Mark Weisbrot

Co-director, Center for Economic & Policy Research (@ceprdc). Latest book, ''Failed: What the Experts Got Wrong About the Global Economy" Oxford U Press.

[Congressman Chuy García @RepChuyGarcia]

Me preocupa profundamente la injerencia descarada de altos funcionarios estadounidenses, incluido el presidente Trump, en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia.

Insto a la administración Trump a respetar la soberanía de Colombia, examinar las graves acusaciones en torno al Abelardo De La Espriella y permitir que el pueblo colombiano elija libremente su propio futuro.

[Mark Weisbrot @MarkWeisbrot]

Trump’s intervention in Colombia’s Sunday election is yet another example of how he – and the US government – intervenes and causes grave political and economic damage in Latin America. US intervention in Brazil helped put Lula in jail in 2018, thus Bolosonaro as president.The US-backed coup in Bolivia in 2019 that overthrew Evo Morales led to the right-wing, anti-democratic government there today. And the tens of billions of dollars that Argentine President Javier Milei got from institutions dominated by Washington: The IMF, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank have been essential to his political survival.

These are just a few examples from recent years. And now Trump, complete with threats – as he successfully used in Honduras 6 months ago– is trying to choose the next President, in Colombia. https://t.co/GhMzjysXoi

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

The future of Colombia should be decided by the Colombian people alone—not by American politicians trying to tip the scales or interfere in another country’s elections.

20 Members of Congress are calling on the U.S. to respect Colombian sovereignty.

Read our statement here:
https://t.co/sAEVzMls5X

[Marcus Stanley @MarcusMStanley]

Reminder that nobody has to speculate on whether Graham Platner is a Nazi from a muddy tattoo he got to look like a badass when he was a 22 year old Marine.

We have years of his anonymous Reddit posts - like this one - before he ever got into politics. They are consistently anti-fascist and anti-Nazi.

In fact the original Republican attack line on him was that he was excessively Antifa. It was only after that didn't work that they switched to the "tattoo nazi" line.

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

Una de las peores cancilleres de la historia:
- Alineamiento absoluto y vergonzoso ante Trump. (Sommerfeld nunca entendió que la política exterior es para defender los intereses nacionales y no los intereses extranjeros.)
- Silencio cómplice ante las ejecuciones extrajudiciales de ecuatorianos por parte de Estados Unidos.
- Ruptura de relaciones (por primera vez en nuestra historia) con México fruto del asalto a su embajada en Quito. Ecuador condenada y aislada en la CELAC, en la OEA, y en la comunidad internacional en general.
- Expulsión (por primera vez en nuestra historia) del personal diplomático cubano (sin explicación alguna), saldándose en el cierre de la embajada de Cuba.
- Apoyo al primer ataque militar de Estados Unidos a territorio sudamericano (insisto, "sudamericano", no "latinoamericano") en nuestra historia. Traición histórica al legado de los próceres de nuestra independencia colectiva.
- Intromisión descarada en las elecciones colombianas, un país hermano y vecino, mediante la imposición de aranceles ilegales y arbitrarios, condenados por la CAN. Debilitamiento por ende de la misma CAN, y consecuencias adversas para la economía ecuatoriana e interrupción del suministro de energía desde Colombia, etc.
- Apoyo irrestricto a Israel durante el genocidio en Gaza (una mancha eterna que no podrá nunca borrar Ecuador frente a este momento histórico para la humanidad entera). Visitas a Israel en medio del genocidio para ratificar su vasallaje y, además, entregarle varios aspectos importantes del manejo de nuestra seguridad.
- Nula defensa de nuestros migrantes y apoyo a las deportaciones de ecuatorianos de Trump.
- Conflicto con Rusia por el ofrecimiento de equipamiento ruso para entrega a Ucrania vía Estados Unidos. Seguido del papelón del tener que echarse para atrás por las amenazas económicas rusas.
- Socavamiento sistemático (menos conocido pero para mí muy grave) de las posiciones históricas del Ecuador en los espacios multilaterales, incluido en Naciones Unidas. Cambio de políticas de Estado sostenidas por Ecuador durante décadas más allá del clivaje correísmo-anticorreísmo.
- Comprensión deficiente o nula de los conceptos esenciales de las relaciones internacionales y principios de la política exterior. Marcada incompetencia en la gestión diplomática y carencia de criterio o rigor técnico.
- Entre tantas otras falencias que seguramente se me olvidan en este momento. Un desastre para el Ecuador.

[Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @repdeliaramirez]

The United States' intervention in the free, democratic processes across Latin America must end!

Donald Trump and the U.S. government must respect the voice and vote of Colombians and end any attempt to further interfere in their elections. Colombia's future belongs to Colombians.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Israel has used American-supplied munitions to kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians.

America is morally obligated to end support of Israel’s devastation of Gaza and its people. I’m cosponsoring the Block the Bombs Act to limit the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨🇪🇨 Reports of sexual torture, mass starvation, physical abuse, and tuberculosis are emerging from Ecuador’s military-controlled prisons while the government expands security cooperation with U.S. Southern Command.

