June 5, 2025
Alberto Núñez
During the 11th Parliamentary Forum of BRICS, a bloc initially composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and recently expanded, Cuban deputy Alberto Núñez strongly rejected Washington’s blockade against the island, which he described as a “suffocating economic war.” (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on June 3, 2025
photo: Saul Loeb / AFP
Donald Trump was characterized by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong as the president who always ends up giving in after vociferously promoting impulsive, presumptuous, and confusing measures. Last Wednesday, the president of the United States was asked about the acronym TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out), coined by Armstrong. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on June 5, 2025
Mike Hammer, chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Cuba, during his meeting with Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez on April 25. Photo taken from X @USEmbCuba
“Excuse me, but I am the one who handles Cuba’s affairs.” Fidel Castro’s blunt response to a US State Department official has been circulating in diplomatic circles for decades. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on June 2, 2025
Less! illustration: Adán Iglesias Toledo
The division within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia poses an enormous danger to the democratic forces of the left and, if no change occurs, opens the door for the right-wing opposition to win the presidential elections on August 17. (more…)
By Becca Renk on June 5, 2025
Since 2007, Nicaragua has managed to reduce maternal mortality by 79.8%, reduce neonatal mortality by 62.5% and reduce infant mortality rates by 58.6%.
I gave birth to both of my daughters at home with an attending OB/GYN, a pediatrician, a nurse, my husband Paul as support, Kathleen as a doula, various other members of our community in the room, and in the case of my older daughter, also with the pet monkey Bella watching from outside the window. (“You told me it was just going to be two people,” the doctor chided me afterward, “You never mentioned the monkey!”) (more…)
Dr. Issam Khawaja
The International Committee for Peace, Justice, and Dignity demands the immediate release of the eminent pediatric neurologist Dr. Issam Khawaja, who was detained on June 4 as he left the Al-Bashir Hospital where he works. (more…)
Article and photos by Tiago Ramírez Baquero on June 1, 2025
Alejandro Sapere, a psychologist at Bonaparte hospital during a demonstration for 200 people who were fired to return to their jobs.
In March, 200 workers were dismissed from the Laura Bonaparte Hospital as part of Milei’s drastic cuts to the country’s public budget. Mental health care has deteriorated, having dire effects on patients.
Psychologist María José Conforti finished her workday after 12 intense hours in mental health emergency services. It was a very long day because in the morning she had medical examinations, a requirement every year to be employed at the Laura Bonaparte Mental Health Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Five minutes after the end of the workday, her employer, the Health Ministry, sent her a letter in her mailbox firing her. The dismissal came without prior notice and the message was “totally depersonalized.” (more…)
By Editorial de Acciòn Ecològica on June 3, 2025.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Fukushima: these are names that send shivers down our spines. The first two remind us of the atrocities that can result from a war involving nuclear weapons; the latter two highlight the danger posed by one of the most dangerous technologies in existence: nuclear power. (more…)