By Frank Martinez Rivero on August 17, 2025
image: AI
Los Angeles, the mecca of film and the entertainment industry, is preparing to write a new chapter in its Olympic history by becoming, in 2028, the third city in the world—after London and Paris—to host the Summer Games for the third time. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on August 17, 2025
Washington is ramping up militarization at home and abroad. AP Photo: J. Scott Applewhite
President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the Pentagon to carry out military operations against what his administration calls “narco-terrorist” networks in Latin America. On paper, it’s a counter-narcotics policy. In practice, it serves as a green light for open-ended U.S. military action abroad, bypassing congressional approval, sidestepping international law, and stretching the definition of “national security” until it becomes a catch-all justification for the use of force. (more…)
August 17, 2025
Lula da Silva
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned the United States blockade against Cuba, which has now lasted more than six decades, and defended the Más Médicos program, implemented in Brazil in 2013 in cooperation with the island. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on August 16, 2025
graphic: Moro
The latest barbarity confirms that the greatest genocidal figures in history is the White House’s unconditional support for Israel in its extermination of the Palestinian people. (more…)
By Natalia Marques on April 15, 2025
Federal forces seen in Washington, DC on August 14
DC residents stand firm against federal takeover which many label as racially charged
Several days after US President Donald Trump announced his takeover of the local police force of Washington, DC, federal forces have begun patrolling the streets of the US capital. The Pentagon announced Thursday, August 14 that all 800 National Guard troops President Trump ordered into Washington’s streets this week to restore “law and order” have now been deployed. (more…)
By Prensa Latina on August 14, 2025 in Washington DC
Cuban medical brigades arriving in Mexico
While a small group of detractors in high positions in the US government increase their attacks on Cuba’s medical internationalism, others in the US Cuba solidarity movement are dismissing the tired old charges by putting a spotlight on the contribution these brigades continue to make on the needs of humanity. (more…)
By Chantal Liegeois and David Cavalcante on August 14, 2025
foto: Reuters
Between the null vote promoted by Evo Morales and the dispersion of the progressive camp, the right wing is poised to reopen the neoliberal path that the MAS had closed for twenty years. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez, on August 13, 225
What should we read into the sudden doubling of Washington’s outrageous bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s head? (more…)