By Raúl Antonio Capote on October 2, 2026
cartoon by Moro
The U.S. Government’s War is against the Entire Cuban People
Washington’s new measures against the Cuban private sector, announced on September 29 and 30, 2026, are not just another technical adjustment to the embargo. They represent a surgical strike against the heart of the reforms that Cuba has been trying to implement since June, when it approved 176 changes to boost its economy for the benefit of society. (more…)
September 30, 2026
Threats! Made in USA
“The new unilateral coercive measures approved by the U.S. government, in addition to further tightening the grip on Cuba, unmask those who claim they are only against the Cuban government and its companies,” said Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, on Wednesday.
“These actions against the Cuban private sector clearly demonstrate that their sole intention is to cause maximum suffering to our people and limit the implementation of economic and social transformations,” he said. (more…)
By Nina Fideles on October 1, 2026
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during a campaign rally in Fortaleza, Ceará. foto: Ricardo Stuckert
On October 4, more than 150 million Brazilian voters will head to the polls to decide what could be one of the most polarized elections in the country’s recent history. It will also be one of the most closely watched from abroad, with direct implications for ongoing geopolitical disputes around the world. Furthermore, it will be marked as the final election campaign for Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT), who is seeking his fourth term. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris on September 30, 2026
Acting President Delcy Rodriguez at the UN. September, 2026. Johanna Alarcón for WSJ.
Underneath the appearance of “normalcy” in the ongoing relationship between Venezuela and the US lies a manifest asymmetry of power. Even commentators from mainstream international news outlets frame their analyses by drawing attention to the proverbial US gun held to acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s head and, by implication, to the whole Chavista movement. That movement, founded by Hugo Chávez and carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, has broadly united behind her. (more…)
By John Perry on September 30, 2026
meeting in Estelí
Nicaragua’s electoral reforms seek to defend popular sovereignty as Washington intensifies its interference in Latin American elections.
Last week I was at a local neighborhood meeting in the Nicaraguan city of Masaya. More than a hundred people had come to hear a report from a doctor from the local health center and from a teacher at the technical college where the meeting was being held. We learnt about the attention being given to pregnant women (currently 11 pregnancies in the area), the mobile health clinic that would be arriving soon and new agricultural courses starting at the college, which opened only three years ago. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on September 28, 2026
fotos: Yaimi Ravelo
While the dignity and ethics of Cuban diplomacy at the United Nations went viral on social media, inside the country was pulsating from within its neighborhoods in keeping with the most genuine principles being defended on the international stage and upheld daily by the brave people of Cuba. (more…)
By Ignacio Ramonet on September 28, 2026
The first thing that struck one about Fidel Castro was neither his uniform, nor his stature, nor even his eloquence. It was his curiosity. After long hours of interviews for my book Fidel Castro: My Life (A Spoken Autobiography), when everyone was exhausted, the Comandante continued to ask questions, to request clarifications, and to return to historical or scientific details with intact energy. I have often thought that this was the secret of his political longevity: before being a man of power, Fidel was a restless intellectual, a visionary genius, a man of knowledge. (more…)
The José Martí Association of Cubans Residing in Mexico expressed its rejection in Mexico City of a meeting convened by sectors of the Latin American right wing, scheduled for Wednesday, the 30th, in the Mexican capital.