By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris on September 30, 2026
Acting President Delcy Rodriguez at the UN. September, 2026. Johanna Alarcón for WSJ.
Underneath the appearance of “normalcy” in the ongoing relationship between Venezuela and the US lies a manifest asymmetry of power. Even commentators from mainstream international news outlets frame their analyses by drawing attention to the proverbial US gun held to acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s head and, by implication, to the whole Chavista movement. That movement, founded by Hugo Chávez and carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, has broadly united behind her. (more…)
By John Perry on September 30, 2026
meeting in Estelí
Nicaragua’s electoral reforms seek to defend popular sovereignty as Washington intensifies its interference in Latin American elections.
Last week I was at a local neighborhood meeting in the Nicaraguan city of Masaya. More than a hundred people had come to hear a report from a doctor from the local health center and from a teacher at the technical college where the meeting was being held. We learnt about the attention being given to pregnant women (currently 11 pregnancies in the area), the mobile health clinic that would be arriving soon and new agricultural courses starting at the college, which opened only three years ago. (more…)
By Ignacio Ramonet on September 28, 2026
The first thing that struck one about Fidel Castro was neither his uniform, nor his stature, nor even his eloquence. It was his curiosity. After long hours of interviews for my book Fidel Castro: My Life (A Spoken Autobiography), when everyone was exhausted, the Comandante continued to ask questions, to request clarifications, and to return to historical or scientific details with intact energy. I have often thought that this was the secret of his political longevity: before being a man of power, Fidel was a restless intellectual, a visionary genius, a man of knowledge. (more…)
By Wennys Díaz Ballaga on September 27,2026
Looking ahead to next year, the main focus will be on renewable energy sources. foto: Ismael Batista Ramírez
Two hundred megawatts (MW) of electricity generated by photovoltaic solar farms will be allocated exclusively to water pumping in Havana, so that, in the first months of next year, this service in the capital will not depend on the National Electric System (SEN).
Meanwhile, distributed generation will make it possible to begin mitigating the impacts starting in November. To support the first 29 selected water supply sources and pumps, distributed-generation generators are being deployed. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on September 29, 2026
Nicaraguans lined up to vote. foto: CNN
20 years ago, a few weeks before the decisive national elections in Nicaragua that year, 2006, the Swedish ambassador at the time gave an interview about her appreciation of the political situation in the country. During the conversation, the ambassador expressed her opinion that the intervention of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the country’s economy was necessary because Nicaraguans were unable to manage their own internal affairs well without foreign tutelage. Far from being exceptional, the banal racism of the ambassador’s comment reflects, in the most natural way, the entrenched ideology of Western superiority and the absolute absence of even minimal self-critical humility. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia Elizalde on September 28, 2026
Havana, foto: Bill Hackwell
Havana is facing an escalation of pressure in which threats of potential military action coexist, almost simultaneously, with messages from Washington about the possibility of reaching an agreement. Meanwhile, restrictions on fuel supplies and international trade are deepening the difficulties of ensuring essential services. (more…)
By Gustavo Montenegro on September 27, 2026
Argentine President Javier Milei concluded his tour of the United States with a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which he reaffirmed his alignment with the genocidal state of Israel. (more…)
By William Serafino on September 26, 2026
Trump and Brazilian President Lula da Silva at the ASEAN Summit in Malaysia, October 2025. photo: Daniel Torok
In a few days, the future of Brazil will be decided in a context marked by open interference by the Trump administration. On October 4, in Latin America’s largest economy, Brazilians will vote in the first round of the presidential elections. They will elect governors, senators, and deputies at the federal, state, and district levels. (more…)