By Laidi Fernandez de Juan
Amid this chaotic situation we’re living through—where survival is paramount, and resilience, resourcefulness, and a resigned acceptance of the inevitable prevail—we’re gradually acquiring qualities we never imagined. Those who push us to the limit, impose cruel restrictions on us, and force us into a permanent state of vigilance that wears down our central nervous system—that is, our entire body—failed to calculate the intrinsic nature of the Cuban people: the stubborn strength to invent, to stay afloat, to transform mechanisms and things that were previously unimaginable. This kind of resilience isn’t found in any manual. It’s something we’ve gradually acquired over many years of deprivation and the resulting workarounds. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on August 5, 2026 from Buenos Aires
lula da silva and javier milei foto: AFP
The truth is, I had promised myself I would avoid the temptation to analyze the statements and behavior of Argentina’s president. The reason: to keep myself as far away as possible from a figure as despicable as the occupant of the Casa Rosada. A toxic individual who can poison even those who examine him, like a researcher dissecting a filthy rat and, in doing so, contracting the hantavirus. But his most recent verbal attacks on a man of integrity and a dignified social activist like President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva crossed every line and prompted me to write these few lines about the incident and the man himself. (more…)
August 4, 2026
Protesters participate in demonstrations in various cities of Brazil to demand that the National Congress approve Bill 896/2023. Photo: EFE.
Women’s groups took to the streets this Sunday across several cities of Brazil to demand that the National Congress vote on and immediately approve Bill 896/2023, scheduled for August, which equates misogyny with the crime of racism. (more…)
August 4, 2026
Keiko Fujimori
Peru is experiencing its worst security crisis since the internal armed conflict that took place between 1980 and 2000, with figures reflecting an alarming deterioration: homicides rose from 1,000 in 2018 to 2,600 in 2025, while reports of extortion—one of the crimes that most affects the population—skyrocketed from 3,200 to 26,500 during the same period. (more…)
By Lil María Pichs Hernández
image: Acelo Ruiz Villanueva/ Threads
Since 1959, when Cuba’s foreign policy took a 180-degree turn, like everything else in the country, its foreign relations were consolidated as a clear expression of the Cuban revolutionary paradigm; and no relationship seemed to be more affected than that maintained until then by the successive governments of the Cuban republic, mediated by what for years had been its true capital: Washington. (more…)
August 2, 2026 from Madrid
The Spanish Movement of Solidarity with Cuba (MESC) has denounced in a statement the blocking of containers and increased freight costs for donations destined for Cuba. (more…)
By Becca Renk Foster on August 3, 2026
Inauguration of Palestine Park in Managua, foto: Cesar Perez
Against the backdrop of Israel’s renewed attacks on Palestine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to hold public hearings in September on Nicaragua’s legal proceedings against Germany for aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza by providing weapons to Israel. During its arguments, Nicaragua will certainly avail itself of its experience taking the most powerful nation in the world to the International Court of Justice…and winning. (more…)
August 1, 2026.
The presidential decree brings an end to 24 years of resistance by the MST in the capital of São Paulo, paving the way for the official settlement.
The Brazilian government signs the expropriation of the Irmã Alberta Commune to ratify the right to the land in São Paulo. Photo: Brasil de fato.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the land expropriation decree that declares the land occupied by the Irmã Alberta Land Commune in São Paulo to be in the public interest. The government measure, made official through the Official Gazette of the Union, grants land title to advance the agrarian reform policy and resolve a dispute that has lasted for more than two decades. (more…)