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…)
July 29, 2025
Former far-right Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe. Photo: Jose Vargas
On Monday, Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia, 44th judge of the Bogotá criminal court, found former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez guilty of witness bribery and procedural fraud.
The verdict concludes a 13-year judicial process fraught with political tensions, complex evidence, and heated debate over the independence of Colombia’s judiciary. (more…)
By Jim Cason and David Brooks on July 28, 2025
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
President Donald Trump’s announcement in late June of a series of measures against the Cuban government, followed in July by more visa sanctions against leaders in Havana and additional mechanisms to further restrict Americans from doing business with the island’s tourism sector, were presented as evidence of the new, more aggressive policy toward Cuba promised by the incoming administration. (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…)
By Jorge Elbaum on July 27, 2025
foto: AFP
In the last fifty years, after the Cold War, the United States led the international coalition known as the Gulf War between 1991 and 1992. It then led the invasion of Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021 and, almost simultaneously, the military occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2011. In its two and a half centuries of history—since its founding as a country in 1776—it has been at war for 228 years. (more…)