April 5, 2025 from Quito
Mercenary Erik Prince
Various voices have spoken out against the presence in Ecuador of Erik Prince, founder of the US private security firm Blackwater, who in a video urged people to vote for the current president, Daniel Noboa. (more…)
By Enrique Milanés León on April 7, 2025
Raul, Vilma and Fidel, photo: Granma archives
She was born on April 7, 1930 and her rebellious spirit, cultivated at home and influenced by the progressive ideas of exiled teachers who had arrived in Cuba after the Spanish Civil War, was further awakened by Fulgencio Batista’s coup on March 10, 1952, when she was not yet 22. Vilma Espín thought it was the last straw that the cheaters did not even respect the recipe of the so-called representative democracy. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on April 8, 2025
The special envoy for Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone (right), analyzed US policies towards the region with the president of the Miami Council on Global Affairs, Aaron Rosen. Photo: The Miami Herald
While Trump concentrates on handing out tariff increases, maneuvering with Ukraine and giving Israel bombs, and Elon Musk continues to apply scissors to the US government apparatus and external aid, the administration’s anti-Cuban team has launched an offensive to prepare the ground for the deployment of its punitive arsenal against Cuba. (more…)
By John Perry on April 6, 2025
Trump’s “Liberation Day”
Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced on President Trump’s “Liberation Day.” (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 6, 2024
On April 2, the Trump administration announced the imposition of tariffs against the majority of nations worldwide, with a special emphasis on Latin American nations, marking a turning point in global trade and the biggest change in the last one hundred years. (more…)
April 6, 2025
Children’s Day in Palestine, which was commemorated this Saturday, was marked by sadness, as the death of 19,000 children aged 0 to 7 years old in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in the occupied territories on October 7, 2023, was confirmed. (more…)
By Ismael Sánchez, on April 4, 2025 from Seville Spain
There are statements that, due to their harshness, deserve to be read twice. Once to understand them and once more to take in the magnitude of their meaning. What Mauricio Claver-Carone, a former Trump administration official on the National Security Council and now the US State Department’s special envoy for Latin America, recently said to the World Affairs Council of Miami is not just another diplomatic anecdote. (more…)
By Diana Block on April 4, 2025
Photo from the U.S. Cuba Normalization Conference website
As the Trump/Rubio diabolical duo devise new attacks against Cuba, hundreds of activists gathered at New York City’s Malcolm X Center over the March 15-16 weekend to strategize how to strengthen solidarity organizing in the U.S. and Canada. (more…)