By Luciano Vasapollo on October 24, 2026 from Rome
In the face of the energy blockade that plagues the daily lives of Cubans, defending culture means defending the sovereignty, memory, and dignity of a people. Abel Prieto denounces the attempt to suffocate the island; Díaz-Canel underscores the need for resistance and international solidarity. Popular culture thus becomes a political and human response to the United States’ strategy of isolation. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on October 16, 2026 from Havana
image: Adano
The just demands of French students, which have been met with widespread repression by government authorities, reveal alarming statistics. (more…)
By Rose Miriam Elizalde on October 8, 2026
The Cuban troubadour in concert at the Movistar Arena in Madrid. Photo by Kaloian Santos Cabrera
Life pours down a deluge of worries and sorrows. We are now in the midst of such a downpour, soaked to the bone by the miseries of mankind. Because of Donald Trump’s dangerous audacity, which does nothing but conjure up the old ghosts of war and hatred; because of the political mafias—both visible and hidden—within the State Department; because of the horror of sanctions that leave millions in Cuba without electricity, food, or medicine. (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…)
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…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on September 3, 2026
image: Adan
On September 12 and 13, the 18th BRICS Summit will take place in New Delhi, India, with member countries, associate members, and special guests, under the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, and Sustainability.” (more…)
September 3, 2026 from Santiago Chile
Students protest the right wing Madrid Forum.
Today thousands of high school and college students marched through downtown Santiago, Chile, in a large-scale protest against the economic and repressive agenda of President José Antonio Kast. (more…)
By Luciano Vasapollo on September 1, 2026
There are moments in history when the words “sovereignty,” “independence,” and “dignity” cease to be abstract concepts and become a concrete choice. What is happening today in the Caribbean and Latin America presents us with two profoundly different pictures: on the one hand, Cuba, subjected to unprecedented economic, political, and media pressure and yet determined not to give in; on the other, a Venezuela that, following the dramatic political shift of recent months, risks seeing its strategic resources and capacity for self-determination progressively eroded. (more…)