By Alejandra Garcia on November 5, 2025
Chavez’s cry, “FTAA go to Hell”
Twenty years ago today, the city of Mar del Plata became the emblematic stage for Latin America’s reaffirmation of sovereignty against U.S. interference during the historic People’s Summit. It was here that the fate of the U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was sealed—a project designed to favor transnational corporations at the expense of the continent’s national industries. (more…)
November 2, 2025, Caracas Venezuela
A repatriated Venezuelan migrant setting foot at Simón Bolívar International Airport, Oct.29, 2025.
Venezuela has received 573 more repatriated migrants from the United States this week aboard two flights that landed at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira state. (more…)
By Sacha Llorenti.on November 3, 2024
The world is undergoing a serious process of moral degradation. It is driven by those who wield global power and see their interests seriously threatened by the emergence of a world in which US hegemony is irretrievably breaking down. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 4, 2025
The announcement of the suspension (postponement) of the 10th Summit of the Americas has not made many headlines in the regional press, nor has it caused any surprises among observers of international affairs or prompted statements from many foreign ministries in the region, at least in the first 24 hours after the announcement. (more…)
Article and photos by István Ojeda Bello on November 3, 2025
This eyewitness coverage of an area of Eastern Cuba gives us a glimpse of the coordination in the rescue and recovery by the Cuban military (FAR) with local leaders and the people impacted by Hurricane Melissa – to date there has been no deaths from the devastating storm in Cuba.
Las Tunas – The road between Las Tunas and Bayamo offers the first evidence of the magnitude of the disaster from Hurricane Melissa. Sections near Jucarito, Vado del Yeso, Grito de Yara and, above all, Miradero, east of the bridge over the Cauto River, have literally disappeared. Only the power of the trucks transporting the Armed Forces’ amphibious vehicles manages to keep us moving forward. (more…)
By Clovaldo Hernandez on October 30, 2025
foto: Bill Hackwell
Besieged by a military force carrying out extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean and constant psyops, Venezuela is making sweeping preparations for the worst-case scenario, without renouncing normalcy and the cheerful spirit that defines its people. (more…)
By Salim Lamrani on November 1, 2025
protest in front of the White House for Cuba, June 2023. foto: Bill Hackwell
On October 29, 2025, for the 33rd consecutive year, during the United Nations General Assembly, 165 countries demanded the lifting of the United States’ unilateral economic sanctions that have been strangling the Cuban population since 1960. Unlike the previous year—when only Israel sided with Washington in opposing the resolution presented by Havana—this time five other nations yielded to the strong pressure exerted by the Trump administration: Argentina, Hungary, North Macedonia, Paraguay, and Ukraine. Twelve other countries chose to abstain. (more…)
By Becca Renk Foster on November 1, 2025
images from the El Porvenir worker-owned coffee cooperative
“We were already struggling with 18% tariffs this year, I don’t know how we could export our coffee under 100% tariffs,” René Gaitan tells me as we watch the clouds clear out over a breathtaking expanse of Nicaraguan landscape. The view from the El Porvenir worker-owned coffee cooperative stretches from Lake Managua up toward the Honduran border, dominated by the smoking crater of the Telica volcano. Gaitán is the vice president of the 51-family cooperative. (more…)