By Emir Sader on August 9, 2025
Jair Bolsonaro
Everything indicated, based on the progress of the proceedings against him, that Jair Bolsonaro would be imprisoned around October of this year. He himself already seemed resigned to going to prison. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 7, 2025
President Naboa and members of the milatary
This week, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared a new state of emergency in the provinces of Guayas, Manabí, Los Ríos, and El Oro, citing a situation of “grave internal unrest.” Violent incidents have skyrocketed, and the Noboa administration attributes them to organized armed groups operating within the framework of the internal armed conflict declared in January 2024. (more…)
By Elson Concepcion Perez on August 7, 2025
On eight occasions, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat visited the island at Fidel’s invitation. Photo: Liborio Noval
The Palestinian cause was one of Fidel’s causes. From the very beginning of the triumphant Revolution, he dedicated his efforts and solidarity to it, expressing this in Cuba, in international forums, and at the highest level at which our country raised its voice. (more…)
By Francisco Delgado Rodriquez on August 6, 2025
Marco Rubio and Donald Trump in the US, reacted to Álvaro Uribe Vélez’s trial, composition by Pulzo.
The latest misdeeds orchestrated by the State Department, led by Mr. Rubio, have focused on discrediting and even sanctioning countries in the region where their judicial systems decided to prosecute friends of the US government. (more…)
By Carlos Gonzalez Penalva on August 5, 2025
The recent appearance of Israel Rojas, leader of the duo Buena Fe, on the program La sobremesa on the digital platform La Joven Cuba has sparked an interesting debate on the fringes of the Cuban revolutionary intelligentsia. His presence, polite but firm, honest and serene, has been celebrated by many as a gesture of openness and courage. And it undoubtedly is. But this recognition should not lead us to overlook the terrain where the exchange takes place. Because in politics—and especially in the cultural battle—the setting matters as much as the words, and there is no innocent dialogue when the script is written by the adversary. (more…)
August 3, 2025
Venezuelan chef at work: the Zulia government has created kitchens dedicated to vulnerable people.
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has done it again: it is once again on the verge of eradicating hunger in Venezuela. This was recognized by the Un Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO in their annual report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 (SOFI 2025), addressing high food prices and inflation for food security and nutrition. (more…)
By Becca Renk on August 4, 2025
Nicaragua’s 2025 nutrition census. photos: Becca Renk
I remember the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds.
It was the summer of 1999, and I was weighing babies in Nueva Vida. I’d come to Nicaragua in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch to help in any way I could through the Jubilee House Community and its project in Nicaragua, the Center for Development in Central America (JHC-CDCA). (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 3, 2025
Nayib Bukele
El Salvador has crossed a critical line this week. Last Thursday, Congress approved a controversial constitutional reform that opens the door to indefinite presidential reelection with no term limits—a change that undermines the democratic principles established in the 1983 Constitution. (more…)