By Gabriela Castillo on November 10, 2026
Gabriella Castillo
What a joy to be back! And for those who may be reading my words for the first time, my name is Gabriela Castillo. I’m a Cuban diplomat and second secretary at the Cuban Embassy in the United States. I’m also a Black woman, a mother and a Cuban who is deeply proud of her roots. (more…)
By Luciano Vasapollo on November 9, 2026 from Rome
There are moments in a country’s history when the stature of a political leader is measured not by the strength of the institutions he represents, but by his ability to fully share in the suffering, the hardships, and the hopes of his people. Miguel Díaz-Canel is going through one of those moments. And he is doing so with a determination that commands respect, even beyond political affiliations and differing assessments of the Cuban government’s decisions. (more…)
November 10, 2026
foto: Brazil Decidesd Brazil, foto: EFE
The Tribunal Superior Electoral, the country’s highest court for electoral disputes, opened its examination of the case on November 10. The complaint was lodged by the coalition that backed Lula da Silva’s victorious campaign. (more…)
By Thania Saucedo on November 10, 2026
People protest outside the home of Paraguay’s ousted President Santiago Pena. foto: AP
Social movements and the popular sector are not limiting their criticism to individual accountability; they are also warning that this crisis is yet another example of the failure of the entire political and economic system. (more…)
By Luciana Bertoia on November 10, 2026 from Cordoba Argentina
the Pope in Cordoba
Alba Camargo was thirteen years old when the dictatorship kidnapped her parents and her uncles and aunts. A few days later, a task force entered her grandparents’ home to take her away. Even though she was just a child, they held her captive for six months at Buen Pastor, a prison run by nuns where political prisoners were held. Fifty years later, Alba was one of 20 people chosen by the Vicariate of the Poor of Córdoba to meet with Pope Leo XIV during his visit to the province.
-“I am a member of a group seeking the remains of the disappeared here in Córdoba.” “Please help us,” Alba asked him when the Pope approached after finishing Mass on the grounds of the Fábrica Argentina de Aviones.
Alba arrived early, around six in the morning. She attended Mass, and as the service was coming to a close, she was summoned along with the other nineteen people. Behind the imposing altar, they would have their moment with Leo XIV.
The Pope approached Alba, who quickly tried to explain whom she represented: the group of family members who, since April of last year, have been pursuing a case known as the “clandestine burials” case, which is being heard in the federal court presided over by Judge Hugo Vaca Narvaja.
–We are searching for our disappeared loved ones, who are right here nearby– she told him, as the pontiff took her hand.
She was struck by the fact that the Pope nodded in agreement: she felt he was well aware of what she was telling him. She handed him a folder detailing the search undertaken by the group behind the lawsuit. She also gave him a letter that the family of Sonia Torres, president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo in Córdoba, had sent her, asking her to do everything possible to help in the search for her grandson and all the others the Grandmothers are looking for.
Alba’s parents, Armando Arnulfo Camargo and María Alicia Bértola, as well as her aunt and uncle, Susana Beatriz Bértola and Juan Carlos Berastegui, were taken to La Perla, a concentration camp that operated between 1976 and 1978 along the highway connecting Córdoba City with Villa Carlos Paz.
Less than 20 kilometers separate the grounds, where the Pope celebrated Mass, from what was once a concentration camp through which an estimated 2,200 to 2,500 people passed.
Posters of the disappeared; Cordoba. foto: Bill Hackwell
During 1976–1983 the regime operated a network of approximately 340 to over 520 clandestine detention centers scattered around the country under the control of the military dictatorship, disappearing over 35,000 people. President Milei says it never happened.
Since September of last year, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF)—assisted by other experts such as geologist Guillermo Sagripanti of the National University of Río Cuarto (UNRC)—has been conducting excavations in an area near La Perla known as La Loma del Torito.
Based on the testimonies of survivors and a local resident, it had been determined that this could be the area where those shot by soldiers from the Third Army Corps were secretly buried.
Some military personnel stated that an operation was carried out to remove the remains before the arrival of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which visited the country in September 1979 to document allegations regarding the existence of disappeared persons and clandestine detention centers.
The EAAF found small, scattered bone fragments, which is consistent with the idea that such a removal operation took place. Since March, remains belonging to 38 disappeared persons have been identified.
They also found the medal worn by Jorge Omar Cazorla, husband of survivor Graciela Geuna and the driving force behind the legal action promoting the search. Cazorla was killed before reaching La Perla. He had managed to escape from the car in which he was being driven to the clandestine detention center, but his captors did not hesitate to shoot him. The murder took place near the place the Pope chose to ask his faithful to cultivate a “grateful memory” and a “fraternal and supportive homeland.”
Source: Pagina 12, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English
The National Birds of Nicaragua and the US
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on November 9, 2026
On November 3, President Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency.” The “emergency” is due to “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in Nicaragua.” Supposedly, this emergency began in November 2018, has persisted for eight years and is expected to continue into 2027. (more…)
November 6, 2026
New York City protest demands the release of President Maduro and First Lady Flores. foto: Fight Back! News.
New York, NY – On November 3, activists rallied outside the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn to demand the release of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. The monthly picket outside the MDC has been going on every month since the illegal kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores on January 3. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on November 8, 2026
image: Adano
Just over a month ago, a MAGA-aligned rightwing juggernaut appeared to be on a roll in Latin America.
The far right had captured every presidential election since Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro was reelected in July 2024. In addition, recent parliamentary elections have landed the Bahamas, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Jamaica in MAGA-aligned alliances such as the Shield of the Americas. (more…)