By Iliana García Giraldino / Photos: Orlando Perera on July 31, 2025 from Havana
US students who graduated from ELAM this year
The graduation celebration of 11 young Americans from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) was a blend of emotions, humanism, spirituality, social commitment, and energy for the challenges ahead—along with deep gratitude toward Cuba, which congratulated them with the confidence that they will fulfill their duties upon returning to their communities: providing comprehensive healing, solidarity-based, and non-commercial medical care. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on July 30, 2025
Haitian women having their blood pressure taken at a mobile clinic staffed by a Cuban medical brigade in Salomon market in Port-au-Prince.
The Cuban revolution endures despite more than 60 years of U.S. attacks. One system exploits the people, while the other prioritizes their needs. Which nation deserves the label of “failed’? (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on July 31, 2025 from Havana
Trump in Butler Pa. on July 13, 2024, photo: Anna Moneymaker/ Getty Images
Two weeks ago marked the one-year anniversary of the alleged assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time, we took some notes on what seemed like a poorly told official story. More than twelve months later, that assessment has only been reinforced.
As part of the public reaction, both inside and outside the United States, to the events that took place on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, it was almost impossible not to recall the assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 23, 1963. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 31, 2025
Cover of the book “The tyranny of screen nations”. Akal Publishing
In The Tyranny of Screen Nations (Akal, 2025), Andalusian journalist Juan Carlos Blanco issues a warning that is as lucid as it is disturbing: we are no longer governed by states, but by digital platforms that have concentrated economic, cultural, and political power that eclipses that of many nations and transforms citizens into pieces of a social experiment on a planetary scale. (more…)
By Irene Zugasti on July 30, 2025
Joen Suárez, one of the 252 Venezuelans sent to the CECOT, next to his mother Karlyn Fuentes. Photo: Karlos Turrillas/Diario Red
When Joen Suárez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan, was forced into the Salvadoran maximum-security mega-prison known as CECOT (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism), everything was taken from him: his freedom, his time, his rights, his phone, and even his social media accounts, where he made music and shared moments of his life in New York. It is almost as if, by imprisoning him there, they wanted to make him disappear and erase him from the world. (more…)
Article and photos by Iliana García Giraldino on July 29, 2025 from Havana
The presentation of the book “Love is the Law: The Queer Rights Revolution in Cuba,” published in the United States by Struggle-La Lucha, the publishing house of the Struggle for Socialism Party, took place on Tuesday at the Casa de la Amistad in an event that became an expression of solidarity with Cuba, just causes around the world, and the LGBTQ+ community. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on July 28, 2025
“Today, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Cartel of the Suns as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization. The Cartel of the Suns is a criminal group based in Venezuela, led by Nicolás Maduro Moros and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials of the Maduro regime, which provides material support to foreign terrorist organizations that threaten the peace and security of the United States, in particular the Aragua Train and the Sinaloa Cartel.” (more…)
July 29, 2025
Former far-right Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe. Photo: Jose Vargas
On Monday, Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia, 44th judge of the Bogotá criminal court, found former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez guilty of witness bribery and procedural fraud.
The verdict concludes a 13-year judicial process fraught with political tensions, complex evidence, and heated debate over the independence of Colombia’s judiciary. (more…)