By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 9, 2025
Silvio, fotos: Bill Hackwell
“Silvio in concert or something similar is a good place to start… his songs make me think…” These verses from “Sábado corto,” Pablo Milanés’ ballad popularized in the 1980s, were the mantra of my generation: going out into Havana at night, meeting friends and Silvio Rodríguez in some neighborhood to savor the literary dignity of a part of Cuban popular music that has struggled to make poetry with song lyrics. (more…)
By Patricio Montesinos on October 6, 2025
The possible exclusion of Cuba, as well as Venezuela and Nicaragua, from the upcoming X Summit of the Americas demonstrates once again that these meetings, far from promoting dialogue, are intended to divide the Patria Grande (Great Homeland) for the benefit of US interests of domination. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on October 7, 2025
the state targeted media
The 2024 Shadow Report on Press Freedom in Latin America, prepared by the Voces del Sur network, reveals an alarming scenario for Peruvian journalism: the government has emerged as the main aggressor against the press in 2024. (more…)
Statement from Casa de las Américas on October 7, 2025
The United States is at war. First, against its own citizens, millions of whom—even many of the most lukewarm dissidents of the new order—have suddenly been classified as left-wing radicals, and even terrorists; against its migrants, trapped like animals, humiliated and deported without any judicial ruling; against its large cities, which are being militarized before the indignant eyes of their inhabitants; against the traditional “values” and institutions of liberal democracy, which are in the process of being dismantled. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 6, 2025
Venezuelans are rallying to defend their country against Trump’s war threats. foto: Bill Hackwell
Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combating “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism.
Congressional candidate José Luis Espert (left), accused of ties with narco-traffickers, with Argentinian President Javier Milei (right) at a political event. Photo: EFE.
The Argentinian parliamentary election campaign has been shaken by a scandal that directly impacts the structure of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), President Javier Milei’s party. The party’s principal candidate for the national Congress from the province of Buenos Aires, José Luis Espert, confessed that he received a $200,000 transfer from Federico “Fred” Machado, a businessman currently under house arrest awaiting extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges. The confession came after the revelations from judicial evidence against Espert. (more…)
Minrex Statement on October 5, 2025 from Havana
As the Revolutionary Government warned on September 18, the escalation of actions by the United States government to justify military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has continued and is increasing. (more…)
By Raul Antonio Capote on October 5, 2025 from Havana
The United States announced that it will allocate $1.8 billion to foreign aid projects with a political and strategic vision. According to a document sent to Congress, $400 million will go to Latin America, aimed at confronting the “regimes” of Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba. (more…)