By Cira Pasqual Marquina, on October 27, 2025
A Conversation with Ana Maldonado, a Chavista organizer who examines the US militarization of the Caribbean and the Bolivarian Revolution’s enduring resistance to imperial aggression. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on October 22, 2025
US Marines in Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist.
When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as US drones struck another small boat off Venezuela’s coast, few people in the United States realized that much of this militarization begins on the soil of a land denied its own sovereignty: Puerto Rico. (more…)
October 24, 2025 from Bogota Colombia.
President Gustavo Petro stated to hundreds of thousands rallying in Colombia yesterday, that Colombia is suffering a mafia-style extortion from a foreign government that is trying to force it to accept the designs of another king. (more…)
October 25, 2025
Mexico calls for transparency over the deaths of ten nationals in U.S. immigration custody or operations. Photo: @elespectador
Mexico has urged Washington to conduct transparent investigations after ten Mexican citizens died while in U.S. immigration custody or during ICE operations under President Donald Trump’s administration. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 26, 2025
Marco Rubio (right) and Félix Rodríguez, the assassin who claims responsibility for Che’s death in La Higuera.
Marco Rubio has unleashed an aggressive campaign of falsehoods and bullying to secure votes against Cuba in the United Nations General Assembly. With one week to go before the annual vote on the blockade of Cuba, the Secretary of State has launched a diplomatic offensive to try to shift the balance: not so much to add “no” votes as to transform affirmative votes into abstentions or absences. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 30, 2025
Yolanda Colom and Mario Payeras. Courtesy of: Ediciones del Pensativo
The voice that greets me is gentle, though every word seems shaped by years of struggle and memory. Yolanda Colom*, once a guerrilla leader in the Ejercito Guerrillero de los Pobres of Guatemala — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) — begins her story with a quiet laugh, after I asked her for brief recount on the Guatemala of her childhood: “I’m quite old now,” she says, “almost seventy. But I remember it perfectly.” (more…)
By Ed Newman on October 24, 2025
Cuba is a country that has been, more than blockaded, I would say tortured.
Silvio Rodríguez to Rolling Stone (more…)
October 21, 2025 from Caracas
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, left, with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, Miraflores Palace, Caracas, in October 2022. Photo: Rayner Pena
President Nicolás Maduro said Monday that he will always close ranks with Colombia, whose president, Gustavo Petro, was accused—without evidence—Sunday by his US counterpart, Donald Trump, of being a “leader of illegal drug trafficking.” (more…)