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Pinar del Río Cuba: “May Every Dawn Find Us Ready to Fight”

July 26, 2026 from Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel. Foto: José M. Correa

With a message sent by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee and President of the Republic, began his speech at the National Central Ceremony for July 26, (more…)

Argentina: “The Power of a Tiny Piece of Bone”

July 25, 2026.

Family members and survivors remembered Nélida Noemí Moreno, José Luis Goyochea, Rosa Cristina Godoy, and Carlos Cruspeire during an emotional Mass. “Today we are a little freer,” they said. (more…)

Cuba Withstands an Unconventional War

By Felipe de J. Pérez on July 24, 2026

The Blockade: the longest genocide in history.

“We don’t like being threatened… We don’t like being intimidated. We don’t like it… Besides, our people have long since lost any sense of what fear is.”—Fidel Castro Ruz, December 20, 1980 (http://www.fidelcastro.cu/es/discursos/discurso-pronunciado-en-el-acto-clausura-del-segundo-congreso-del-partido-comunista-de) (more…)

Cuba: Strong Rejection of the State Department’s New Smear Campaign

July 22, 2026

Cuba rejects, in the strongest terms, the report published on July 20 by the U.S. State Department, referring to Cuba’s alleged subversive influence against that country. This is nothing more than a mediocre propaganda pamphlet. It seeks to reinforce the false narrative that Cuba poses a threat to the United States—a pretext that the U.S. government uses to justify collective punishment and genocide against the Cuban people. By fabricating accusatory narratives, it aims to build consensus for a potential military aggression. (more…)

Venezuela: Getting Rid of Illusions

By Elías Jaua Milano  –  July 23, 2026

Rescuers search for earthquake  victims within the rubble of a La Guaira. Photo: Jesús Vargas

“Innocence does not kill the people, but it does not save them either; their conscience will save them, and I bet my soul on that.” — Alí Primera (more…)

EZLN Vessel Carrying Humanitarian Aid Sets Sail for Cuba

By Elio Henriquez on July 20, 2026 from San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

Capitan Marcos of the EZLN. foto: Bill Hackwell

A small boat named Lacandona traveled to Cuba as part of the crew of the sailboat Astral, which arrived on the island on Sunday carrying humanitarian aid from European solidarity groups, reported Captain Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). (more…)

Rubio’s Enemies List Revives the McCarthy Witch-Hunt

By Gary Wilson on July 22, 2026

Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his map of alleged Communist Party organization, Army-McCarthy hearings, June 9, 1954. Seventy-two years on, the State Department calls the purges of his era a model worth repeating.

The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed The People’s Forum on July 21, ordering the New York organizing center to turn over its internal communications, membership records and finances by Aug. 7. Two other anti-imperialist groups, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, were served the same day.
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Coven in Washington: The Conclave of the “Best”

By Raúl Antonio Capote on July 22, 2026 from Havana

Neither Rubio nor Miller mentioned the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, the most serious attack on American democracy since the Civil War. foto: CBS

There are moments in history when international politics sheds all pretense and reveals its most disturbing essence; the Ministerial Meeting on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, convened by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on July 16 in Washington, is one of them. (more…)

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