By Fidel Rendón Matienzo on August 3, 2025
photo: periodico26
While Trump is making cuts in benefits for the poorest he is moving forward on spending $200 million to build a ballroom in the White House. Meanwhile the Cuban government with its blockaded economy is set to increase the pensions of retired workers.
Although the partial increase in pensions starting in September now covers 1,324,599 people, or 79% of beneficiaries, the measure offers some hope for many retirees and pensioners due to disability or the death of a spouse. (more…)
By Frei Betto on August 1, 2025
John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress”, depicting Manifest Destiny
War is like Janus: it has more than one face. In addition to military warfare, there are also diplomatic, economic, political, and cultural wars. Cultural warfare consists of imposing the dominant group’s version of reality on the dominated. This is what the entertainment industries of Disney and Hollywood have always done. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on August 2, 2025
The governor of Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard after thousands of homes were left without water. Photo: Prensa Latina
The governments that have administered this country, especially in recent years, have completely ignored their main objective, which is to ensure public welfare. This means guaranteeing all the basic services necessary for the people to live a dignified life: primarily health, housing, and education. These services must be accompanied by a complementary network of other services such as telecommunications, water, and energy. But as the neoliberal process deepens colonization, the corruption that accompanies privatization also advances unchecked, with no restrictions within government structures to defend the people. In other words, in Puerto Rican slang, we are “algarete,” that is, out of control, disorganized, adrift. (more…)
By Iliana García Giraldino / Photos: Orlando Perera on July 31, 2025 from Havana
US students who graduated from ELAM this year
The graduation celebration of 11 young Americans from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) was a blend of emotions, humanism, spirituality, social commitment, and energy for the challenges ahead—along with deep gratitude toward Cuba, which congratulated them with the confidence that they will fulfill their duties upon returning to their communities: providing comprehensive healing, solidarity-based, and non-commercial medical care. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on July 30, 2025
Haitian women having their blood pressure taken at a mobile clinic staffed by a Cuban medical brigade in Salomon market in Port-au-Prince.
The Cuban revolution endures despite more than 60 years of U.S. attacks. One system exploits the people, while the other prioritizes their needs. Which nation deserves the label of “failed’? (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on July 31, 2025 from Havana
Trump in Butler Pa. on July 13, 2024, photo: Anna Moneymaker/ Getty Images
Two weeks ago marked the one-year anniversary of the alleged assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time, we took some notes on what seemed like a poorly told official story. More than twelve months later, that assessment has only been reinforced.
As part of the public reaction, both inside and outside the United States, to the events that took place on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, it was almost impossible not to recall the assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 23, 1963. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 31, 2025
Cover of the book “The tyranny of screen nations”. Akal Publishing
In The Tyranny of Screen Nations (Akal, 2025), Andalusian journalist Juan Carlos Blanco issues a warning that is as lucid as it is disturbing: we are no longer governed by states, but by digital platforms that have concentrated economic, cultural, and political power that eclipses that of many nations and transforms citizens into pieces of a social experiment on a planetary scale. (more…)
By Irene Zugasti on July 30, 2025
Joen Suárez, one of the 252 Venezuelans sent to the CECOT, next to his mother Karlyn Fuentes. Photo: Karlos Turrillas/Diario Red
When Joen Suárez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan, was forced into the Salvadoran maximum-security mega-prison known as CECOT (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism), everything was taken from him: his freedom, his time, his rights, his phone, and even his social media accounts, where he made music and shared moments of his life in New York. It is almost as if, by imprisoning him there, they wanted to make him disappear and erase him from the world. (more…)