By David Bacon on August 15 2025
Dancers from Las Azucenas de Maria perform Jarabes from Oaxaca’s central valleys on the stage in the plaza. photos: David Bacon
Increasingly targeted in immigration raids, Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.
In many agricultural fields of the West Coast of the United States, you’re more likely to hear Mixtec or Triqui languages spoken than Spanish. Both are common among the Indigenous people of southern Mexico, some of whom now pick grapes for Napa and Sonoma County’s prestige wineries, or apples in century-old orchards. Without their labor, rural economies in California would collapse. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on August 18, 2025
One of Donald Trump’s most immediate priorities during his first six months as president of the United States has been to carry out a kind of ethnic cleansing within the country, or rather social alienation or marginalization, which began markedly with measures taken against immigrants (legal or otherwise) and has continued with other sectors. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on August 18, 2025
“If they touch Maduro, they touch all of us.”
The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article, a mirror is held up to Uncle Sam to see how well “America the beautiful” holds up to the same charges, while also exposing the role of sanctions, compliant NGOs, and military threats in Washington’s hybrid war on Venezuela. (more…)
By Frank Martinez Rivero on August 17, 2025
image: AI
Los Angeles, the mecca of film and the entertainment industry, is preparing to write a new chapter in its Olympic history by becoming, in 2028, the third city in the world—after London and Paris—to host the Summer Games for the third time. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on August 17, 2025
Washington is ramping up militarization at home and abroad. AP Photo: J. Scott Applewhite
President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the Pentagon to carry out military operations against what his administration calls “narco-terrorist” networks in Latin America. On paper, it’s a counter-narcotics policy. In practice, it serves as a green light for open-ended U.S. military action abroad, bypassing congressional approval, sidestepping international law, and stretching the definition of “national security” until it becomes a catch-all justification for the use of force. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on August 16, 2025
graphic: Moro
The latest barbarity confirms that the greatest genocidal figures in history is the White House’s unconditional support for Israel in its extermination of the Palestinian people. (more…)
By Natalia Marques on April 15, 2025
Federal forces seen in Washington, DC on August 14
DC residents stand firm against federal takeover which many label as racially charged
Several days after US President Donald Trump announced his takeover of the local police force of Washington, DC, federal forces have begun patrolling the streets of the US capital. The Pentagon announced Thursday, August 14 that all 800 National Guard troops President Trump ordered into Washington’s streets this week to restore “law and order” have now been deployed. (more…)
By Prensa Latina on August 14, 2025 in Washington DC
Cuban medical brigades arriving in Mexico
While a small group of detractors in high positions in the US government increase their attacks on Cuba’s medical internationalism, others in the US Cuba solidarity movement are dismissing the tired old charges by putting a spotlight on the contribution these brigades continue to make on the needs of humanity. (more…)