Edited by Ed Newman on July 10, 2025 from Havana
foto: Prensa Latina
The deputy head of the specialized agency of the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT), Colonel Víctor Álvarez, affirms that the number of individuals and organizations perpetrating terrorist acts against the country has increased. (more…)
July 8, 2025
María Corina Machado pushes for greater attention from the White House in favor of her agenda. foto: Bloomberg
For Venezuela in particular, and for Latin America and the Caribbean in general, one of the political events with the greatest impact so far this year has been, even more than Donald Trump’s presidency, the appointment of Marco Rubio as US Secretary of State. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on July 8, 2025
Colombian President Gusatavo Petro. foto: flickr
Both governments decided to summon their chargés d’affaires for consultation as a sign of bilateral disagreement over a possible coup d’état. (more…)
July 5, 2025
Rolando Lumumba
“I traveled thousands of kilometers from Patrice Lumumba’s birthplace to commemorate his centenary. I knew I had to be here because the struggle is the same: to fight fascism and seek the well-being of our people. That’s why I came.” (more…)
By Greg Grandin on July 4, 2025
No president in the history of the Republic has used the word “America” as effectively as Donald Trump — not as a symbol to invoke unity but as kerosene to keep the home fires of our culture wars burning.
America, America: Make it great. It already is great. Keep it great. America must. America will. America First. “America,” said Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff and the driver of much of his nativist domestic policy, “is for Americans and Americans only.” (more…)
July 4, 2025 from Havana
foto, Yaimi Ravelo
With the immorality, aggressiveness, and intimidating threats to the entire world that characterize the US government, the Trump regime announced on June 30 the implementation of a Presidential Memorandum prohibiting the American people from visiting Cuba. The travel ban to the island prohibits, under audit, all types of scientific, academic, cultural, and commercial contact. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 3, 2025.
Cuba is once again presented as a “strategic threat,” not because of what it does, but because of who it associates with. photo: X @NPR
A déjà vu. That is what we are experiencing. More than 20 years after the United States invaded Iraq under false pretenses, we are witnessing the same warmongering operetta in South Florida, where maneuvers are once again underway to push Washington toward a new chapter of military aggression against Cuba. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on July 4, 2025
This image precisely reflects the Argentine president’s discomfort and displeasure at having to interact—and be photographed!—with his Latin American counterparts. (more…)