By Yaimi Ravelo on September 28, 2026
fotos: Yaimi Ravelo
While the dignity and ethics of Cuban diplomacy at the United Nations went viral on social media, inside the country was pulsating from within its neighborhoods in keeping with the most genuine principles being defended on the international stage and upheld daily by the brave people of Cuba. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on September 29, 2026
Nicaraguans lined up to vote. foto: CNN
20 years ago, a few weeks before the decisive national elections in Nicaragua that year, 2006, the Swedish ambassador at the time gave an interview about her appreciation of the political situation in the country. During the conversation, the ambassador expressed her opinion that the intervention of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the country’s economy was necessary because Nicaraguans were unable to manage their own internal affairs well without foreign tutelage. Far from being exceptional, the banal racism of the ambassador’s comment reflects, in the most natural way, the entrenched ideology of Western superiority and the absolute absence of even minimal self-critical humility. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia Elizalde on September 28, 2026
Havana, foto: Bill Hackwell
Havana is facing an escalation of pressure in which threats of potential military action coexist, almost simultaneously, with messages from Washington about the possibility of reaching an agreement. Meanwhile, restrictions on fuel supplies and international trade are deepening the difficulties of ensuring essential services. (more…)
By William Serafino on September 26, 2026
Trump and Brazilian President Lula da Silva at the ASEAN Summit in Malaysia, October 2025. photo: Daniel Torok
In a few days, the future of Brazil will be decided in a context marked by open interference by the Trump administration. On October 4, in Latin America’s largest economy, Brazilians will vote in the first round of the presidential elections. They will elect governors, senators, and deputies at the federal, state, and district levels. (more…)
By Matt Willgress on September 25, 2026
US-financed Contra counter-revolutionaries in Southeast Nicaragua 1987
The US project to recolonize Central and Latin America means regime change in Nicaragua is now on Trump’s agenda. (more…)
September 26, 2026
Bruno at the UN
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced at the UN on Saturday that his country is facing a multidimensional aggression by the United States government — a permanent, abusive, and ruthless hostility that has lasted for nearly seven decades. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 24, 2026
illustration: Lacoste
The U.S. government may continue to lie from the UN podium, but free Cuba will continue to exist
Just because a lie is repeated a thousand times doesn’t make it true; President Trump called Cuba “an absolute failed state” from the UN podium. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 24, 2026
“A bully doesn’t just threaten the person right in front of them. They need others to be watching. They need an audience.” foto: AFP
Like so many people, I’ve been watching the international scene these days with a mixture of astonishment and alarm. Not because lies, violence, betrayal, or the abuse of power are anything new. What is disturbing is that they are once again being peddled as virtues; that threats are passed off as leadership, humiliation as firmness, and bluster as foreign policy. And here is Donald Trump now, speaking from the United Nations podium to remind the world who has the biggest stick. (more…)