By Isaac Saney on November 18, 2025
‘For Cuba, we’ll create together’ – Havana, May 1, 2025. foto: Bill Hackwell
Every few years, The Economist resurrects a familiar script: Cuba is collapsing; Cuba is imploding; Cuba must “change drastically”—invariably in the direction of neoliberalism and U.S. tutelage. Its November 18, 2025 article, dripping with manufactured pity and well-rehearsed contempt, repeats this tired chorus. With moral indignation, it lists prices of eggs and rice, invokes the spectre of humanitarian crisis, and declares—again—that Cuba is heading toward disaster. (more…)
By Gustav Cederlöf and Sophie Blackburn on November 15, 2025
Cubans ride through a flooded road near Santiago de Cuba. AP foto: Ramón Espinosa
Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths. (more…)
By Emir Olivares y Néstor Jiménez, from Mexico City on November 18, 2025
“It’s not going to happen,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo in response to statements made by her US counterpart, Donald Trump, who yesterday said he could launch attacks against Mexico to prevent drugs from entering US territory. (more…)
November 18, 2025
President Nicolas Maduro and Ignacio Ramonet Nov. 2025.
Spanish writer Ignacio Ramonet holds an exclusive conversation with the Bolivarian leader.
I am in Venezuela to present, at the Caracas Book Fair, my new work: “The Infinite Conversation” (Acirema Publishing), a compilation of interviews with 10 geniuses. I arrive here at a particular moment because this country could be attacked at any time. (more…)
November 17, 2025
Election day, which brought out more than 13.9 million Ecuadorians, passed peacefully. Photo: EFE
The “No” vote won in the referendum across the country
What did Ecuadorians reject?
The results of the popular consultation and referendum in Ecuador, held this Sunday, gave a clear advantage to the “No” option on the four key questions promoted by the government of US backed President Daniel Noboa, in a day characterized by high citizen participation. The initiatives promoted by President Noboa, supposedly focused on “protecting national sovereignty”. (more…)
November 16, 2025
“Our future is not for sale” Fotos: Ivan Pisarenko/AFP
Indigenous-led protest in Belem urges climate action, fossil fuel phase-out and justice for affected communities.
Tens of thousands of people have thronged the streets of an Amazonian city hosting the COP30 talks, dancing to pounding speakers in the first large-scale protest at a United Nations climate summit in years. (more…)
November 15, 2025
Nicolas Maduro greets people during a demonstration on Youth Day in Caracas. foto: AFP
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has urged the people of the United States to unite with Venezuela for the peace of the Americas. He made the remarks in the middle of a mass rally on Youth Day in Caracas on Thursday amid heightened tensions with the US. (more…)
By Ben Norton on November 14, 2025
Maria Corina Machado
María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup leader who has been funded by the US government since at least 2003. The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, and if it can succeed in overthrowing the leftist government of President Nicolás Maduro, Machado would help to lead the new pro-US regime in Caracas. (more…)