By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 26, 2025 from Havana
The vertigo and harshness of the events that overwhelm us leave, as a result, the dissolution of evil: it is erased by habit, it becomes trivial, a nonsense. What other explanation is there for Donald Trump’s announcement that the “cause” of autism is the consumption of acetaminophen during pregnancy, and the “evidence” lies in the fact that Cubans supposedly do not suffer from the disorder because there is no way to pay for the medicine on the island? (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 25, 2025
The Council rejected the US State Department report accusing Venezuela of being a drug-producing and transit country. Photo: Cuban Foreign Ministry
The 26th Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) concluded on Wednesday with a powerful final declaration underscoring the alliance’s continued resistance to foreign intervention and reaffirmation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. The council meeting brought together high-level representatives from ALBA-TCP member states, who jointly expressed concern over escalating threats to peace, sovereignty, and regional stability—particularly those stemming from the imperialist aggression orchestrated by the United States. (more…)
By Richard Emblin on September 25, 2025
Petro at the UN
Colombian President Gustavo Petro used his final address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 23 to deliver a blistering denunciation of U.S. foreign policy and President Donald Trump, calling for criminal charges against the U.S. leader, and accusing Washington of complicity in genocide. (more…)
By Abel Prieto Jimenez, from Havana, Casa de las Américas, on September 25, 2025
Abel Prieto Jiménez, Views from the Web
At the Third World Meeting of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity that was held in Caracas, Bolivarian Venezuela, in December 2004. Commander Chávez welcomed more than 400 participants from 52 countries and encouraged them to go on the offensive to face “one of the greatest challenges in the world today.” (more…)
By Emir Sader on September 24, 2025 from Rio de Janeiro
Lula at the UN, photo: AFP
As is tradition at every opening of the UN General Assembly, the presidents of Brazil and the US are the first to take the floor. But rarely, as on this occasion, have the speeches of both leaders been so diametrically opposed. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on September 24, 2025
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens in the White House in Washington on September 22, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein / AP
This week, perhaps the most prominent news story about the ongoing reality show unfolding in the White House was related to the content of the US president’s speech to the high-level segment of the United Nations General Assembly, the breakdown of his teleprompter, and the escalator he was using to get to the plenary session. (more…)
US President Donald Trump of the 193 countries of the world on Tuesday that their nations are “going to hell” because of uncontrolled migration. Photo Xinhua
By Jim Cason and David Brooks, Washington DC and NYC on Sept. 23, 2025
US President Donald Trump declared at a meeting of all 193 countries of the world on Tuesday that their nations are “going to hell” because of uncontrolled immigration and the “hoax” of climate change, insisting that they can only be saved if they work with the United States. (more…)
September 23, 2025 from New York City
The president of Brazil during his speech to the UN General Assembly Photo: United Nations.
“It is unacceptable that Cuba is on the list of state sponsors of terrorism,” Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. (more…)