By Clovaldo Hernandez on October 30, 2025
foto: Bill Hackwell
Besieged by a military force carrying out extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean and constant psyops, Venezuela is making sweeping preparations for the worst-case scenario, without renouncing normalcy and the cheerful spirit that defines its people. (more…)
By Salim Lamrani on November 1, 2025
protest in front of the White House for Cuba, June 2023. foto: Bill Hackwell
On October 29, 2025, for the 33rd consecutive year, during the United Nations General Assembly, 165 countries demanded the lifting of the United States’ unilateral economic sanctions that have been strangling the Cuban population since 1960. Unlike the previous year—when only Israel sided with Washington in opposing the resolution presented by Havana—this time five other nations yielded to the strong pressure exerted by the Trump administration: Argentina, Hungary, North Macedonia, Paraguay, and Ukraine. Twelve other countries chose to abstain. (more…)
By Becca Renk Foster on November 1, 2025
images from the El Porvenir worker-owned coffee cooperative
“We were already struggling with 18% tariffs this year, I don’t know how we could export our coffee under 100% tariffs,” René Gaitan tells me as we watch the clouds clear out over a breathtaking expanse of Nicaraguan landscape. The view from the El Porvenir worker-owned coffee cooperative stretches from Lake Managua up toward the Honduran border, dominated by the smoking crater of the Telica volcano. Gaitán is the vice president of the 51-family cooperative. (more…)
By Charles McKelvey on October 31, 2025
Hurricane Melissa over Cuban territory. Photo: INSMET (Cuban Institute of Meteorology)
There are some who say that the Cuban “regime” is on the verge of collapse. The problem is somebody forgot to tell the folks who work for the ministries of the Cuban national and provincial governments that they pertain to a state that is no longer functioning. Not being aware of this, in response to the crossing of the island by Hurricane Melissa, they proceeded with the same energy and commitment that has defined them for decades. (more…)
foto: Yanelkys Llera Céspedes
Hurricane Melissa has left a trail of devastation through the Antilles with over 30 deaths in Haiti and Jamaica to date. The Eastern part of Cuba was also slammed by Melissa; the strongest hurricane to hit in the last 150 years. As of now no lives were lost in Cuba and that is due to its national unity and preparedness that was able to evacuate over 700,000 people and their belongings out of harm’s way before the storm arrived. – editorial (more…)
By Atilio Boron on October 3, 2025
Atilio Boron, foto: Bill Hackwell
Argentina did it again.
At the UN, while 165 countries voted to lift the blockade against Cuba, our country chose to side with the wrong side of history. It voted against it. (more…)
October 30, 2025
Photo: @PITCNT1
Various trade unions in Uruguay called for a partial general strike on Wednesday with rallies in multiple cities, demanding more resources for secondary education, better working conditions, and the defense of collective bargaining. (more…)
By Leonardo Buitrago on October 28, 2025
Milei kissing up to Trump at the White House
US President Donald Trump took credit for the victory of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), the party of Argentine President Javier Milei, in last Sunday’s legislative elections, revealing Washington’s political interventionism in the South American nation, accompanied by an economic bailout whose full details are still unknown. (more…)