By Victor Ego Ducrot on April 15, 2025 from Buenos Aires
Argentine unions are calling for more demonstrations this week. photo: Bill Hackwell
The stagnation driven by Donald Trump’s tariff policies, intended to save the dollar from collapse—the US debt and trade imbalance is measured in trillions—is global in nature, but will fall hardest on countries euphemistically referred to as developing or emerging. (more…)
April 17, 2025
Trump the Panama Canel is not for sale
A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Panamanian Ministry of Public Security and the US Department of Defense has been filed with the Constitutional Court. (more…)
By Jorge Ernesto Angulo Leiva onApril 16, 2025
photos: Ricardo López Hevia
“A cry of rebellion and hope rang out loudly on April 16, 1961,” proclaimed Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and its first secretary in Havana, describing the proclamation of the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
April 16, 2025 from Havana
The Faustino Perez Hospital in the western Cuban province of Matanzas offers specialized consultation for persons interested in transgender transition, as a new service. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris on April 16, 2025
Detainees at the Cecot mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador
Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign that targets Latino migrants – particularly Venezuelans – as scapegoats in a broader geopolitical agenda. Bolstered through a controversial alliance with the Salvadoran president, Trump has overseen mass deportations, detentions in Guantánamo Bay and El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, and invoked 18th-century war powers to justify these actions. (more…)
April 14, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has opted not to declare a position on the presidential elections in Ecuador, where current President Daniel Noboa is leading the results with 55.88% of valid votes compared to 44.12% for the Citizen Revolution Party candidate, Luisa González, according to data from the National Electoral Council (CNE) with over 90% of the votes counted. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on April 15, 2024 from Buenos Aires
Few in the United States have realized the momentous change that has taken place on the world geopolitical chessboard. Photo: AFP
There is much talk, and will be for a long time, about the “tariff war” unleashed by Donald Trump. And there is a risk that the issue will be reduced to the commercial aspect, to the balance of imports and exports between the United States and its trading partners. But it would be a serious mistake to limit the discussion to that point. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on April 14, 2025
The electoral fraud in Ecuador was planned and structured long before the voting on April 13th between the candidate Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution movement and the far-right Daniel Noboa of National Democratic Action. (more…)