By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on March 13, 2025
Notorious military contractor Erik Prince, meeting with Ecuador President Daniel Noboa, son of the richest person in the country.
Ecuador is preparing for the second round of presidential elections, marked by a strong background of drug trafficking violence, especially in the city of Guayaquil. President Daniel Noboa, candidate for reelection, announced that he was entering into a “strategic alliance” with Erik Prince, a controversial figure providing private paramilitary services and founder of the Blackwater firm. (more…)
By Camilo Alejandro on March 14, 2025 from Havana
A hundred and thirty years after the untimely death of Jose Marti, and in the midst of the socioeconomic hardship the Cubans face, his ideas continue to inspire visual artists on the Island.
Hermaiony de la Caridad Villa Machado is one of the most renowned up and coming visual artists in Cuba. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 13, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Marco Rubio –Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him – is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize. (more…)
By Bert Wilkinson on March 11, 2025 from Georgetown Guyana
Cuban doctors arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, June 8, 2020, after traveling to Italy to help with the COVID-19 emergency response. Photo: Ismael Francisco -AP
Caribbean leaders are pushing back against a new U.S. policy that aims to crack down on Cuban medical missions, saying that the work of hundreds of Cuban medical staff across the region is essential. (more…)
March 12, 2025
Argentinian soccer fans have organized themselves to march in defense of pensioners this Wednesday in a new protest against the government of Javier Milei over the cuts to pensions. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on March 11, 2025 from Buenos Aires
In his address to both houses of Congress on March 1, President Javier Milei reiterated that one of the objectives of his administration is to reduce the size of the state in Argentina to 25% of the GDP. We are not going to dwell on refuting, from the point of view of the history of economic ideas or economic theory, the nonsense of his proposal. (more…)
March 11, 2025
Ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo during a court hearing. Photo: EFE.
Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced a hunger strike on Monday, March 10, denouncing what he calls a “judicial injustice” in his ongoing trial for rebellion and abuse of authority. Castillo, who faces a 34-year prison sentence, claims the process is politically motivated, despite his 2021 election as Peru’s constitutional president. (more…)
La Jornada editorial from Mexico City on March 11, 2025
Illustration: Getty Images, I stock
The extremism and lack of coherence that have characterized Donald Trump’s administration in the less than two months he has been in the White House have caused economic setbacks that yesterday led to a fall in the stock markets, both at home and abroad: on Wall Street the S&P and Dow Jones indexes reached record lows, (more…)