanctions, about war and displacement, about environmental devastation.

I want to see representatives really grapple with that long history.”

@prem_thakker | @claireforny

[CODEPINK @codepink]

🇨🇴 What happened with the Colombian election?

Join us tomorrow with international election observers from @DemSocialists delegation to Colombia as we discuss what happened.

▶️ https://t.co/UTA9gIbTJX

[Teri Mattson @hey_ter]

https://t.co/xlXNaMS3ST

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Venezuela was hit with a Magnitude 7.2 earthquake and a Magnitude 7.5 one, less than a minute later, followed by 20 aftershocks.

The US Geological Survey has issued a red alert and warned that the death toll may be in the tens of thousands.

[Bloomberg @business]

Leftist Senator Iván Cepeda conceded defeat in Colombia’s presidential runoff, dispelling lingering doubts over the results after preliminary counts showed his rival had won by less than one percentage point. https://t.co/otxroWb4Tl

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

That time Amy Goodman and I interviewed Alan Greenspan about:
- The failure of trickle down economics
- His role creating the 2008 financial collapse and the oligarch class
- His support for the invasion of Iraq and of shock therapy in Russia

He was pissed. https://t.co/8KTjUT60IH

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US empire is waging a neocolonial assault all across Latin America.

The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election. Trump and Marco Rubio backed the far-right, multimillionaire candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (a defender of fascist paramilitaries), and there are serious irregularities in the results.

Colombia's current left-wing President Gustavo Petro has been very pro-Palestine and pro-China. He cut relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and joined China's Belt and Road Initiative.

De la Espriella vows to form a close alliance with the US and Israel, and minimize relations with China. Just a few weeks before the elections, he was in Florida, meeting with far-right US politicians who are close allies of Trump and Rubio.

The same thing is happening across the continent. The US carried out a blatant electoral coup in Honduras, to put a drug cartel-linked, pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-China puppet in power.

The US is currently trying to steal the election in Peru, to put the daughter of the fascist former dictator in power.

The US empire already has far-right puppets in power in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. The leader of Chile is the Pinochet-defending son of a Nazi war criminal. The dictator of Ecuador is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch.

Brazil is the next target of the US empire's neocolonial assault, in this year's election.

This is the colonial Monroe Doctrine in the neo-fascist era.