By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 10, 2026
Baghdad during sanctions, just before it was bombed again. fotos: Bill Hackwell
In 2003, before the United States unleashed the war in Iraq, a webcam maintained a fixed shot of Baghdad for hours. The page’s tagline was more important than the technology: “They are not numbers.” There were no military maps or war reports there, just a street, cars, pedestrians—people still coming and going in a city about to be bombed. The camera didn’t stop the invasion. However, it did something essential. It put a face on those who would soon be reduced to statistics. (more…)
By Pablo Jofré Leal on September 7, 2026.
foto: Hispan
The Brazilian political landscape, in the run-up to the October 2026 presidential elections, is not merely a domestic struggle for the executive office in the Planalto Palace; it is the epicenter of a low-intensity geopolitical war. (more…)
September 7, 2026.
Mexico. Sheinbaum Responds to Trump’s Map: “Mexico Is Not a Colony of Any Country”
As part of the celebrations for the Month of the Fatherland, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo responded to the provocations of U.S. President Donald Trump with a strong and clear message reaffirming Mexico’s independence and sovereignty (more…)
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…)
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…)