By Rene Tamayo on November 11, 2025
Electricians and telecommunications workers in Villa Clara restore services in the east after Hurricane Melissa. Photo: Radio Rebelde.
On Monday, the expanded National Defense Council continued its systematic monitoring of the progress of work to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa in Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, and Holguín, where the restoration of electricity, water supply, telecommunications, and other basic services is advancing, but there is still much to be done before people can return to their daily lives. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on November 11, 2025
B-52 bombers off of the coast of Venezuela
While B-52 Stratoforte bombers fly provocatively back and forth off the coast of Venezuela, thousands of commercial flights cannot take off from hundreds of US airports because there is no money to pay air traffic controllers. (more…)
Calls on the Grassroots Organization of the Masses of the Peoples of Our America to Unify Our Struggles Against the Common Enemy
November 10, 2025
The social component of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met over the last two days on November 8-9, 2025 in Santa Marta, Colombia with representation from social movements, mass based organizations and civil society coming together with the absolute clarity and necessity to make our region a Zone of Peace to combat and confront the US/NATO led aggressionin the Caribbean and Pacific against Venezuela, Colombia and the region at large. (more…)
November 7, 2025
Lula speaking at COP30
The fund promoted by the Lula da Silva administration establishes a global financing architecture to protect the forests and jungles of more than 70 countries around the world. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 7, 2025
Abigail Spanberger in Richmond, Va., left, Zohran Mamdani in New York, centre, and Mikie Sherrill in East Brunswick. images: AP
A series of consultations or elections have just taken place in the United States that, under other circumstances and with other results, would not have been particularly significant, but in the era of Trump 2.0 polarization, they require analysis to understand the extent to which the current president can continue his national and international agenda without restriction and to begin to sketch out a scenario for the so-called “midterm elections” that will take place in November 2026. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on November 6, 2025
Children play on the beach during a security deployment in Anzoátegui, Venezuela, 19 September 2025. foto: Rosana Silva R
With rapid military escalation and a redeployed ‘War on Drugs’ narrative, the Trump administration appears to be laying the groundwork for an attack on the Venezuelan people.
Since early September, the United States has given every indication that it could be preparing for a military assault on Venezuela. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research partnered with ALBA Movimientos, the International Peoples’ Assembly, No Cold War, and the Simón Bolívar Institute to produce red alert no. 20, ‘The Empire’s Dogs Are Barking at Venezuela’, on the potential scenarios and implications of US intervention. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 6, 2025
Residents of El Cobre, Santiago de Cuba province, travel in a horse-drawn cart alongside fallen power lines after Hurricane Melissa came through. foto: AFP
An eloquent paradox. On October 29, two people died in New York, trapped in a basement by autumn rains; that same day, the worst hurricane in decades swept through eastern Cuba, without a single fatality.
The difference is not insignificant. It can be explained by the organizational capacity of a country trained to face the annual hurricane season, which is becoming increasingly fierce under the impact of climate change. In the Caribbean, a region excessively punished by natural phenomena, seven out of 10 people live near the coast and almost all of its major cities are less than 1.5 kilometers from the sea. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on November 4, 2025
Cuban soldiers in Angola
“The Cuban people hold a special place in the hearts of the people of Africa. The Cuban internationalists have made a contribution to African independence, freedom and justice unparalleled for its principled and selfless character.” Nelson Mandela, July 26, 1991 (more…)