April 10, 2025
The Chaski Audiovisual Laboratory (L.A.Chaski), in collaboration with Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World and with the support of the Al-Mayadeen Pan-Arab News Network in Spanish, is making the documentary “La Raíz del Olivo” (2024) by director Sergio Eguino Viera available for information, education and solidarity work with Palestine at an international level. (more…)
Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 10, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
An African country with coastlines on the eastern Atlantic decided to donate 3,000 tons of horse mackerel to Cuba, the delicious oily fish that swims in shoals from the Canary Islands and Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea and Baía dos Tigres, in Angola. As 2024 began, and since the island has no merchant ships, the nation that made the donation asked a local company to take charge of processing and transporting the cargo. (more…)
By John Perry on April 7, 2025
These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.
Sanctions are a form of hybrid warfare that harms or even kills the target populations at little cost to the country imposing them. In Latin America alone, US sanctions (correctly known as “unilateral coercive measures”) have killed at least 100,000 Venezuelans. (more…)
April 5, 2025 from Quito
Mercenary Erik Prince
Various voices have spoken out against the presence in Ecuador of Erik Prince, founder of the US private security firm Blackwater, who in a video urged people to vote for the current president, Daniel Noboa. (more…)
By Enrique Milanés León on April 7, 2025
Raul, Vilma and Fidel, photo: Granma archives
She was born on April 7, 1930 and her rebellious spirit, cultivated at home and influenced by the progressive ideas of exiled teachers who had arrived in Cuba after the Spanish Civil War, was further awakened by Fulgencio Batista’s coup on March 10, 1952, when she was not yet 22. Vilma Espín thought it was the last straw that the cheaters did not even respect the recipe of the so-called representative democracy. (more…)
By John Perry on April 6, 2025
Trump’s “Liberation Day”
Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced on President Trump’s “Liberation Day.” (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 6, 2024
On April 2, the Trump administration announced the imposition of tariffs against the majority of nations worldwide, with a special emphasis on Latin American nations, marking a turning point in global trade and the biggest change in the last one hundred years. (more…)
April 6, 2025
Children’s Day in Palestine, which was commemorated this Saturday, was marked by sadness, as the death of 19,000 children aged 0 to 7 years old in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in the occupied territories on October 7, 2023, was confirmed. (more…)