Everything is connected
Lithuanian authorities accused Russia’s GRU military intelligence service on Friday, January 16, 2026, of masterminding the attempted arson attacks of a plant that supplies radio wave scanners to Ukraine’s army.
The group that coordinated the attack was made up of Colombian and Cuban citizens living in Russia, and had attempted similar arson attacks. They had targeted oil infrastructure in Romania, construction warehouses in Poland and buses, a post office, and a cinema in the Czech Republic.
Around 4:40 a.m. on Jan. 6, just a few days after the US capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, armed men intercepted a bus carrying civilians and several policemen on the main highway near Tibú, a town on the Colombian side of the border with Venezuela. They ordered passengers to hand over their phones for inspection, and then proceeded to kidnap five police officers.
The assailants were members of the National Liberation Army, or E.L.N., a Colombian guerrilla group that started off mounting a leftist insurgency in the 1960s but has since expanded into criminal enterprises. As many as half of its roughly 6,300 fighters are now based in Venezuela, where they have, at least until this month, enjoyed an alliance of mutual convenience with the government.
Continue reading “Something is brewing along the Colombia‒Venezuela border”
“The shadow of the interventionist eagle looms over everyone equally. We urge you to put aside these differences.”
– Nestor Gregorio Vera
The leader of the largest dissident branch of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group called on other rebel groups to come together to fight US interventionism in the region.
Aboard Air Force One, Trump said, “Cuba looks like it’s ready to fall,” and “Colombia is very sick too.” That comes one day after the US military and civilian agencies illegally invaded Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro.
On Sunday, January 4, 2026, Trump renewed his calls for an US takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland.
Continue reading “Trump’s plans for Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Iran [Updated]”