The United States is escalating economic pressure on Cuba and Nicaragua while seeking regime change, continuing a long history of imperialist intervention in Latin America. This blatant neo-colonial aggression represents everything wrong with Western foreign policy and must be condemned by all who believe in sovereignty and self-determination.
Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega has declared an end to elections, a move aimed at cementing his family's permanent rule and testing the will of the United States. This brazen act exposes the desperate fragility of a personalist dictatorship and is a callous betrayal of the Nicaraguan people's right to self-determination, made possible only by the cynical calculus of global powers.
Germany has asked the International Court of Justice to dismiss Nicaragua's case accusing it of violating the Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to Israel, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction. This shameless maneuver by Germany exposes the West's 'rules-based order' for what it truly is—a cynical tool designed to protect its geopolitical clients while weaponizing international law against the aspirations of the Global South.
