By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 10, 2026
Baghdad during sanctions, just before it was bombed again. fotos: Bill Hackwell
In 2003, before the United States unleashed the war in Iraq, a webcam maintained a fixed shot of Baghdad for hours. The page’s tagline was more important than the technology: “They are not numbers.” There were no military maps or war reports there, just a street, cars, pedestrians—people still coming and going in a city about to be bombed. The camera didn’t stop the invasion. However, it did something essential. It put a face on those who would soon be reduced to statistics. (more…)
By Raúl Capote on September 8, 2026
This is not a swing of the pendulum; it is not the classic back-and-forth between conservatives and progressives that has marked Latin American politics since the fall of the military dictatorships. (more…)
By Juan Miguel Lopez on September 4, 2026
all fotos: Juan Miguel Morales
Few singer-songwriters have penned verses as beautifully revolutionary or stanzas as subversively tender as Silvio Rodríguez. This Tuesday, the timeless Cuban troubadour, back in Barcelona a decade after his last concert in the Catalan capital, demonstrated at the Liceu why he is one of the icons of song. (more…)
By Pablo Jofré Leal on September 7, 2026.
foto: Hispan
The Brazilian political landscape, in the run-up to the October 2026 presidential elections, is not merely a domestic struggle for the executive office in the Planalto Palace; it is the epicenter of a low-intensity geopolitical war. (more…)
September 7, 2026.
Mexico. Sheinbaum Responds to Trump’s Map: “Mexico Is Not a Colony of Any Country”
As part of the celebrations for the Month of the Fatherland, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo responded to the provocations of U.S. President Donald Trump with a strong and clear message reaffirming Mexico’s independence and sovereignty (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on September 6, 2025
Cerimedo “planned” the attack and “remotely directed the ambush” to kill his girlfriend.
Since his arrest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on August 18, after ordering the murder of his girlfriend, Fernando Cerimedo has become a fan spreading filth everywhere.
The newly minted electoral consultant for Latin America’s far right has gone from being a man who was flattered and sought after to a true pariah.
The revelations—sums of money, recordings, and bot farms—that have gradually come to light are unraveling a dark continental web of election rigging, manipulation of public opinion, political corruption, and the buying of favors, causing unease in Washington, Miami, Mexico City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Bogotá, Lima, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and La Paz.
The tentacles of this powerful techno-fascist network even reach as far as Madrid. (more…)
By Lea Aschkenas on September 5, 2026
foto: Bill Hackwell
Recently, while listening to an NPR interview with Cuban-American musician Arturo Sandoval, I was reminded of the late political scientist Michael Parenti’s classic text, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media. In his 1986 book, Parenti described a situation that is still relevant forty years later— when the US fears that another country’s non-capitalistic political model (and its attendant advances in social justice and quality of life) could cause US citizens to question their own system, it regularly imposes an embargo and sanctions against the country. (more…)
September 6, 2026 from Havana
fotos: Estudios Revolución
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro Ruz, and the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, participated in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the Personal Security Directorate.
The commemoration was attended by other leaders of the Cuban Party, State, and Government, along with founders of that security agency. (more…)