By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on April 10, 2025
Honduran President Xiomara Castro opens the 9th Celac Summit
In a historic day, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met for the 9th occasion in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to address crucial issues impacting the region. Among the global challenges discussed, the leaders highlighted the tariff war driven by U.S. President Donald Trump, which has put world economies at risk, threatening with a potential recession that will be most severely felt by the poorer countries of the world. (more…)
Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 10, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
An African country with coastlines on the eastern Atlantic decided to donate 3,000 tons of horse mackerel to Cuba, the delicious oily fish that swims in shoals from the Canary Islands and Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea and Baía dos Tigres, in Angola. As 2024 began, and since the island has no merchant ships, the nation that made the donation asked a local company to take charge of processing and transporting the cargo. (more…)
By John Perry on April 7, 2025
These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.
Sanctions are a form of hybrid warfare that harms or even kills the target populations at little cost to the country imposing them. In Latin America alone, US sanctions (correctly known as “unilateral coercive measures”) have killed at least 100,000 Venezuelans. (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)