September 8, 2025
Residente’s Concert in Mexico City of 180,000 fans to protest Gaza genocide,at one of the city’s largest cultural event ever. foto: Jair Cabrera Torres
The Residente Gaza Concert Protest on September 6, 2025, brought an estimated 180,000 people together in Mexico City’s iconic Plaza del Zócalo. Renowned Puerto Rican musician René Pérez Joglar, known as Residente, used the free concert as a platform to demand justice for Palestine and call for a world free from war, emphasizing his enduring commitment to social causes and denouncing the genocide perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza Strip. (more…)
September 11, 2025, Caracas
Venezuela’s National Electric Corporation (CORPOELEC) has reported a criminal attack on the National Electric System (SEN) in an incident affecting two transmission lines in eastern Venezuela, which interrupted services until power was restored in what the agency called record time. (more…)
By Dariel Pradas and Reed Lindsay on September 11, 2025, Havana Cuba
Cuba has long been an international powerhouse in sports like baseball and boxing. Basketball has been an afterthought. But on February 25, 2024, Cuba’s national basketball team did the unthinkable, beating the United States 81-67 in front of a roaring crowd at Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva Coliseum. (more…)
By Belly of the Beast on September 9, 2025
Cuban Women’s volleyball team
The Cuban women’s national volleyball team was denied visas to compete in Puerto Rico. This decision cost them their chance to qualify for international tournaments such as the Olympic Games that will be held in Los Angeles in 2028. (more…)
By Diana Block on September 11, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
On Labor Day weekend 2025, 4,600 people converged in Detroit for the second Peoples Conference for Palestine. Over three very full days, the multi-dimensional meaning and mandate of the banner, Gaza is the Compass, was explored by activists, scholars, artists, labor organizers and elected leaders from across North America and Palestine. Although the U.S. denied visas to almost all participants from Palestine, they were able to share their stories and analysis virtually. As PYM (Palestinian Youth Movement) organizer Taher Daleh declared unequivocally at the opening of the conference, “They have tried to intimidate us with smears, with false accusations, and with every single available threat at their disposal to stop this conference from happening. We will not stop.” (more…)
By Francisco Delgado Rodríguez on September 10, 2025
Milei’s popularity has dropped from 60% to 39% in 7 months.
The results of the parliamentary elections in the province of Buenos Aires could mark a turning point in Argentine politics, to the detriment of La Libertad Avanza, the party structure of Argentine President Javier Milei. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 11, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a press conference on his visit to Mexico, September 3, 2025. Photo: Cristina Rodríguez
Shakespeare has never been more relevant than now. Macbeth’s famous line – “Life is but a shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” – seems to refer to the situation Donald Trump has created in the Caribbean. (more…)
An Interview with Ignacio Ramonet by Geraldina Colotti on September 7, 2025
Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet, journalist, essayist, and international analyst, was the long-time editor of Le Monde diplomatique. In his book The Age of Conspiracy, he analyzed the mechanisms of “Trumpism” that we are now seeing spread to other parts of the world, from Latin America to Europe. We spoke with him about the political crisis in the European Union and the renewed tensions between the United States and Latin American socialist countries. (more…)