By David Brooks and Jim Cason on February 18, 2025
Alan Gross, USAID worker who tried to bring SIM cards into Cuba to activate satellite communication system, photo: AP
President Donald Trump’s plans to close the international aid agency USAID have put the organization, founded in 1961 as part of the US Cold War strategy to confront the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc, under the microscope. Among its first missions was supporting counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. (more…)
By Brian Berletic on February 17, 2025
Marco Rubio photo: Michael Badon.
While a recent interview with the newly confirmed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio began with promising slogans, it quickly unraveled into threats of overt aggression, including outright calls to seize the Panama Canal and annex Greenland from Denmark under an implicit threat of military force. (more…)
February 15, 2025, Havana
La Colmenita, photos: Bill Hackwell
Message of congratulations from the Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, to Tin Cremata director of Cuba’s national children’s theatre company; La Colmenita (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on February 16, 2025
Hugo Chávez, Néstor Kirchner and Lula da Silva, on January 19, 2006 in Brasilia.
An interview with Breno Altman, who is a Brazilian journalist, political analyst, and founder of “Opera Mundi,” a media platform focused on international affairs from a left perspective. In this conversation, he analyzes the global and regional implications of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the diversity and potential within BRICS, and the shifting landscape of Latin American politics. Altman also reflects on the challenges and possibilities for rekindling the spirit of continental integration that once flourished in the region under Hugo Chávez’s leadership. (more…)
By Claudio Altamirano on February 15, 2025 from Buenos Aires.
police shut down progressive concert in Buenos Aires.
The cancellation of Milo J’s show at the former ESMA is not an isolated event: it is further proof that the government of Javier Milei is afraid of art. And it is logical, because art makes people uncomfortable, art denounces while opening ones mind, art is memory. And memory is everything that this libertarian administration wants to erase. (more…)
By Frei Betto on February 14, 2025
photo: EFE
He who sows a lemon tree expects to harvest lemons. But in our society, driven by the analytical perspective and not by dialectics, facts are often examined for their effects and not for their causes. (more…)
By Guille Vilar on February 12, 2025
Eduardo Sosa, photo: Bill Hackwell
Beloved performer and artist of the distinctly Trova style of Cuban music, Eduardo Sosa, has died at the age of 52, in Guantanamo from complications from a hemorrhagic stroke. (more…)
By Claudia Fonseca Sosa on February 12, 2025
Wearing gray uniforms, with their hands handcuffed and escorted by security agents. This is how the first undocumented immigrants deported by Donald Trump’s government arrived at the Guantanamo Naval Base last Tuesday. (more…)