Drop Site contributor Camila Galarza-Zavala reports from Quito that one inmate died every seven hours over the past year, pushing prison deaths to their highest level in recent history and surpassing the era when drug cartels controlled the prison system. Among the detainees are former left-wing Vice President Jorge Glas, who lost 30 pounds and was found unconscious after allegedly being denied food and medical care; Omar Campoverde, a member of the Marxist Movimiento Guevarista, who says he was sexually assaulted by prison guards; and Aquiles Alvarez, the elected mayor of Ecuador’s largest city, who has been held by the state for the past three months.

The crackdown on political prisoners comes as Washington deepens its support for the Ecuadorian government, supplying Pentagon bombs and deploying military personnel.

The photographs accompanying this report were taken inside Ecuadorian prisons by inmates between 2024 and 2025 and shared with their families to expose conditions behind bars. They were first published by journalist Karol Noroña for CONNECTAS.

@sovietwithsazon for Drop Site News

[Ernesto Samper Pizano @ernestosamperp]

La declaración del presidente Trump (@POTUS) apoyando la candidatura inmoral de @AbelardoPTE constituye una vulgar e inaceptable intervención en los asuntos internos del país, que pone en grave peligro la alianza construida durante muchos años entre Colombia y Estados Unidos por diferentes gobiernos y partidos para luchar contra el narcotráfico y el crimen internacional.
Esta agresiva intromisión en la democracia colombiana, repetida ya en varios países de América Latina, debe ser rechazada por todos los colombianos en las próximas elecciones, votando por la defensa de nuestra soberanía en cabeza de @IvanCepedaCast y de su trayectoria limpia y nacionalista.
Presidente Trump: saque, por favor, sus manos de Colombia y de América Latina.

[Noticias RCN @NoticiasRCN]

Tras los resultados de la primera vuelta electoral, Claudia López aseguró que "Colombia se enfrenta al riesgo de perder su democracia". Hizo un llamado a los colombianos a reflexionar y tomar una decisión.

[Jake Johnston @JakobJohnston]

Last week, Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa was in DC hand-waving human rights concerns and cozying up to the Trump administration. Today, @guardian reports on the huge increase in forced disappearances and torture by Ecuadorian state security forces in the US-backed "war on narco-terror."

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Lots of signals pointing towards an imminent US regime change operation against Cuba. The latest is this blatant effort to launder a pretext for war through the media, but also: 1) plan to indict Raul Castro, 2) CIA Director visit to Cuba, 3) increased intelligence collection

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

No country in the current economic and military situation that Cuba is in would ever preemptively strike a super power like the US. This is just propaganda to build a case for an invasion of Cuba.

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

⚠️Durísima carta de congresistas de Estados Unidos en la que denuncian la «alarmante deriva autoritaria y antidemocrática» del presidente Daniel Noboa. Piden al Pentágono que suspenda de inmediato las operaciones militares conjuntas con las fuerzas ecuatorianas en vista de «las denuncias de graves violaciones de los derechos humanos y el bombardeo de lo que parecen haber sido instalaciones civiles durante las operaciones militares conjuntas de Estados Unidos y Ecuador llevadas a cabo en el norte de Ecuador a principios de marzo».

https://t.co/xnKfsiTcRw

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

CNN recognising that the Cuban crisis is the result of U.S. asphyxiation. (Not always been the discourse.) And that Cuba's solar revolution is one of the fastest energy transitions on the planet today.

[CEPR @ceprdc]

#BREAKING: A new poll by YouGov, sponsored by CEPR, finds that 64 percent of Americans oppose the US going to war against #Cuba, while 15 percent support it and 21 percent are not sure.

Among those who express a view, 81 percent are against a war.

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

A return to US neocolonial rule. Remember, Cuba and Puerto Rico were the first imperial US outposts from 1898, then Panama from 1903. Panama is crucial because of its location and control of the canal. It will remain a a strategic forward location from where the US will attempt to “recolonize” the rest of the continent.

[CEPR @ceprdc]

#Cuba's infant mortality rate rose 148% from 2019 to 2025 during a period of unprecedented expansion and tightening of the US commercial and financial embargo against the island, a new CEPR report by Alex Main, Joe Sammut, @MarkWeisbrot, and @GuillaumeLong finds.

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

BREAKING NEWS: 🇨🇴 President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro:

"If the United States does not rethink their policy toward Latin America, there will be a rebellion. You cannot continue to believe that the security of one nation rests on the hunger of neighboring nations. You have designed a policy that consists of extracting our wealth, blocking our economies, and dictating how we must live, while we bear the deaths of a drug conflict that you have already lost in your own streets."

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

Bloomberg is right. Noboa has banned the largest opposition party in the run-up to the next election. He now controls all the courts: judicial independence is no more. And he's buying out the media. So "consolidating power" is a bit of a euphemism. It's an authoritarian project