By Jim Cason and David Brooks on July 28, 2025
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
President Donald Trump’s announcement in late June of a series of measures against the Cuban government, followed in July by more visa sanctions against leaders in Havana and additional mechanisms to further restrict Americans from doing business with the island’s tourism sector, were presented as evidence of the new, more aggressive policy toward Cuba promised by the incoming administration. (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on July 28, 2025 from Caracas
The Great Patriotic Pole will govern 23 of 24 state capitals, but the opposition swept all municipalities in Cojedes state. (Alba Ciudad)
The Socialist Party-led Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) emerged with a sweeping majority of municipal offices following the July 27 elections in Venezuela.
The country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) presented a first-results bulletin on Sunday night, reporting that the GPP had secured 280 mayors out of 304 races, with irreversible leads. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on July 28, 2025
A plane of deported Venezuelans arrives back in their homeland to open arms.
By escalating deportations, ending humanitarian protections, and cutting remittances, Trump’s immigration policy threatens to destabilize Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on July 27, 2025
foto: AFP
In the last fifty years, after the Cold War, the United States led the international coalition known as the Gulf War between 1991 and 1992. It then led the invasion of Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021 and, almost simultaneously, the military occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2011. In its two and a half centuries of history—since its founding as a country in 1776—it has been at war for 228 years. (more…)
July 26, 2025 from Caracas
President Nicolás Maduro praised the bonds of brotherhood between Venezuela and Cuba, as today marks the 72nd anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 26, 2025 from Havana
July 26, photo: Bill Hackwell
The importance of July 26 for the new generation of Cubans extends far beyond a historical date; it represents a living challenge to the present and a commitment to the nation’s future. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on July 25, 2025, from Havana
Moncada Barracks; now a school. photos: Bill Hackwell
Seventy-two years ago, in Santiago de Cuba, a group of young people decided they could wait no longer, and on the morning of Saint Anne’s Day, they took a step forward. Assaulting a military barracks was not madness, but an urgent necessity. They knew that people are not born free, but become free. (more…)
By Eman Abusidu on July 26, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, photo: EFE
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has escalated his protest against Israel’s military operations in Gaza by ordering the Navy to intercept and block all coal shipments leaving Colombian ports en route to Israel. This move comes nearly a year after his government issued a formal decree in August 2024 banning coal exports to Israel, a measure intended to express Colombia’s rejection of what Petro has repeatedly called a “genocidal” offensive against the Palestinian population. (more…)