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Meet the DC Think Tanks Impoverishing Masses of Latin Americans

By John Perry on April 7, 2025

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

Sanctions are a form of hybrid warfare that harms or even kills the target populations at little cost to the country imposing them. In Latin America alone, US sanctions (correctly known as “unilateral coercive measures”) have killed at least 100,000 Venezuelans. (more…)

US Mercenary Questioned for Campaigning in Ecuador

April 5, 2025 from Quito

Mercenary Erik Prince

Various voices have spoken out against the presence in Ecuador of Erik Prince, founder of the US private security firm Blackwater, who in a video urged people to vote for the current president, Daniel Noboa. (more…)

Vilma Espín: A Painting of a Woman with a Homeland

By Enrique Milanés León on April 7, 2025

Raul, Vilma and Fidel, photo: Granma archives

She was born on April 7, 1930 and her rebellious spirit, cultivated at home and influenced by the progressive ideas of exiled teachers who had arrived in Cuba after the Spanish Civil War, was further awakened by Fulgencio Batista’s coup on March 10, 1952, when she was not yet 22. Vilma Espín thought it was the last straw that the cheaters did not even respect the recipe of the so-called representative democracy. (more…)

Setting the Stage: A New Imperial Salvo Against Cuba

By Randy Alonso Falcón on April 8, 2025

The special envoy for Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone (right), analyzed US policies towards the region  with the president of the Miami Council on Global Affairs, Aaron Rosen. Photo: The Miami Herald

While Trump concentrates on handing out tariff increases, maneuvering with Ukraine and giving Israel bombs, and Elon Musk continues to apply scissors to the US government apparatus and external aid, the administration’s anti-Cuban team has launched an offensive to prepare the ground for the deployment of its punitive arsenal against Cuba. (more…)

Nicaragua’s Opposition Media Welcome Trump’s New Tariffs

By John Perry on April 6, 2025

Trump’s “Liberation Day”

Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced on President Trump’s “Liberation Day.” (more…)

Impact of Trump’s Tariffs on Latin America

By Alejandra Garcia on April 6, 2024

On April 2, the Trump administration announced the imposition of tariffs against the majority of nations worldwide, with a special emphasis on Latin American nations, marking a turning point in global trade and the biggest change in the last one hundred years. (more…)

Israeli Occupation has Killed 19,000 Palestinian Children since the Beginning of the Genocide in 2023

April 6, 2025

Children’s Day in Palestine, which was commemorated this Saturday, was marked by sadness, as the death of 19,000 children aged 0 to 7 years old in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in the occupied territories on October 7, 2023, was confirmed. (more…)

Shameless Confession of the US: “The True Purpose of the Blockade on Cuba is to Inflict Pain”

By Ismael Sánchez, on April 4, 2025 from Seville Spain

There are statements that, due to their harshness, deserve to be read twice. Once to understand them and once more to take in the magnitude of their meaning. What Mauricio Claver-Carone, a former Trump administration official on the National Security Council and now the US State Department’s special envoy for Latin America, recently said to the World Affairs Council of Miami is not just another diplomatic anecdote. (more…)

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