By Adam Kendal on May 28, 2025
May 1, 2025, Plaza of the Revolution, Havana photo: Bill Hackwell
For many Canadians, the US blockade on Cuba is thought to be a relic of the Cold War, either a product of the Soviet era or something eased under Obama’s “Cuban thaw.” This misconception allows American imperialism to go unchecked and obscures the enduring reality of one of the longest and most inhumane economic wars in modern history. In truth, the US blockade is still in full force, and under the Trump administration, it has become even more aggressive, tightening its stranglehold on the Cuban people. (more…)
By Charlie Hinton on May 28, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
The United States government is threatening mass deportations of Haitians enrolled in two programs – Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the Haitian Family Reunification Parole (HFRP) Program. Temporary Protected Status (TPS) allows foreign nationals from designated countries to live and work in the US temporarily due to unsafe conditions in their home countries – like ongoing armed conflict or an environmental disaster – that would prevent them from returning home safely. (more…)
May 25, 2025
Remittances are a lifeline for millions of Mexican families.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would impose a 3.5% remittance tax on funds sent abroad by individuals who are not U.S. citizens, disappointing some Mexican officials. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on May 28, 2025
New deputies and legislators who were proclaimed by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The pro-government alliance achieved a sweeping victory in Venezuela’s May 25 elections, while a fractured opposition suffered losses. Western media distorted the results – spinning low turnout claims, ignoring the role of illegal US sanctions, and offering selective sympathy to elite opposition figures. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 27, 2025
Daniel Noboa, rich kid turned president
The official results of the second round of elections held in Ecuador on April 13 do not reflect the electoral reality. This race, where incumbent president Daniel Noboa obtained the victory, “was a mega fraud against the candidate Luisa Gonzalez, of the Citizen Revolution movement, and we will file a lawsuit for alleged embezzlement,” the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, stated to the media recently. (more…)
By Marina Menéndez Quintero on May 26, 2025 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
On Tuesday, Venezuela began a new stage in the Bolivarian process, consolidated by Sunday’s resounding electoral victory.
The vote in the recent Venezuelan legislative and regional elections is another refutation of the fraud thesis put forward since the July 2024 presidential elections by the violent right wing, which, as on other occasions, opted not to participate in the contest and called for abstention. This places that sector as a self-proclaimed political pariah, without credibility, as it continues to operate “outside” Venezuela’s institutional framework. (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on May 26, 2025 from Caracas
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro led a celebratory rally outside Miraflores Palace on Sunday night and hailed a “victory of peace and stability.”
Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) and political allies emerged as overwhelming victors in Sunday’s regional and parliamentary elections.
According to the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE), the Great Patriotic Pole received around 4.55 million votes, 82.7 percent of the total cast, in the election for the unicameral National Assembly. It was followed by the Democratic Alliance and UNT-Única, two opposition coalitions, with 6.25 and 5.18 percent, respectively. (more…)
May 27, 2025
Kilmar Ábrego García was deported from the United States to El Salvador despite having legal status that protected him. He is described as one of more than 200 migrants expelled from the US and sent to high-security prisons in El Salvador without access to family or lawyers. (more…)