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Trump’s Immigration Chaos: From Panic to Helplessness

By Francisco Arias Fernandez on July 21, 2025

image: Jorge

From panic and pain caused by being forcibly separated from their families and homes, thousands of migrants find themselves completely helpless in unfamiliar countries, without relatives or the slightest idea of where to go. (more…)

The Strength of Peace: Nicaragua Celebrates the 46th Anniversary of its Revolution

By Nan McCurdy on July 19, 2025 from Managua

photos: Nan McCurdy

This year was different from celebrations since 2021 when there were perhaps 5,000 people invited – this year there were about 50,000! It took place in the Plaza de la Fe where the July 19th celebrations were held for years and years with open attendance of hundreds of thousands and little organization. That changed in 2020 with Covid. This time invitations were made and organized by the municipalities all over the country and those invited road in on Chinese buses down to the plaza. You can see from the photo, the organization was phenomenal to accommodate the 50,000. (more…)

Maduro Gov’t Negotiates Return of 252 Venezuelans Detained by US in El Salvador

By Jose Luis Grandos Ceija on July 20, 2025

Relatives welcome some of the men freed from a high-security jail in El Salvador following negotiations between Caracas and Washington. photo: nawseas

Following a months-long campaign demanding their release, the Venezuelan men have finally arrived in Venezuela.

Mexico City, Mexico, July 18, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Two hundred fifty-two Venezuelan nationals deported by the United States and detained for months in El Salvador’s high-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) arrived back in their homeland after a successful negotiation by the Nicolás Maduro government. (more…)

Cuba and the US: Three Tenth Anniversaries

By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on July 20, 2025

Ambassador José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez and Josefina Vidal from the Cuban Foreign Ministry stand with US representatives as the Cuban flag is raised.  July 20, 2015 Photos: Bill Hackwell

These days mark the tenth anniversary of three distinct yet related events that are a significant part of the history of official bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States. July 1, 2015, was the day that the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two nations was announced. On January 3, 1961, Washington broke formal ties with Cuba as part of the first stage of the confrontation against the Cuban Revolution that led to the Bay of Pigs invasion. As a result of a negotiation process initiated under the Gerald Ford administration and concluded under James Carter, on September 1, 1977, the so-called interest sections were officially opened in both capitals. The US section in Havana was formally under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy in that capital, while the Cuban representation in Washington was initially assumed by the Embassy of the Czech Republic until that nation’s split, and then it also passed to Swiss responsibility. (more…)

Venezuela Demands ‘Decolonization’ of International Justice in Hague Group Anti-Genocide Conference

By Andreina Chavez Alava on July 17, 2025

the Hague Group in Bogota conference

The eight-nation Hague Group was formed in January by the Progressive International to mobilize progressive forces around the world and uphold international law. (Progressive International) (more…)

Trump vs. Cuba: More of the Same

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 17, 2025

For the cavemen, economic sanctions are not enough: they demand the full implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.

Despite the media hype, President Donald Trump’s recent measures against the Cuban government do not represent a radical break or the beginning of a new era in US policy toward the island. They are more of the same: secondary sanctions in the context of an economic strangulation strategy that has failed to achieve its objective for more than six decades. (more…)

Venezuela: With Maduro, a Direct Line to the People

By Geraldina Colotti on July 18, 2025.

Joy, culture, and popular participation are included in episode 85 of Con Maduro +, which took place at the closing of Filven 2025. Launched in April 2023, the program, which has replaced previous formats such as “En Contacto con Maduro,” is already a fixture for the Venezuelan people, who look forward to it every Monday, but also on other days of the week, depending on current events or surprise announcements by the president of the Republic. (more…)

Why Did this Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?

By David Bacon on July 17, 202

Community and immigrant rights organizations rally in Oakland’s Latino Fruitvale district protesting immigration raids. One sign says “For my father, who was deported. Watch me from Heaven, Papa. This is Our War!” Photo: David Bacon

Jaime Alanis Garcia died of a broken neck in the Ventura County Medical Center on Saturday.  He fell 30 feet from the roof of a Glass House Farms greenhouse, where he’d climbed in a desperate effort to get away from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and National Guard soldiers during an immigration raid on Thursday. (more…)

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