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Cuba: The United Nations and the Human Rights Council Cannot Continue to Fail Palestine

By Rodolfo Benítez Verson on March 26, 2025 in Geneva

Mr. President:

Israel threatens to exterminate the Palestinian population, under the unmoved gaze of the international community.

Not only are their human rights and all United Nations resolutions being flagrantly violated, but the Palestinian people are facing an existential threat. (more…)

The Immigrant Holocaust Reaches Cubans

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 27, 2025

Trump decided that immigrants are the number one enemy of the United States, but it has surprised everyone that the hunt has also extended to South Florida, where the president’s best friends are. For the first time in more than 60 years, hundreds of Cuban immigrants, many of them women with no criminal record, are queuing up at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Broward, fearing that they will not be able to return home. (more…)

Venezuelan Families Demand Justice for Their Relatives Deported to El Salvador

By Pablo Meriguet on March 26, 2025

“Migration is not a crime, sanctioning a people is” reads a sign at a march on March 25, in Caracas. Photo via VP Venezuela

The Venezuelan government has initiated all possible steps (political and legal) to achieve the return of its citizens. A US judge claimed “Nazis got better treatment” than the Venezuelans accused of gang activity. (more…)

What Rodolfo Walsh Would Demand We Write in His Place

By Vijay Prashad on March 27, 2025

As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship in Argentina with his pen. (more…)

Trump Threatens 25% Tariff on Countries Buying Venezuelan Oil as US Continues Migrant Crackdown

By José Luis Granados Ceja on March 24, 2025

Trump keeps signing away threatening executive orders.

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States will impose a 25 percent tariff on all trade with countries purchasing oil or gas from Venezuela. Caracas responded to the measure, calling it “arbitrary, illegal and desperate” and accusing Washington of violating international trade agreements. (more…)

El Tren de Aragua: the Defunct Venezuelan Band turned International Narrative Weapon

March 25, 2025

Until the designation as a “transnational criminal organization” by the US in 2024, the course of the now-disbanded group was narrated by a network of US think tanks, media and funds that constructed a discourse against the Bolivarian Revolution. This construction currently serves to justify sanctions, carry out mass deportations and feed the false idea of a failed state in Venezuela. (more…)

The Argentine Rite of March 24: a Celebration of Remembrance

By Luis Bruschtein on March 25, 2025 from Buenos Aires

The faces of the disappeared will always be present despite the denialism of Milei photo: AFP

It is difficult to understand how this ritual of hope could have emerged from horror. The state terrorism that caused the disappearance of 30,000 Argentinians gave rise to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. And the hundreds of thousands who march every 24th of March continue on their path, contributing to this democracy the richest facet of their people: love of country, solidarity and the fight against injustice. (more…)

The Cuban Route to the American South and its Expression in Culture from History

By Dr. José Ramón Cabañas on on March 25, 2025

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Cultural Diplomacy, organized by the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales “Raúl Roa García”, ISRI, Havana, March 25-27, 2025. (more…)

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