October 24, 2025 from Bogota Colombia.
President Gustavo Petro stated to hundreds of thousands rallying in Colombia yesterday, that Colombia is suffering a mafia-style extortion from a foreign government that is trying to force it to accept the designs of another king. (more…)
October 25, 2025
Mexico calls for transparency over the deaths of ten nationals in U.S. immigration custody or operations. Photo: @elespectador
Mexico has urged Washington to conduct transparent investigations after ten Mexican citizens died while in U.S. immigration custody or during ICE operations under President Donald Trump’s administration. (more…)
By Frei Betto on October 22, 2025
Gambling has never been easier. Before, to lose money, people had to make an effort: find a “jogo do bicho” betting spot or take a chance at an underground casino. Today, all they have to do is open a colorful app, choose whether the Palmeiras soccer team will win a corner kick in the 12th minute, and voilà! There goes the 100 reais they had set aside to buy a cooking gas cylinder. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 26, 2025
Marco Rubio (right) and Félix Rodríguez, the assassin who claims responsibility for Che’s death in La Higuera.
Marco Rubio has unleashed an aggressive campaign of falsehoods and bullying to secure votes against Cuba in the United Nations General Assembly. With one week to go before the annual vote on the blockade of Cuba, the Secretary of State has launched a diplomatic offensive to try to shift the balance: not so much to add “no” votes as to transform affirmative votes into abstentions or absences. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 30, 2025
Yolanda Colom and Mario Payeras. Courtesy of: Ediciones del Pensativo
The voice that greets me is gentle, though every word seems shaped by years of struggle and memory. Yolanda Colom*, once a guerrilla leader in the Ejercito Guerrillero de los Pobres of Guatemala — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) — begins her story with a quiet laugh, after I asked her for brief recount on the Guatemala of her childhood: “I’m quite old now,” she says, “almost seventy. But I remember it perfectly.” (more…)
By Ed Newman on October 24, 2025
Cuba is a country that has been, more than blockaded, I would say tortured.
Silvio Rodríguez to Rolling Stone (more…)
October 21, 2025 from Caracas
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, left, with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, Miraflores Palace, Caracas, in October 2022. Photo: Rayner Pena
President Nicolás Maduro said Monday that he will always close ranks with Colombia, whose president, Gustavo Petro, was accused—without evidence—Sunday by his US counterpart, Donald Trump, of being a “leader of illegal drug trafficking.” (more…)
By Francisco Delgado Rodríguez on October 22, 2025
The well-known thinker of the Prussian era, Carl von Clausewitz, left posterity with an iconic concept about war, stating that it was nothing more than a continuation of politics by other means. In other words, fractured domestic politics hinders and seriously jeopardizes even the most elaborate war plans. (more…)