By Geraldina Colotti on July 18, 2025.
Joy, culture, and popular participation are included in episode 85 of Con Maduro +, which took place at the closing of Filven 2025. Launched in April 2023, the program, which has replaced previous formats such as “En Contacto con Maduro,” is already a fixture for the Venezuelan people, who look forward to it every Monday, but also on other days of the week, depending on current events or surprise announcements by the president of the Republic. (more…)
By David Bacon on July 17, 202
Community and immigrant rights organizations rally in Oakland’s Latino Fruitvale district protesting immigration raids. One sign says “For my father, who was deported. Watch me from Heaven, Papa. This is Our War!” Photo: David Bacon
Jaime Alanis Garcia died of a broken neck in the Ventura County Medical Center on Saturday. He fell 30 feet from the roof of a Glass House Farms greenhouse, where he’d climbed in a desperate effort to get away from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and National Guard soldiers during an immigration raid on Thursday. (more…)
By Alexandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on July 17, 2025
Xiomoro Castro meeting with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
The second half of 2025 will be a critical period for democracy in Latin America, with presidential and legislative elections taking place in Bolivia, Honduras, and Chile, as well as midterm legislative elections in Argentina. This electoral cycle is expected to be marked by growing fragmentation, deepening political polarization, and the rise of Trump-style and Bukele-style rhetoric. Within this context, Honduras is emerging as one of the most closely watched countries in the region. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on July 17, 2025
Amilcar Cabral with Fidel.
In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.” This precept demands truth-telling, humility, and a relentless confrontation with reality. It stands in opposition to demagoguery, denial, and the temptation to obscure difficult truths for the sake of appearances. (more…)
By Chris Hedges on July 15, 2025
The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law.
When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning. Her office is tasked with monitoring and reporting on human rights violations that Israel commits against Palestinians. (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on July 12, 2025
Carnaval, Santiago de Cuba, photo: Bill Hackwell
It was not that long ago the shiny new internet and social media world dangled before us visions of instant communications with friends and the possibility of international collaboration for a better world. Increasingly it seems harder to sort through all the layers of ads and fake news. An example of how far the online world has become a political battle ground can be seen in the topic of travel to Cuba. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on July 11, 2025 from Havana
The Marco, Foto: Jose Luis Magana
As someone who fears public attention and backlash on his actions and takes refuge in the end of the week’s wind as people get out of Washington on Friday afternoons, (almost all of his anti-Cuban announcements have been made on that day of the week), Marco Rubio announced new coercive measures against Cuba on July 11. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris, Becca Renk, and John Perry on July 12, 2025
Women hold leadership positions on all levels of the Cuban government, including 56% of its National Assembly, photo: Bill Hackwell
Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the while overlooking significant feminist gains made in the region. (more…)