Venezuela: Una lógica colonial y expansionista

Reconocer que la intervención de Estados Unidos en Venezuela responde a una lógica colonial no implica, en absoluto, negar el dolor, el sufrimiento, los asesinatos ni las violencias producidas por el régimen de Maduro, y en ningún caso invalida el sentimiento devenido tras la “aparente eliminación” del régimen.

Tampoco supone defender su continuidad en el poder. Hacer esa lectura limita y bloquea el análisis y lo reduce a una posición que, lejos de justificar un régimen autoritario, intenta complejizar una realidad atravesada por relaciones históricas profundamente desiguales entre Abya Yala y Estados Unidos.

Guest WriterJanuary 15, 2026Comment

Trauma, Memory, Resistance: Healing in a Wounded Nation

The Wound Beneath the Skin

America is a nation in denial about its wounds. The traumas that shaped this country—slavery, genocide, segregation, displacement, mass incarceration—have never healed because they have never been acknowledged. Instead, we are told to “move on,” to “look forward,” to “let it go.” But you cannot heal a wound you refuse to name. And the longer it festers beneath the surface, the more it poisons everything it touches.

Felicia ThompsonDecember 4, 2025Comment

The Robbery at the Louvre is a Lesson on Hubris

The Louvre was robbed. It took less than eight minutes to remove what France held in infamy for centuries. The country has a history of stealing, and the theft left the country a bit scandalized. Some historians were heartbroken, but many casual observers thought the museum and the country got what they deserved.

In the days that followed, it was clear that the Louvre had already been aware of its poor security. The jewels, being invaluable, were not insured. Security in museums maintains the integrity of the visuals. They ensure that the oils from our hands aren’t aging the paintings, that the flash from ou

Ruth Jean-MarieNovember 20, 2025Comment

Bad Bunny to Perform at the Superbowl: the Truth About Who Can Be Deported

The Internet has been in an uproar about Puerto Rico’s status as a part of the U.S. Benito Antonio “Bad Bunny” Martínez Ocasio continues to tour around the world conspicuously leaving the “mainland” United States off of his tour. His original reasoning surrounded the continuous ICE raids that terrorize communities across the country. As a result, his acceptance of the Super Bowl LX performance felt contradictory to some. Others, reminding the world that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and also a part of his tour, thought it diligent to dismiss his efforts altogether.

Ruth Jean-MarieNovember 13, 2025Comment

Collective Amnesia: The Weaponization of Forgetting

America has never been forgetful by accident. Forgetting is one of its oldest strategies of survival—for the powerful, not the people. This country doesn’t suffer from memory loss; it suffers from selective recall. It remembers who built the skyscrapers, not who built the railroads. It remembers who signed the Declaration, not who was enslaved when it was written. Forgetting here is not a lapse—it’s law.

Felicia ThompsonNovember 6, 2025Comment

“Niceness is not morality; it is social control,” says Amira Barger, author of The Price of Nice

We asked Amira Barger a few questions about her book, which will be released tomorrow, October 28. Her answers are sharp, thoughtful, and full of insight. This isn’t just a Q&A that makes you want to read the book (though you definitely will); it actually leaves you with something real to think about.

Barger has worked with us several times before, and it’s an honor to talk with her just before this book reaches, hopefully, many people for whom being “nice” has been both an expectation and a burden.

AHUS EditorialOctober 30, 2025Comment

Fascism in 2025 America: A Warning and Call to Action

Fiction has never struggled to name tyranny. We root for Katniss against the Capitol, for the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire, for Dumbledore’s Army against Voldemort’s regime. Ultranationalism and mythic populism are no longer just plot devices. In 2025 America, our drift toward authoritarianism is a political reality, and the courage we cheer in our favorite stories feels conspicuously absent on our own streets.

Amira BargerOctober 9, 2025Comment

From GITMO to Gaza–Technology, Genocide, and U.S. Neocolonialism

In May and June of 1912, the newly formed Cuban government, under the direct support and advisement of the United States, committed genocide with indiscriminate brutality and violence targeting Black Cubans in the Eastern region of the island (Oriente). The murder and disappearance of 5,000 Black Cubans happened under the guise of defending Cuba against the rebelling Black “racists” of Cuba’s first Black political party, El Partido Independiente de Color (PIC). In the period of modern colonialism and neocolonialism, the 1912 massacre proved itself as a testing ground for technological advancements and new and advanced weaponry later used during WWI, as well as in the US occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1915 and 1916, respectively. Nevertheless, this genocide also allows us to understand the context of Cuba and the greater Caribbean under colonial and neocolonial control before 1959.

Lisa V. BettyOctober 2, 2025Comment