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US Seizing Panama and Greenland Aimed at China

By Brian Berletic on February 17, 2025

Marco Rubio photo: Michael Badon.

While a recent interview with the newly confirmed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio began with promising slogans, it quickly unraveled into threats of overt aggression, including outright calls to seize the Panama Canal and annex Greenland from Denmark under an implicit threat of military force. (more…)

La Colmenita: Turning 35… while Continuing to Dream Everyday

February 15, 2025, Havana

La Colmenita, photos: Bill Hackwell

Message of congratulations from the Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, to Tin Cremata director of Cuba’s national children’s theatre company; La Colmenita (more…)

What the New Trump Era Means for Venezuela and Latin America Unity

By Cira Pascual Marquina on February 16, 2025

Hugo Chávez, Néstor Kirchner and Lula da Silva, on January 19, 2006 in Brasilia.

An interview with Breno Altman,  who is a Brazilian journalist, political analyst, and founder of “Opera Mundi,” a media platform focused on international affairs from a left perspective. In this conversation, he analyzes the global and regional implications of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the diversity and potential within BRICS, and the shifting landscape of Latin American politics. Altman also reflects on the challenges and possibilities for rekindling the spirit of continental integration that once flourished in the region under Hugo Chávez’s leadership. (more…)

Argentina: Milei Censors Art and Memory

By Claudio Altamirano on February 15, 2025 from Buenos Aires.

police shut down progressive concert in Buenos Aires.

The cancellation of Milo J’s show at the former ESMA is not an isolated event: it is further proof that the government of Javier Milei is afraid of art. And it is logical, because art makes people uncomfortable, art denounces while opening ones mind, art is memory. And memory is everything that this libertarian administration wants to erase. (more…)

The Nature of Trump

By Frei Betto on February 14, 2025

photo: EFE

He who sows a lemon tree expects to harvest lemons. But in our society, driven by the analytical perspective and not by dialectics, facts are often examined for their effects and not for their causes. (more…)

Cuba: An Open letter to Eduardo Sosa

By Guille Vilar on February 12, 2025

Eduardo Sosa, photo: Bill Hackwell

Beloved performer and artist of the distinctly Trova style of Cuban music, Eduardo Sosa, has died at the age of 52, in Guantanamo from complications from a hemorrhagic stroke. (more…)

Guantanamo Naval Base and Trump’s Xenophobia

By Claudia Fonseca Sosa on February 12, 2025

Wearing gray uniforms, with their hands handcuffed and escorted by security agents. This is how the first undocumented immigrants deported by Donald Trump’s government arrived at the Guantanamo Naval Base last Tuesday. (more…)

USAID: the Empire Reinvents Itself

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 13, 2025

Musk and Trump, photo: Aaron Schwartz, Bloomberg

Elon Musk, sworn in as Secretary for Government Efficiency, thundered: “The time has come for USAID to die.” His words resonated like the harbinger of an imminent storm. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump, on his first day back in the White House, ordered the suspension of almost all US foreign assistance for three months, especially that of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). (more…)

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