05-01-2026

An opinion article in The People's Tribune, written by Francio Guadeloupe (KITLV) and journalist and novelist Pedro de Weever on Maduro, Venezuela, Trump, and the implications of the new "Donroe doctrine" for the Caribbean and wider South Americas. Guadeloupe and De Weever focus in their article on the fictive island of "San Cristobal".

San Cristobal is the fictive island of the Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet George Lamming, which is an useful stand in to analyse West Indian particularities.

Read further in the opinion article 'What happened is part of what is happening'.