August 3, 2025
Venezuelan chef at work: the Zulia government has created kitchens dedicated to vulnerable people.
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has done it again: it is once again on the verge of eradicating hunger in Venezuela. This was recognized by the Un Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO in their annual report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 (SOFI 2025), addressing high food prices and inflation for food security and nutrition. (more…)
By Becca Renk on August 4, 2025
Nicaragua’s 2025 nutrition census. photos: Becca Renk
I remember the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds.
It was the summer of 1999, and I was weighing babies in Nueva Vida. I’d come to Nicaragua in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch to help in any way I could through the Jubilee House Community and its project in Nicaragua, the Center for Development in Central America (JHC-CDCA). (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 3, 2025
Nayib Bukele
El Salvador has crossed a critical line this week. Last Thursday, Congress approved a controversial constitutional reform that opens the door to indefinite presidential reelection with no term limits—a change that undermines the democratic principles established in the 1983 Constitution. (more…)
By Frei Betto on August 1, 2025
John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress”, depicting Manifest Destiny
War is like Janus: it has more than one face. In addition to military warfare, there are also diplomatic, economic, political, and cultural wars. Cultural warfare consists of imposing the dominant group’s version of reality on the dominated. This is what the entertainment industries of Disney and Hollywood have always done. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on July 30, 2025
Haitian women having their blood pressure taken at a mobile clinic staffed by a Cuban medical brigade in Salomon market in Port-au-Prince.
The Cuban revolution endures despite more than 60 years of U.S. attacks. One system exploits the people, while the other prioritizes their needs. Which nation deserves the label of “failed’? (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on July 31, 2025 from Havana
Trump in Butler Pa. on July 13, 2024, photo: Anna Moneymaker/ Getty Images
Two weeks ago marked the one-year anniversary of the alleged assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time, we took some notes on what seemed like a poorly told official story. More than twelve months later, that assessment has only been reinforced.
As part of the public reaction, both inside and outside the United States, to the events that took place on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, it was almost impossible not to recall the assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 23, 1963. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 31, 2025
Cover of the book “The tyranny of screen nations”. Akal Publishing
In The Tyranny of Screen Nations (Akal, 2025), Andalusian journalist Juan Carlos Blanco issues a warning that is as lucid as it is disturbing: we are no longer governed by states, but by digital platforms that have concentrated economic, cultural, and political power that eclipses that of many nations and transforms citizens into pieces of a social experiment on a planetary scale. (more…)
By Irene Zugasti on July 30, 2025
Joen Suárez, one of the 252 Venezuelans sent to the CECOT, next to his mother Karlyn Fuentes. Photo: Karlos Turrillas/Diario Red
When Joen Suárez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan, was forced into the Salvadoran maximum-security mega-prison known as CECOT (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism), everything was taken from him: his freedom, his time, his rights, his phone, and even his social media accounts, where he made music and shared moments of his life in New York. It is almost as if, by imprisoning him there, they wanted to make him disappear and erase him from the world. (more…)