September 12, 2026 from Havana
Oncology doctors in the Fajardo Hospital with Amado Riol, You Have to Love Cuba and Gerardo Hernandez, head of the CDR’s. foto: Bill Hackwell
The Trump Administration tries its hardest to portray the Cuban people as being broken and defeated as they face a full blown blockade that has gone on for over 65 years. Marco Rubio rants and raves every Thursday as he tightens it down in new ways of deprivation. Meanwhile the Cuban people, as they endure these hardships, are anything but defeated. Here is just one story of thousands where Cubans are improvising and connecting on the community level. Most of these stories go untold. They take place without media attention or credit but they are a fundamental way of operating with a collective consciousness to overcome this economic war against them. Here is a glimpse of the day to day struggle for food and medical care from the You Have to Love Cuba project. – Resumen (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 11, 2026
Jiang Zhaohe (China), detail from Liumin Tu (Refugees), 1943.
Capitalism depends on precarious migrant labor to discipline workers, deepen division, and extract wealth. While weaponizing anti-immigrant rhetoric to obscure the neoliberal destruction of public services and social welfare. (more…)
Statement on September 10, 2026 from Mexico City
Donations in support of our sisters and brothers in Cuba
Simón Bolívar taught that unity is necessary in our America, “not to fight or conquer anyone, not to wage war against anyone, but to defend it from common dangers, to secure respect for its sovereignty, to resolve its differences through conciliation, and to strive for its prosperity and progress.” (more…)
Rubio out of Peru!
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was met in Lima with a protest rally as he concluded his official tour of Latin America, which included previous stops this week in Colombia and Ecuador. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia Elizalde on September 10, 2026
Eye Hospital Jose Marti in Montevideo
The United States has reportedly communicated to the Uruguayan government that it must end the presence of the Cuban Medical Brigade, particularly the Cuban Ophthalmology Brigade, which has operated in the country since 2005. The U.S. pressure could include sanctions, including the possibility of placing Uruguay on an international blacklist—potentially affecting military cooperation and technical assistance between the two countries. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 10, 2026
Baghdad during sanctions, just before it was bombed again. fotos: Bill Hackwell
In 2003, before the United States unleashed the war in Iraq, a webcam maintained a fixed shot of Baghdad for hours. The page’s tagline was more important than the technology: “They are not numbers.” There were no military maps or war reports there, just a street, cars, pedestrians—people still coming and going in a city about to be bombed. The camera didn’t stop the invasion. However, it did something essential. It put a face on those who would soon be reduced to statistics. (more…)
By Raúl Capote on September 8, 2026
This is not a swing of the pendulum; it is not the classic back-and-forth between conservatives and progressives that has marked Latin American politics since the fall of the military dictatorships. (more…)
By Juan Miguel Lopez on September 4, 2026
all fotos: Juan Miguel Morales
Few singer-songwriters have penned verses as beautifully revolutionary or stanzas as subversively tender as Silvio Rodríguez. This Tuesday, the timeless Cuban troubadour, back in Barcelona a decade after his last concert in the Catalan capital, demonstrated at the Liceu why he is one of the icons of song. (more…)