July 2, 2025
Cuba’s women volleyball team
We are running this article to demonstrate just how far the tentacles of the criminal and mean spirit nature of the US blockade and Trump’s new round of sanctions against Cuba reaches.
The Cuban women’s national volleyball team has been denied US visas to compete in the NORCECA Women’s Final Four tournament in Manatí, Puerto Rico. This decision, confirmed in late June 2025, just weeks before the tournament, has sent shockwaves through the world of international sports and raised important questions about the intersection of immigration policy, sports diplomacy, and the rights of athletes to compete on the global stage. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on July 2, 2025
Xinhua News, Marcos Salgado
Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th and July 5th. Two celebrations. Two flags. Two very different ideas of what it means to be free. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 2, 2025
Paris fashion show makes bold political statement against El Salvador prisons.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused El Salvador of violating international law by detaining 252 Venezuelan migrants in coordination with U.S. immigration authorities. Speaking on Monday, Maduro described the incident as an act of “kidnapping,” claiming that the migrants have been held for 100 days in a maximum-security prison without trial or access to legal defense. (more…)
By Telma Luzzani on June30, 2025
U.S. Southern Command personnel visit Ushuaia in Argentina, April 30, 2025. Photo: Southcom
Although it seems like years, it is only five months since President Donald Trump took office for the second time in the White House. His goal – effectively condensed in the slogan MAGA (Make America Great Again), that is, to do whatever needs to be done to regain the lost primacy – contemplates an unconventional socio-economic-political revolution whose scope involves us. For many reasons, Argentina and, above all, our South, is in the Trumpist “restoration” plan. (more…)
By Granma Editorial on July 1, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
The Trump Administration’s “new” memorandum violates the rights of an entire nation and ratchets down every loop hole of Cuba’s right to interact with the nations of the world. They keep throwing these restrictions on the wall to see what sticks in frustration as dignified Cuba stands tall. (more…)
By John Perry and Dan Kovalik on June 30, 2025
Sócrates’ sister (in front), son and daughter, at his grave on June 28.
Nicaraguans will fill the streets later this month to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. On July 19, 1979, the Somoza dictatorship finally fell, ending 18 years of guerilla fighting and urban insurrections. The regime had been supported for 43 years by successive US administrations (the history is told in Nicaragua: A History of Us Intervention & Resistance). (more…)
By David Brooks on June 30, 2025
Source: Northwestern Now
In the United States, it is estimated that one-third of all newspapers that existed in 2005 have disappeared. Of the approximately 6,000 newspapers that still survive in this country, more than two perish each week, and a majority have had to stop publishing daily to continue only as weeklies. (more…)
By Odry Farnetano on June 26, 2025
President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez. Photo: Wilmer Errades
The president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, invited the people to support President Maduro’s proposal calling on world leaders to meet for peace. “We will seek these meetings, so that the bullets do not speak, and from these meetings, we will say Long Live Free Palestine and Long Live the Islamic Republic of Iran alongside our Venezuela,” he said during his speech at the meeting.Arch for Peace held this Wednesday in Caracas. (more…)