By Rene Tamayo Leon on October 28, 2025 from Havana
foto: Abel Padrón Padilla
Melissa 
“is a very powerful hurricane; it is classified as a Category Five. Due to its characteristics, it is considered one of the strongest, most severe hurricanes, or perhaps the strongest that has ever passed through the national territory,” said the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, addressing our compatriots on the eve of the country being hit by this dangerous cyclone. (more…)
photo: Cristian Hernandez
We condemn U.S. lawlessness in Our Americas and call for multinational intervention to guarantee a ‘Zone of Peace’
October 27, 2025 – U.S. lawless attacks throughout the Caribbean and Pacific, military buildup on various islands, strikes against Venezuela, antagonism against Colombia, and threats to escalate to land bombings are plunging the Americas to the brink of war. The Black Alliance for Peace condemns U.S. imperialist actions and calls on the so-called “international community” and regional/global multinational institutions – such as CELAC, CARICOM, and the UN Security Council – to intervene and end this aggression before it is too late. (more…)
By Cira Pasqual Marquina, on October 27, 2025
A Conversation with Ana Maldonado, a Chavista organizer who examines the US militarization of the Caribbean and the Bolivarian Revolution’s enduring resistance to imperial aggression. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on October 22, 2025
US Marines in Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist.
When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as US drones struck another small boat off Venezuela’s coast, few people in the United States realized that much of this militarization begins on the soil of a land denied its own sovereignty: Puerto Rico. (more…)
By Frei Betto on October 22, 2025
Gambling has never been easier. Before, to lose money, people had to make an effort: find a “jogo do bicho” betting spot or take a chance at an underground casino. Today, all they have to do is open a colorful app, choose whether the Palmeiras soccer team will win a corner kick in the 12th minute, and voilà! There goes the 100 reais they had set aside to buy a cooking gas cylinder. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 26, 2025
Marco Rubio (right) and Félix Rodríguez, the assassin who claims responsibility for Che’s death in La Higuera.
Marco Rubio has unleashed an aggressive campaign of falsehoods and bullying to secure votes against Cuba in the United Nations General Assembly. With one week to go before the annual vote on the blockade of Cuba, the Secretary of State has launched a diplomatic offensive to try to shift the balance: not so much to add “no” votes as to transform affirmative votes into abstentions or absences. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 30, 2025
Yolanda Colom and Mario Payeras. Courtesy of: Ediciones del Pensativo
The voice that greets me is gentle, though every word seems shaped by years of struggle and memory. Yolanda Colom*, once a guerrilla leader in the Ejercito Guerrillero de los Pobres of Guatemala — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) — begins her story with a quiet laugh, after I asked her for brief recount on the Guatemala of her childhood: “I’m quite old now,” she says, “almost seventy. But I remember it perfectly.” (more…)
By Ed Newman on October 24, 2025
Cuba is a country that has been, more than blockaded, I would say tortured.
Silvio Rodríguez to Rolling Stone (more…)