Venezuela To Reject Further Deportation Flights as US Ramps Up Economic Sanctions

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…)

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

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…)

Max Lesnik, Prominent Cuban Journalist, Dies in Miami

March 8, 2025

Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel greeting Max Lesnik (R) photo: Prensa Latina

The prominent Cuban journalist Max Lesnik passed away today at the age of 94 in the US city of Miami, where he had lived since 1961. (more…)

International Women’s Day: Grief, Hardship and Hunger Face Women in Gaza

March 8, 2025

As the world marks International Women’s Day, the meaning of this celebration has been eroded for Palestinian women in Gaza amid Israel’s prolonged genocidal war on the territory. (more…)

Trump, the State of the Un-Union Address and Other Nonsense

By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 6, 2025

The so-called State of the Union Address is currently a verbal presentation by the President of the United States to a joint session of Congress (House and Senate) in a plenary hall of the Capitol, which is also attended by members of the Supreme Court, senior government officials, the accredited diplomatic corps and a select list of guests. (more…)

Cuba: That Same Conviction

By Randy Alonso Falcon on March 5, 2025

Homeland or Death

For those of small spirit it was a suicidal phrase. For Cuban revolutionaries it has always been an expression of conviction, of firmness, of an unredeemed willingness to give everything for the beloved homeland. (more…)

Venezuela: Chavez’s Legacy Lives on in His People

By Alejandra Garcia on March 6, 2025

photo: Bill Hackwell

Yesterday, March 5, the Venezuelan people took to the streets to remember Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez, on the 12th anniversary of his physical departure after a strong battle against cancer. From different points of Caracas, Venezuelans united in a great march that advanced through the main avenues of Caracas to the Cuartel de la Montaña 4F, where the mortal remains of the leader who left an indelible mark on the history of Venezuela and Latin America rest. (more…)

Venezuela. Chávez’s Sowing of Seeds on the Monte Sacro

By Geraldina Colotti, on March 5, 2025.

In 2005, on the bicentenary of the oath of Monte Sacro, Hugo Chávez climbed the historic Roman hill, where the plebeians of Ancient Rome took refuge in rebellion against the patricians. “Long live the Venezuelan people and long live the peoples of the world who struggle for life, against war, against imperialism, for freedom, for equality!” said the commander, (more…)

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