By Roger Harris on September 12, 2025
Venezuelans are rallying against the military threats of the US. Photo: Bill Hackwell
A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up. They casually explained that the mafioso come weekly to collect their drug money. Later I found a playground, which served as a veritable narcotics flea market each night. If a blanquito from the suburbs and some third graders could uncover the illicit trade, I wondered why the officials – who plastered the city with “keep New York drug free” signs – couldn’t do the same. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 12, 2025
foto: José Manuel Correa
The use of a law that should have no place in contemporary international relations demonstrates the U S. administration’s obstinacy in maintaining the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba intact, ignoring the rejection of the majority of people of the international community and the clamor within the United States itself for this policy to end. (more…)
By Brasil de Fato on September 12, 2025 from São Paulo
Jair Bolsonaro, foto: Sérgio Lima/AFP
The decision by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and Armed Forces officers for attempted coup d’état was considered a historic day and a milestone in the defense of Brazilian democracy by experts interviewed by Brasil de Fato. Of those convicted, Walter Braga Netto, Mauro Cid, Augusto Heleno, and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira became the first military personnel convicted of attempting a coup d’état in the country. (more…)
By Dariel Pradas and Reed Lindsay on September 11, 2025, Havana Cuba
Cuba has long been an international powerhouse in sports like baseball and boxing. Basketball has been an afterthought. But on February 25, 2024, Cuba’s national basketball team did the unthinkable, beating the United States 81-67 in front of a roaring crowd at Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva Coliseum. (more…)
By Diana Block on September 11, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
On Labor Day weekend 2025, 4,600 people converged in Detroit for the second Peoples Conference for Palestine. Over three very full days, the multi-dimensional meaning and mandate of the banner, Gaza is the Compass, was explored by activists, scholars, artists, labor organizers and elected leaders from across North America and Palestine. Although the U.S. denied visas to almost all participants from Palestine, they were able to share their stories and analysis virtually. As PYM (Palestinian Youth Movement) organizer Taher Daleh declared unequivocally at the opening of the conference, “They have tried to intimidate us with smears, with false accusations, and with every single available threat at their disposal to stop this conference from happening. We will not stop.” (more…)
By Francisco Delgado Rodríguez on September 10, 2025
Milei’s popularity has dropped from 60% to 39% in 7 months.
The results of the parliamentary elections in the province of Buenos Aires could mark a turning point in Argentine politics, to the detriment of La Libertad Avanza, the party structure of Argentine President Javier Milei. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 11, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a press conference on his visit to Mexico, September 3, 2025. Photo: Cristina Rodríguez
Shakespeare has never been more relevant than now. Macbeth’s famous line – “Life is but a shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” – seems to refer to the situation Donald Trump has created in the Caribbean. (more…)
An Interview with Ignacio Ramonet by Geraldina Colotti on September 7, 2025
Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet, journalist, essayist, and international analyst, was the long-time editor of Le Monde diplomatique. In his book The Age of Conspiracy, he analyzed the mechanisms of “Trumpism” that we are now seeing spread to other parts of the world, from Latin America to Europe. We spoke with him about the political crisis in the European Union and the renewed tensions between the United States and Latin American socialist countries. (more…)