By Carlos Ron on March 16, 2026
March 7, 2026, at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Donald Trump inaugurated the “Shield of the Americas” summit, convening right-wing leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean’s “Angry Tide” around what he called a ‘counter-cartel coalition’. Washington’s recipe was stated plainly: “The only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing the power of our military.” Monroism is on the offensive, and the Angry Tide has become its shield—not against cartels, but against people-centered projects of national sovereignty. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on March 15, 2026
fotos: Bill Hackwell
The morning of my departure from José Martí Airport, named after the father of the nation, I hugged everybody: the woman who checked me in, the man who stamped my passport, the ground staff. I had hugged all my friends tightly the previous day, my tears fighting for the right to stream down my face. It felt as though, through these hugs, I wanted to somehow transmit my trepidation about what could possibly happen to Cuba, the Cubans, the Cuban Revolution – all of it – because of the madness of Donald Trump. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on March 15, 2026
plaza of the Cuban Revolution, foto: Bill Hackwell
The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a series of military and political offensives in the last several months in different corners of the globe. The goals of Washington’s various military and diplomatic actions have been the subject of heated debate. Are they aimed at reestablishing a threatened hegemony? Do they strive to secure a unipolar position that was never really in danger? Or are these the dying (and most violent) breaths of an empire in decline? (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, from Caracas on March 14, 2026
Ali Chegini, Iranian ambassador to Venezuela
In Plaza Bolívar, photos of the girls killed in Iran by U.S. drones are arranged in a circle beneath the monument to the Liberator. On stage, speeches by activists and artists alternate. At the tables of the Cuba-Venezuela Association, medicines are being collected to send to Havana. Women and men hold flags of Iran, Palestine, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries and movements, including those from the United States, represented by the international delegation of the People’s Congress, which has just arrived from Cuba at the initiative of the Brazilian Landless Movement. Everyone watches, moved, as the Comunicalle theater group performs “La Matria Palestina,” battered, wounded, but not subdued. (more…)
March 13, 2026 from Havana
During a press conference held Friday in the Cuban capital, President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed the existence of a dialogue process — currently in its initial phase — between Cuban officials and representatives of the United States government, aimed at finding solutions to bilateral differences. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 13, 2026 from Caracas
The global political landscape is marked by intense debate over the intentions and methods of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the face of rising aggression with nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Pawel Wargan, Political Coordinator of the Progressive International, offers a critical analysis of what he characterizes as a coherent and rational U.S. strategy aimed at undermining sovereign nations one at a time. (more…)
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…)