By Vijay Prashad on March 12, 2026
illustration : Collectivo
In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 12, 2026
Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro delivering a speech to students at the University of Havana in 2015. Photo: Roberto Chile/Cubadebate
During the invasion of Cuba at Playa Girón, the attackers’ air force had around 30 aircraft, including B-26 bombers and C-46 and C-54 transport planes used to drop paratroopers and provide logistical support for the landing. On the Cuban side, in April 1961, the revolutionary air force could barely muster eight operational aircraft: a few Sea Fury fighters, a couple of T-33 jets, and a handful of B-26s recovered after the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship. The disparity was enormous, and yet in less than 72 hours, those eight aircraft proved decisive in breaking through enemy defenses and striking a blow to the invasion’s logistics. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on March 11, 2026
Hugo Chavez greeting Ayatollah
Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources. Yet it would be simplistic to think that would be only for narrow economic motives. (more…)
By Yldefonso Finol, Aporrea, on March 10, 2026.
I will not appeal to the lifeless papers of international law. Nicolás Maduro is a prisoner of war, as he himself declared in his first—and only—appearance before a Yankee court. He is the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, kidnapped along with his wife, Congresswoman Cilia Flores, during a premeditated and treacherous armed attack by the United States government, resulting in the deaths of a large number of people, the exact number of which has not yet been specified by official sources. (more…)
By La Jornada Editorial Board March 8, 2026
President Donald Trump hosted his counterparts from Argentina, Javier Milei; Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz; Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves; Dominican Republic, Luis Abidaner; Ecuador, Daniel Noboa; El Salvador, Nayib Bukele; Guyana, Irfaan Ali; Honduras, Nasry Asfura; Panama, José Raúl Mulino; Paraguay, Santiago Peña; and Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, along with the president-elect of Chile, José Antonio Kast, at his golf course in Doral, Miami. (more…)
By Razones editorial team on March 9, 2026
The US official asserts that “Cuba needs to change” and that Cubans require “economic freedom.” However, his narrative omits key facts about the social achievements of the Revolution and Washington’s responsibility for the current difficulties. (more…)
By Laura Esquivel and Carlos Pellicer López on March 10, 2026 from Mexico City
foto: Bill Hackwell
In these difficult times for Latin American sovereignty, the criminal siege of the island of Cuba pains us Mexicans especially. Those of us who subscribe to this call to support its people believe that it would be an outrage not to do so, at a time when the United States government is attempting to subdue it through hunger and deprivation, by intensifying the economic and military blockade it imposed on the island in the wake of the triumph of its revolution and in the face of its social, scientific, artistic, cultural, educational, sporting, and health successes, as well as its moving international solidarity. (more…)
March 8, 2026
foto: AFP
“An attack on the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, an attack on the aspirations for regional integration, and a manifestation of the willingness to subordinate oneself to the interests of the powerful neighbor to the north under the precepts of the Monroe Doctrine.” The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, denounced on his X account the Shield of the Americas summit, which is being held under the auspices of the US president. (more…)