By Atilio Boron on March 11, 2025 from Buenos Aires
In his address to both houses of Congress on March 1, President Javier Milei reiterated that one of the objectives of his administration is to reduce the size of the state in Argentina to 25% of the GDP. We are not going to dwell on refuting, from the point of view of the history of economic ideas or economic theory, the nonsense of his proposal. (more…)
March 11, 2025
Ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo during a court hearing. Photo: EFE.
Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced a hunger strike on Monday, March 10, denouncing what he calls a “judicial injustice” in his ongoing trial for rebellion and abuse of authority. Castillo, who faces a 34-year prison sentence, claims the process is politically motivated, despite his 2021 election as Peru’s constitutional president. (more…)
La Jornada editorial from Mexico City on March 11, 2025
Illustration: Getty Images, I stock
The extremism and lack of coherence that have characterized Donald Trump’s administration in the less than two months he has been in the White House have caused economic setbacks that yesterday led to a fall in the stock markets, both at home and abroad: on Wall Street the S&P and Dow Jones indexes reached record lows, (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on March 11, 2025 from Havana
US President Donald Trump signing one of his many executive orders. Photo: EFE.
The bellicosity of Donald Trump, on full display at the opening of the legislative sessions of the United States Congress, is evidence of a megalomania directly proportional to the fronts of conflict that he is projecting in parallel and simultaneously. His provocations, threats, denials and interventionist preparations are all aimed at recovering the geopolitical supremacy that was considered imperishable four decades ago. (more…)
March 11, 2025 from Havana
Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil
In a major escalation of its repression against the movement for Palestine, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the US is threatening to deport a Palestinian activist who is a U.S. resident. We republish a petition demanding his release. – Network in Defense of Humanity – Cuba (more…)
March 9, 2025 from Havana
Plaza of Revolution, May 1, 2022. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Compatriots: Today the homeland faces a growing hostility of an increasingly aggressive and arrogant empire, determined to increase a new wave of new neocolonial, fascist and terrorist acts. (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on March 9, 2025 from Caracas
Venezuela will reportedly cease cooperation with the US on the repatriation of migrants. (Presidential Press)
The Venezuelan government will not accept more deportation flights from the US following a recent escalation of coercive measures against the Caribbean country. (more…)
By Helen Yaffe on March 8, 2025
Doctors and nurses from one of Cuba’s Henry Reeve brigades are bid farewell before leaving to Turkey to care for the victims of the earthquake, Feb.10, 2023. Photo: Yamil Lage, AFP
The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. (more…)