By Alejandra Garcia on May 27, 2025
Daniel Noboa, rich kid turned president
The official results of the second round of elections held in Ecuador on April 13 do not reflect the electoral reality. This race, where incumbent president Daniel Noboa obtained the victory, “was a mega fraud against the candidate Luisa Gonzalez, of the Citizen Revolution movement, and we will file a lawsuit for alleged embezzlement,” the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, stated to the media recently. (more…)
By Marina Menéndez Quintero on May 26, 2025 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
On Tuesday, Venezuela began a new stage in the Bolivarian process, consolidated by Sunday’s resounding electoral victory.
The vote in the recent Venezuelan legislative and regional elections is another refutation of the fraud thesis put forward since the July 2024 presidential elections by the violent right wing, which, as on other occasions, opted not to participate in the contest and called for abstention. This places that sector as a self-proclaimed political pariah, without credibility, as it continues to operate “outside” Venezuela’s institutional framework. (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on May 26, 2025 from Caracas
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro led a celebratory rally outside Miraflores Palace on Sunday night and hailed a “victory of peace and stability.”
Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) and political allies emerged as overwhelming victors in Sunday’s regional and parliamentary elections.
According to the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE), the Great Patriotic Pole received around 4.55 million votes, 82.7 percent of the total cast, in the election for the unicameral National Assembly. It was followed by the Democratic Alliance and UNT-Única, two opposition coalitions, with 6.25 and 5.18 percent, respectively. (more…)
May 27, 2025
Kilmar Ábrego García was deported from the United States to El Salvador despite having legal status that protected him. He is described as one of more than 200 migrants expelled from the US and sent to high-security prisons in El Salvador without access to family or lawyers. (more…)
May 27, 2025
the destruction in Northern Gaza on May 27. Photo: Reuters.
Israeli attacks left some 80 dead and more than 160 wounded in the last 24 hours in various areas of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health authorities reported today. (more…)
By Ximena Hasbach on May 22, 2025
CECOT, El Salvador’s torture prison for rent
Donald Trump’s war on immigrants has been a cornerstone of his second term. The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has been a key ally in a deportation campaign that has reached new levels of brutality — the Trump administration is paying Bukele’s government to disappear deported migrants inside the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), Latin America’s largest prison notorious for human rights abuses and a complete lack of transparency. (more…)
By Daniel Seara on May 25, 2025
Dr. Alaa Al Najjar, Palestinian mother of nine children, massacred in a bombing by the Zionist army.
We live in a society where being a caring person is not valued. It is suspicious. It is “soft.” And the algorithm, like the market, penalizes tenderness and rewards backstabbing. Why care if you can stand out? Why empathize if you can trample? That is the logic that has turned scoundrelism—that mixture of cynicism, selfishness, and smiling cruelty—into an aspirational identity. The scum is the new hero of late stage capitalism. (more…)
By Johana Tablada on May 24, 2025
Mike Hammer in Miami
Below is an almost exhaustive analysis of the main lies, half-truths, and inconsistencies in the press conference given by Mike Hammer, head of mission at the US Embassy in Cuba, on May 22, 2025, in Miami (with an air of intervention), with an emphasis on the following elements: (more…)