By Lorenzo Santiago on May 28, 2025
Palestine to Colombia, victory to the resistance.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro appointed the first Colombian ambassador to Palestine on May 26. The representative of the country’s diplomacy will be Jorge Iván Ospina, former senator and former mayor of Cali and a close confidant of the president. The measure was taken a year after Bogotá broke off relations with Israel based on the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. (more…)
By Francisco Arias Fernández on May 31, 2025
US Embassy in Havana. Photo: Bill Hackwell
While in Washington and Miami the darkest and most unscrupulous actions are being plotted to try to squeeze the Cubans with a combination of coercive measures of maximum economic pressure, anti-family and anti-immigrant walls, zero remittance and travel policies, political and racist persecution, the US embassy in Havana, a historic instrument of subversion, is trying to become, with its provocations, the trigger for a bilateral crisis that will lead to the breakdown of “diplomatic relations” between the two countries. (more…)
May 31, 2025 from Havana
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
On Friday, May 30, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba summoned the US chargé d’affaires, Mike Hammer, to call his attention, once again, to the interventionist and unfriendly conduct he has assumed since his arrival in Cuba, which is unbecoming of a diplomat and disrespectful to the Cuban people. (more…)
By Gloria Silvia Orellana. Resumen Latinoamericano, May 24, 2025.
Ruth Eleonora Lopez being arrested
Ruth Eleonora López, a courageous and committed voice in the defense of human rights in El Salvador for years was arrested by the National Civil Police (PNC), who arrived at her home at around midnight on Sunday, May 18. (more…)
By Adam Kendal on May 28, 2025
May 1, 2025, Plaza of the Revolution, Havana photo: Bill Hackwell
For many Canadians, the US blockade on Cuba is thought to be a relic of the Cold War, either a product of the Soviet era or something eased under Obama’s “Cuban thaw.” This misconception allows American imperialism to go unchecked and obscures the enduring reality of one of the longest and most inhumane economic wars in modern history. In truth, the US blockade is still in full force, and under the Trump administration, it has become even more aggressive, tightening its stranglehold on the Cuban people. (more…)
By Charlie Hinton on May 28, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
The United States government is threatening mass deportations of Haitians enrolled in two programs – Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the Haitian Family Reunification Parole (HFRP) Program. Temporary Protected Status (TPS) allows foreign nationals from designated countries to live and work in the US temporarily due to unsafe conditions in their home countries – like ongoing armed conflict or an environmental disaster – that would prevent them from returning home safely. (more…)
May 25, 2025
Remittances are a lifeline for millions of Mexican families.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would impose a 3.5% remittance tax on funds sent abroad by individuals who are not U.S. citizens, disappointing some Mexican officials. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on May 28, 2025
New deputies and legislators who were proclaimed by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The pro-government alliance achieved a sweeping victory in Venezuela’s May 25 elections, while a fractured opposition suffered losses. Western media distorted the results – spinning low turnout claims, ignoring the role of illegal US sanctions, and offering selective sympathy to elite opposition figures. (more…)