By Laura V. Mor on September 11, 2025, Havana
Rubio, an Uncontrollable Mythomaniac, a new book by journalist and writer Hedelberto López Blanch who is a regular contributor to Resumen Latinoamericano, Rebelión, and Al Mayadeen, was presented on Tuesday afternoon at the International Press Center before a large audience. (more…)
By Roger Harris on September 12, 2025
Venezuelans are rallying against the military threats of the US. Photo: Bill Hackwell
A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up. They casually explained that the mafioso come weekly to collect their drug money. Later I found a playground, which served as a veritable narcotics flea market each night. If a blanquito from the suburbs and some third graders could uncover the illicit trade, I wondered why the officials – who plastered the city with “keep New York drug free” signs – couldn’t do the same. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 12, 2025
foto: José Manuel Correa
The use of a law that should have no place in contemporary international relations demonstrates the U S. administration’s obstinacy in maintaining the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba intact, ignoring the rejection of the majority of people of the international community and the clamor within the United States itself for this policy to end. (more…)
By Brasil de Fato on September 12, 2025 from São Paulo
Jair Bolsonaro, foto: Sérgio Lima/AFP
The decision by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and Armed Forces officers for attempted coup d’état was considered a historic day and a milestone in the defense of Brazilian democracy by experts interviewed by Brasil de Fato. Of those convicted, Walter Braga Netto, Mauro Cid, Augusto Heleno, and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira became the first military personnel convicted of attempting a coup d’état in the country. (more…)
September 8, 2025
Residente’s Concert in Mexico City of 180,000 fans to protest Gaza genocide,at one of the city’s largest cultural event ever. foto: Jair Cabrera Torres
The Residente Gaza Concert Protest on September 6, 2025, brought an estimated 180,000 people together in Mexico City’s iconic Plaza del Zócalo. Renowned Puerto Rican musician René Pérez Joglar, known as Residente, used the free concert as a platform to demand justice for Palestine and call for a world free from war, emphasizing his enduring commitment to social causes and denouncing the genocide perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza Strip. (more…)
September 11, 2025, Caracas
Venezuela’s National Electric Corporation (CORPOELEC) has reported a criminal attack on the National Electric System (SEN) in an incident affecting two transmission lines in eastern Venezuela, which interrupted services until power was restored in what the agency called record time. (more…)
By Dariel Pradas and Reed Lindsay on September 11, 2025, Havana Cuba
Cuba has long been an international powerhouse in sports like baseball and boxing. Basketball has been an afterthought. But on February 25, 2024, Cuba’s national basketball team did the unthinkable, beating the United States 81-67 in front of a roaring crowd at Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva Coliseum. (more…)
By Belly of the Beast on September 9, 2025
Cuban Women’s volleyball team
The Cuban women’s national volleyball team was denied visas to compete in Puerto Rico. This decision cost them their chance to qualify for international tournaments such as the Olympic Games that will be held in Los Angeles in 2028. (more…)