August 29, 2025
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino questioned the deployment of destroyers by the United States in the Caribbean, stating that the real objective is not to combat drug trafficking but to attack Venezuela. (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos on August 29, 2025
As the people of New Orleans suffered from mass devastation and state neglect following Hurricane Katrina, Cuba’s offer of solidarity was rejected
Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast of the United States, a Category 5 monster that exposed the raw nerves of inequality, racism, and governmental neglect in the United States. While the storm itself was a force of nature, the true disaster was the response – or lack thereof – from the world’s wealthiest nation. Yet, amidst the chaos and despair, a beacon of international solidarity shone brightly, emanating from an unexpected place: Cuba. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 28, 2025
Venezuela is the target of diplomatic, economic, and media attacks, including military deployment in the Caribbean under the pretext of combating drug trafficking. Photo: AFP
Early last Friday morning, armed agents raided the home of John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, in Bethesda, Maryland. Details about the raid were scarce, but initial reports suggested that officials were looking for evidence that Bolton had disclosed classified information to journalists in his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened. Cameras and microphones, strategically placed in the exclusive neighborhood, turned the operation into a media spectacle rather than a judicial proceeding. (more…)
August 28, 2025, Statement by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs from Havana
The Cuban Government strongly rejects the current deployment of United States military forces in the Caribbean Sea. This dangerous action represents a serious threat and an aggressive show of force against the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. Furthermore, it ignores the commitment of the 33 Member States of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States when they proclaimed the region as a Zone of Peace. (more…)
By Juana Carrasco Martín on August 27, 2025 from Havana
National Guard troops assembled Union Station in Washington DC, Photo :Scott Applewhite/AP)
Members of the National Guard, who together with other federal agencies in a Joint Task Force have occupied the U.S. capital, began carrying weapons on Sunday, as ordered by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who previously said they would only do so if required by justifiable circumstances. (more…)
August 26, 2025
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Monday, August 25, 2025. Photo: X/@MFA_China.
On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that “Latin America and the Caribbean are not anyone’s backyard,” in response to recent reports in which the commander of the US Southern Command accused China of “infiltrating and plundering resources” from countries in the region. (more…)
August 25, 2025
Presidents of Venezuela and Cuba.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated on Monday the support of the largest of the Antilles for the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution in Venezuela, led by President Nicolás Maduro, who faces threats from the United States government. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez,on August 25, 2025
Foto: Agustin Marcarian
Were mistakes made? Of course, and of all sizes. Mistakes that did not begin only when Luis Arce Catacora took office, nor when Evo Morales returned to the country and was greeted by crowds of supporters, nor when Arce and his entourage plunged headlong into neoliberalism, bringing a host of misfortunes to large sectors of the population. In fact, already in the latter part of President Evo’s term, shortcomings were also detected, misguided shifts, internal factions that did not help to build, inconclusive struggles that revealed antagonistic ideological vectors between “Alvaristas” and “Evistas,” and which at the time were denounced by those great revolutionaries, the Peredo brothers (Chato and Osvaldo) and Mallku Felipe Quispe. (more…)