By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva on July 7, 2025
Jeanette Jara, Chilean Communist Party leader. image , Eduardo Ramon Pais
Jeanette Jara (born 1974) prevailed in the Chilean presidential primary of the four major left political forces held on 29 June 2025. With 60% of the vote, Jara defeated Carolina Toha of the Democratic Socialist Party (28%), Gonzalo Winter of the Frente Amplio or Broad Front (9%), and Jaime Mulet of the FRVS, a merger of the Greens and the Progressives (2%). In November, Jara will therefore lead the Unidad para Chile (Unity for Chile) coalition into the presidential elections where she will face the candidate of the right, who will be either Evelyn Matthei (born 1953) of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) or José Antonio Kast (born 1966) of the Republican Party, or she will face both of them if they cannot agree to a single candidate. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on July 7, 2025
Gerardo Hernandez, photo: Bill Hackwell
A meeting in Rome with Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five Heroes who spent 16 years in US federal prisons for monitoring the activities of anti Cuban terrorists operating freely in Southern Florida. (more…)
July 5, 2025
Rolando Lumumba
“I traveled thousands of kilometers from Patrice Lumumba’s birthplace to commemorate his centenary. I knew I had to be here because the struggle is the same: to fight fascism and seek the well-being of our people. That’s why I came.” (more…)
By Greg Grandin on July 4, 2025
No president in the history of the Republic has used the word “America” as effectively as Donald Trump — not as a symbol to invoke unity but as kerosene to keep the home fires of our culture wars burning.
America, America: Make it great. It already is great. Keep it great. America must. America will. America First. “America,” said Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff and the driver of much of his nativist domestic policy, “is for Americans and Americans only.” (more…)
July 4, 2025 from Havana
foto, Yaimi Ravelo
With the immorality, aggressiveness, and intimidating threats to the entire world that characterize the US government, the Trump regime announced on June 30 the implementation of a Presidential Memorandum prohibiting the American people from visiting Cuba. The travel ban to the island prohibits, under audit, all types of scientific, academic, cultural, and commercial contact. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 3, 2025.
Cuba is once again presented as a “strategic threat,” not because of what it does, but because of who it associates with. photo: X @NPR
A déjà vu. That is what we are experiencing. More than 20 years after the United States invaded Iraq under false pretenses, we are witnessing the same warmongering operetta in South Florida, where maneuvers are once again underway to push Washington toward a new chapter of military aggression against Cuba. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on July 4, 2025
This image precisely reflects the Argentine president’s discomfort and displeasure at having to interact—and be photographed!—with his Latin American counterparts. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 3, 2025
mural on a major street in Havana: “The harassment and measures against Cuba are inhumane and they persist. This must stop. No More Blockade.” photo: Abel Padrón Padilla
President Trump’s new memorandum on Cuba, which is already old, seems less like the harsh and terrifying verbal outbursts of the eccentric White House tenant and more like the libidinous and nauseating language of the anti-Cuban political operators in Miami.
But regardless of who wrote the presidential libel, the document is a rehash of the 2017 Trump memorandum that paved the way for the 243 coercive measures imposed on Cuba during the first Trump administration.
More measures, more hatred, more aggression, more blockade, more attempts to intimidate US citizens who want to visit Cuba and foreigners who try to invest in the Caribbean nation are the backbone of the Memorandum released on June 30. (more…)