By William Serafino on September 26, 2026
Trump and Brazilian President Lula da Silva at the ASEAN Summit in Malaysia, October 2025. photo: Daniel Torok
In a few days, the future of Brazil will be decided in a context marked by open interference by the Trump administration. On October 4, in Latin America’s largest economy, Brazilians will vote in the first round of the presidential elections. They will elect governors, senators, and deputies at the federal, state, and district levels. (more…)
By Matt Willgress on September 25, 2026
US-financed Contra counter-revolutionaries in Southeast Nicaragua 1987
The US project to recolonize Central and Latin America means regime change in Nicaragua is now on Trump’s agenda. (more…)
September 26, 2026
Bruno at the UN
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced at the UN on Saturday that his country is facing a multidimensional aggression by the United States government — a permanent, abusive, and ruthless hostility that has lasted for nearly seven decades. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote, on September 25, 2026
illustration: Adano
As detentions of Cubans in the United States increase, the voices most critical of Havana remain silent; no politician—and almost none of the so-called influencers—is speaking out to denounce the abuse. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 24, 2026
illustration: Lacoste
The U.S. government may continue to lie from the UN podium, but free Cuba will continue to exist
Just because a lie is repeated a thousand times doesn’t make it true; President Trump called Cuba “an absolute failed state” from the UN podium. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 24, 2026
“A bully doesn’t just threaten the person right in front of them. They need others to be watching. They need an audience.” foto: AFP
Like so many people, I’ve been watching the international scene these days with a mixture of astonishment and alarm. Not because lies, violence, betrayal, or the abuse of power are anything new. What is disturbing is that they are once again being peddled as virtues; that threats are passed off as leadership, humiliation as firmness, and bluster as foreign policy. And here is Donald Trump now, speaking from the United Nations podium to remind the world who has the biggest stick. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on September 23, 2026
Women in Power or Power-hungry Women?
Women who attain political power are often judged by the US-aligned corporate press not simply by what they do but by how politically acceptable they are. This is evident in the strikingly different media treatment of three Latin American leaders, all lifelong leftists, raising the question of how relations with the US shape media judgments of political legitimacy. (more…)
By Carlos Ron on September 22 2026
Chavez speaking at the UN, 2006
Venezuelan researcher Carlos Ron remembers Chávez’s historic speech at the UN which, in addition to criticizing Bush, also called for upending the US-dominated international order. (more…)