By John Perry and Dan Kovalik on June 30, 2025
Sócrates’ sister (in front), son and daughter, at his grave on June 28.
Nicaraguans will fill the streets later this month to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. On July 19, 1979, the Somoza dictatorship finally fell, ending 18 years of guerilla fighting and urban insurrections. The regime had been supported for 43 years by successive US administrations (the history is told in Nicaragua: A History of Us Intervention & Resistance). (more…)
By David Brooks on June 30, 2025
Source: Northwestern Now
In the United States, it is estimated that one-third of all newspapers that existed in 2005 have disappeared. Of the approximately 6,000 newspapers that still survive in this country, more than two perish each week, and a majority have had to stop publishing daily to continue only as weeklies. (more…)
By Odry Farnetano on June 26, 2025
President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez. Photo: Wilmer Errades
The president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, invited the people to support President Maduro’s proposal calling on world leaders to meet for peace. “We will seek these meetings, so that the bullets do not speak, and from these meetings, we will say Long Live Free Palestine and Long Live the Islamic Republic of Iran alongside our Venezuela,” he said during his speech at the meeting.Arch for Peace held this Wednesday in Caracas. (more…)
June 27, 2025
Venezuela’s Minister of Interior, Diosdado Cabello
Venezuela has uncovered a plot orchestrated by the country’s opposition, in coordination with the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, to attack a synagogue in Caracas and then blame Iran for the attack. (more…)
By Tatiana Coll on June 26, 2025
Against Cuba, a Fetid, Arbitrary, and Despotic Obsession
In the port of Havana, there is a ship with tons of rice, anchored and waiting to unload. It may not get to unload, because in order to do so, it must receive a signal from the commercial center that hired it, indicating that it has received $60,000 in payment. For the $60,000 to reach that trading company, which could be anywhere in the world because it is very difficult to find ships willing to transport goods to Cuba, Havana has to carry out almost clandestine operations through a series of camouflaged movements so as not to be detected by US surveillance systems monitoring Cuban transactions. If the $60,000 manages to achieve this feat and reaches the company’s account, the ship will unload the rice; if not, it will turn around and leave. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano, June 20, 2025.
protests continue across Panama
There is a country in Latin America where chainsaws—literally—are not wielded by “crazy” presidents who are fanatics of Trump and the International Monetary Fund, like Milei in Argentina, but by peasants and indigenous communities, who use them to cut down trees and block roads to prevent the arrival of the military. This is Panama, a region of Central America swept by a wave of strikes and protests that continue despite fierce repression. The unions began to mobilize on April 28, mainly against Law 462, which reforms the social security system (Caja de Seguro Social – CSS), seen as an attempt at privatization and an attack on pensions by the neoliberal government of José Raúl Mulino. (more…)
By Kelly Nelson and Roger D. Harris on June 26, 2025
Roberto Samcam
Traditionally regarded as safe for visitors, Costa Rica has recently become Central America’s second most dangerous country, with 400 homicides recorded so far this year. The violence is attributed to an epidemic of drug-related crime, as the country has become a major staging post for narcotics smuggled to Europe. Costa Rica just detained a former security minister and ex-judge for drug trafficking following a US extradition request. Even the US State Department warns of the danger of “armed robbery, homicide, and sexual assault” in Costa Rica. (more…)
By Mauricio Caminos on June 25, 2025
In Defense of Public Universities
The university sector is reigniting its conflict with the Argentine government this week over the lack of salary increases, budget cuts, and insufficient support for students. In a deteriorating situation, with some 10,000 teachers having left their posts since Javier Milei took office, university rectors and teaching and non-teaching unions are planning a series of actions to protest against the Casa Rosada’s austerity measures. There will be a 48-hour strike on Thursday and Friday, a march to the headquarters of the Ministry of Education, and the collection of signatures to push for a new budget law for higher education institutions, which the president vetoed last year. (more…)