By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva on July 7, 2025
Jeanette Jara, Chilean Communist Party leader. image , Eduardo Ramon Pais
Jeanette Jara (born 1974) prevailed in the Chilean presidential primary of the four major left political forces held on 29 June 2025. With 60% of the vote, Jara defeated Carolina Toha of the Democratic Socialist Party (28%), Gonzalo Winter of the Frente Amplio or Broad Front (9%), and Jaime Mulet of the FRVS, a merger of the Greens and the Progressives (2%). In November, Jara will therefore lead the Unidad para Chile (Unity for Chile) coalition into the presidential elections where she will face the candidate of the right, who will be either Evelyn Matthei (born 1953) of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) or José Antonio Kast (born 1966) of the Republican Party, or she will face both of them if they cannot agree to a single candidate. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on July 7, 2025
Gerardo Hernandez, photo: Bill Hackwell
A meeting in Rome with Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five Heroes who spent 16 years in US federal prisons for monitoring the activities of anti Cuban terrorists operating freely in Southern Florida. (more…)
July 8, 2025 from Rio de Jainero Brazil
On Monday at the Brics meeting in his country, Brazilian President Lula da Silva condemned climate denialism and unilateral actions, warning that they are eroding progress and sabotaging the planet’s future.
“A decade after the Paris Agreement, funding is still lacking for the planned just transition, which is essential for building a new cycle of prosperity,” Lula said in his opening speech at the final debate of the BRICS leaders’ summit in Rio de Janeiro. (more…)
By Jimena Esteban in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chinese Ambassador to Cuba Hua Xin inspects solar panel equipment from China in Guanajay, in Artemisa Province. Photo: Joaquin Hernandez – XINHUA
Cuba may slowly ease its crippling blackouts and strengthen the electricity grid as it begins building seven solar parks with the first batch of equipment from China. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on July 3, 2025
The image reflects the Argentine president’s discomfort and displeasure at having to interact—and be photographed!—with his Latin American counterparts. (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…)