By Isaac Saney on July 30, 2025
Haitian women having their blood pressure taken at a mobile clinic staffed by a Cuban medical brigade in Salomon market in Port-au-Prince.
The Cuban revolution endures despite more than 60 years of U.S. attacks. One system exploits the people, while the other prioritizes their needs. Which nation deserves the label of “failed’? (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on July 31, 2025 from Havana
Trump in Butler Pa. on July 13, 2024, photo: Anna Moneymaker/ Getty Images
Two weeks ago marked the one-year anniversary of the alleged assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time, we took some notes on what seemed like a poorly told official story. More than twelve months later, that assessment has only been reinforced.
As part of the public reaction, both inside and outside the United States, to the events that took place on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, it was almost impossible not to recall the assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 23, 1963. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 31, 2025
Cover of the book “The tyranny of screen nations”. Akal Publishing
In The Tyranny of Screen Nations (Akal, 2025), Andalusian journalist Juan Carlos Blanco issues a warning that is as lucid as it is disturbing: we are no longer governed by states, but by digital platforms that have concentrated economic, cultural, and political power that eclipses that of many nations and transforms citizens into pieces of a social experiment on a planetary scale. (more…)
By Irene Zugasti on July 30, 2025
Joen Suárez, one of the 252 Venezuelans sent to the CECOT, next to his mother Karlyn Fuentes. Photo: Karlos Turrillas/Diario Red
When Joen Suárez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan, was forced into the Salvadoran maximum-security mega-prison known as CECOT (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism), everything was taken from him: his freedom, his time, his rights, his phone, and even his social media accounts, where he made music and shared moments of his life in New York. It is almost as if, by imprisoning him there, they wanted to make him disappear and erase him from the world. (more…)
Article and photos by Iliana García Giraldino on July 29, 2025 from Havana
The presentation of the book “Love is the Law: The Queer Rights Revolution in Cuba,” published in the United States by Struggle-La Lucha, the publishing house of the Struggle for Socialism Party, took place on Tuesday at the Casa de la Amistad in an event that became an expression of solidarity with Cuba, just causes around the world, and the LGBTQ+ community. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on July 28, 2025
“Today, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Cartel of the Suns as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization. The Cartel of the Suns is a criminal group based in Venezuela, led by Nicolás Maduro Moros and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials of the Maduro regime, which provides material support to foreign terrorist organizations that threaten the peace and security of the United States, in particular the Aragua Train and the Sinaloa Cartel.” (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on July 28, 2025 from Caracas
The Great Patriotic Pole will govern 23 of 24 state capitals, but the opposition swept all municipalities in Cojedes state. (Alba Ciudad)
The Socialist Party-led Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) emerged with a sweeping majority of municipal offices following the July 27 elections in Venezuela.
The country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) presented a first-results bulletin on Sunday night, reporting that the GPP had secured 280 mayors out of 304 races, with irreversible leads. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on July 28, 2025
A plane of deported Venezuelans arrives back in their homeland to open arms.
By escalating deportations, ending humanitarian protections, and cutting remittances, Trump’s immigration policy threatens to destabilize Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration. (more…)