By Jill Clark-Gollub on June 11, 2025
Left Photo: Inmate in Nicaragua receives diploma (19 Digital). Right Photo: Inmates dehumanized in El Salvador (El Salvador Presidency handout/Anadolu/Getty Images)
Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances.
Opposition media from both Nicaragua and El Salvador, along with the Washington Post, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, all vilify Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by equating him with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. (more…)
By John Perry on June 10, 2025
AP (4/13/25) attributes Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s re-election to “voters weary of crime”—even though murders rose sharply under his first administration.
Elections in Latin America are often controversial. While many countries in the Global North regularly shuffle between parties offering alternating versions of neoliberalism, voting in Central and South America often offers starker contrasts: An anti-imperialist candidate in the mold of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez might be up against a neoliberal such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. It could hardly be otherwise, in a region with the world’s biggest gap between the richest and poorest. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 11, 2025
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner waves to supporters after the Supreme Court decision
In a decisive moment for Argentina’s political landscape, the Supreme Court has upheld former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s conviction in the Vialidad case, ratifying her six-year prison sentence. Given her age, she may request house arrest instead of serving time in prison. (more…)
Havana, June 5, 2025 (ACN)
Mayor Lee welcoming Cuban diplomats to Oakland,
The mayor of Oakland city in the US state of California, former democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee, reiterated her support for a change in US policy towards Cuba and her rejection of Washington’s over 60-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Caribbean Island nation. (more…)
By Alonso Urrutia and Nestor Jimenez on June 10, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum
Expressing her government’s unwavering commitment to defending the rights of Mexican nationals residing in the United States—whom she described as hard-working and honest people, regardless of their immigration status—President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized practices that criminalize the movement of people. We respectfully but firmly call on the US authorities to ensure that all immigration procedures are carried out in accordance with due process and within a framework of respect for human dignity and the rule of law. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 10, 2025
protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles, photo Mario Tama
Most headlines in the US media these last few days are devoted to the events, protests, or extraordinary occurrences, depending on how you describe them, taking place in the city of Los Angeles, California. These events are also impacting the information circulating in the rest of the world, where images of protesters being confronted by “law enforcement” are repeated. (more…)
By Isaac Saney, on June 8, 2025
The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) building in Havana. Photo: Reuters.
The recent student manifestations and expressions of discontent in Cuba over increased rates announced by ETECSA (Cuba’s telecommunications company) should be viewed in the wider context of the ongoing and escalating economic war and destabilization campaign by the United States against the island nation. These protestations are not random or isolated incidents but reflect genuine frustrations and grievances stemming from the challenges caused by the long-standing financial, commercial and trade warfare waged against Cuba, (more…)
June 6, 2025
Josué, 10, and Yasmely, 9, were reunited with their families, photo:@madeleintelesur
The 30th flight under the Plan Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland Plan) arrived this today at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira State, Venezuela, with 192 deported compatriots, including 10 minors, two of whom, after experiencing the anguish of separation. (more…)