By Randy Alonso Falcon on September 6, 2025
Cerimedo “planned” the attack and “remotely directed the ambush” to kill his girlfriend.
Since his arrest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on August 18, after ordering the murder of his girlfriend, Fernando Cerimedo has become a fan spreading filth everywhere.
The newly minted electoral consultant for Latin America’s far right has gone from being a man who was flattered and sought after to a true pariah.
The revelations—sums of money, recordings, and bot farms—that have gradually come to light are unraveling a dark continental web of election rigging, manipulation of public opinion, political corruption, and the buying of favors, causing unease in Washington, Miami, Mexico City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Bogotá, Lima, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and La Paz.
The tentacles of this powerful techno-fascist network even reach as far as Madrid. (more…)
By Lea Aschkenas on September 5, 2026
foto: Bill Hackwell
Recently, while listening to an NPR interview with Cuban-American musician Arturo Sandoval, I was reminded of the late political scientist Michael Parenti’s classic text, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media. In his 1986 book, Parenti described a situation that is still relevant forty years later— when the US fears that another country’s non-capitalistic political model (and its attendant advances in social justice and quality of life) could cause US citizens to question their own system, it regularly imposes an embargo and sanctions against the country. (more…)
September 6, 2026 from Havana
fotos: Estudios Revolución
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro Ruz, and the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, participated in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the Personal Security Directorate.
The commemoration was attended by other leaders of the Cuban Party, State, and Government, along with founders of that security agency. (more…)
By Alma Plus Online, September 6, 2026
The U.S. government’s immigration crackdown has caused a surge in arrests of people with no criminal record and is affecting asylum seekers and families. Donald Trump’s immigration policy has led to an increase in arrests of people with no criminal record in the United States. (more…)
By Emilia Trabucco on September 5, 2026
Abel Prieto, foto: Bill Hackwell
Interview with the president of the Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto Jimenez
A writer, essayist, and one of the leading figures in Cuban cultural policy in recent decades, Abel Prieto Jiménez served for many years as president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), was Minister of Culture from 1997 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2018, and served as an advisor to the leadership of the Revolution. Since 2019, he has presided over Casa de las Américas. His intellectual and political career has been closely linked to Fidel Castro and the major debates surrounding culture, identity, hegemony, and decolonization. (more…)
Por Jill Clark-Gollub, el 4 de septiembre de 2026 en Washington, D.C.
Foto: Los ponentes (de izquierda a derecha) Félix Sharpe Caballero, Suzanne Adely y el reverendo Robert Turner prestan testimonio ante los miembros del Congreso. (captura de pantalla del vídeo)
El 2 de septiembre de 2026, las congresistas Delia Ramírez e Ilhan Omar organizaron una audiencia paralela en el Congreso sobre el tema «Romper el bloqueo: reevaluación de los fallos morales y jurídicos de la política entre EE. UU. y Cuba». Una audiencia paralela, convocada por el partido minoritario, cuenta con todas las formalidades de una audiencia oficial del Congreso. (more…)
By Jill Clark-Gollub on September 4, 2026 in Washington, DC
Photo: Panelists (l-r) Felix Sharpe Caballero, Suzanne Adely, and Rev. Robert Turner give testimony to Members of Congress. (video screenshot)
On September 2, 2026, Congresswomen Delia Ramírez and Ilhan Omar hosted a shadow hearing in Congress on “Breaking the Blockade: Reassessing the Moral and Legal Failures of U.S.-Cuba Policy.” A shadow hearing, called by the minority party, has all the formalities of an official hearing of Congress. (more…)
By Cubadebate Media Observatory on August 24, 2026 (Part 1)
The name Fernando Cerimedo has sent shockwaves through the regional political landscape, appearing time and again at the intersection of election campaigns, digital communication operations, and transnational political networks of the new Latin American right. (more…)