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US Mercenary Questioned for Campaigning in Ecuador

April 5, 2025 from Quito

Mercenary Erik Prince

Various voices have spoken out against the presence in Ecuador of Erik Prince, founder of the US private security firm Blackwater, who in a video urged people to vote for the current president, Daniel Noboa. (more…)

Vilma Espín: A Painting of a Woman with a Homeland

By Enrique Milanés León on April 7, 2025

Raul, Vilma and Fidel, photo: Granma archives

She was born on April 7, 1930 and her rebellious spirit, cultivated at home and influenced by the progressive ideas of exiled teachers who had arrived in Cuba after the Spanish Civil War, was further awakened by Fulgencio Batista’s coup on March 10, 1952, when she was not yet 22. Vilma Espín thought it was the last straw that the cheaters did not even respect the recipe of the so-called representative democracy. (more…)

Setting the Stage: A New Imperial Salvo Against Cuba

By Randy Alonso Falcón on April 8, 2025

The special envoy for Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone (right), analyzed US policies towards the region  with the president of the Miami Council on Global Affairs, Aaron Rosen. Photo: The Miami Herald

While Trump concentrates on handing out tariff increases, maneuvering with Ukraine and giving Israel bombs, and Elon Musk continues to apply scissors to the US government apparatus and external aid, the administration’s anti-Cuban team has launched an offensive to prepare the ground for the deployment of its punitive arsenal against Cuba. (more…)

Nicaragua’s Opposition Media Welcome Trump’s New Tariffs

By John Perry on April 6, 2025

Trump’s “Liberation Day”

Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced on President Trump’s “Liberation Day.” (more…)

Impact of Trump’s Tariffs on Latin America

By Alejandra Garcia on April 6, 2024

On April 2, the Trump administration announced the imposition of tariffs against the majority of nations worldwide, with a special emphasis on Latin American nations, marking a turning point in global trade and the biggest change in the last one hundred years. (more…)

Israeli Occupation has Killed 19,000 Palestinian Children since the Beginning of the Genocide in 2023

April 6, 2025

Children’s Day in Palestine, which was commemorated this Saturday, was marked by sadness, as the death of 19,000 children aged 0 to 7 years old in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in the occupied territories on October 7, 2023, was confirmed. (more…)

Forging Resistance to the War on Cuba at New York’s Malcom X Center and Beyond

By Diana Block on April 4, 2025

Photo from the U.S. Cuba Normalization Conference website

As the Trump/Rubio diabolical duo devise new attacks against Cuba, hundreds of activists gathered at New York City’s Malcolm X Center over the March 15-16 weekend to strategize how to strengthen solidarity organizing in the U.S. and Canada. (more…)

Exxon, Essequibo and Imperialism

By Eugene Puryear on April 3, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Guyanese President Irfaan Ali. Photo: Irfaan Ali/X

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela. Rubio’s statements have inflamed the tense border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana, creating fears of a broader conflict and continuing a long history of imperialist countries using differences over the border between the two countries to disrupt Latin American unity and economic cooperation. (more…)

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