By John Perry on March 12, 2026
Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from a company, Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), that was planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous Lenca community. (more…)
By Justine Medina on March 11, 2026
“Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall meetings during Cuba’s constitutional convention process of 2018. But I immediately thought, of course, of any Nochebuena celebration at my dad’s house, just a few hundred miles north. Siblings, cousins, babies, abuelas, family, and friends of all ages and political opinions gathered around a brilliant feast. Between the devouring of lechón, yuca, plátanos, and flan, a flurry of back and forth between English and Spanish. Everyone hugging, praying, laughing, and occasionally yelling. Well, maybe more than occasionally. (more…)
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…)