By Raul Antonio Capote on October 16, 2026 from Havana
image: Osval
Just a few days before the United Nations General Assembly examines, once again this year, the report on the need to end the blockade against Cuba, the U.S. government has launched an intense campaign of pressure and blackmail against heads of state and government from various countries. (more…)
By Blake Burdge on October 17, 2026
CASA students visit Finca Marta, an organic farm outside Havana, during the spring 2026 semester. Photo: Desmond Silverman-Joseph.
The only U.S. study abroad program with a physical presence in Cuba is shutting down after 11 years.The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA), which brought hundreds of U.S. students to live and study in Cuba, has closed due to “the uncertainty in the U.S.-Cuban geopolitical landscape,” according to a notice on its website. The decision comes amid threats of U.S. military action, an escalation of sanctions and an oil blockade that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warns is putting Cuban lives at risk. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on October 16, 2026 from Havana
image: Adano
The just demands of French students, which have been met with widespread repression by government authorities, reveal alarming statistics. (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on October 13, 2026 from Caracas
“Salaries and pensions increase,” reads a banner held by healthcare workers during Tuesday’s demonstration.
Hundreds of Venezuelan workers took to the streets on Tuesday to demand that the acting Delcy Rodríguez government address a series of labor grievances. The mobilization in Caracas was called by healthcare trade unions to deliver a petition at Miraflores Palace. Education and higher education unions likewise endorsed the rally, which had a turnout estimated at 2,000 people. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on October 15, 2026.
Thomas Sankara
Every October 15, people commemorate the assassination of Thomas Sankara. Much has been written about this pan-Africanist revolutionary—the leader of the August Revolution in Upper Volta, renamed Burkina Faso (“The Land of Honest Men”) in 1984—often reducing his legacy to that of a pop icon of the Third World left: the “anti-imperialist president on a bicycle,” the austere military man who rejected privileges, the brilliant orator capable of challenging Western heads of state on the stages of the UN and the OAU. However, this hagiographic and purely label-driven narrative risks sterilizing the Marxist and strategic scope of his political praxis, transforming a radical revolutionary into a harmless T-shirt symbol. (more…)
October 15, 2026
Bogota October 14, 2026. fotos Fernando Vergara/AP
Thousands of protesters were repressed on Wednesday in the streets of Bogotá and Colombia’s major cities during the first national strike against the administration of President Abelardo de la Espriella. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on October 15, 2026 from Havana
Trump incited protestors attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021
There are two weeks left until the so-called midterm elections in the United States, in which—as happens every two years—all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third of the Senate, and several state governorships, attorney general positions, and other elected offices are up for election. (more…)
By William Serafino on October 13, 2026
Brazilians protest in front of the US Consulate General in São Paulo against the January 3 US invasion of Venezuela. Photo: Leandro Chemalle
The opinion polls failed again, which is becoming less and less surprising in a volatile and unpredictable world. Against the consensus forecast, on Sunday, October 4, in a Brazilian election marked by intense polarization, far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly defeated President Lula da Silva. (more…)