By Cindy Forster on March 22, 2026
Leonardo Loza, center, candidate for governor of the department of Cochabamba, in the heart of the most organized left in Bolivia.
Bolivia’s capitalist elites are losing their grip this week in their efforts to crush socialist candidates in “sub-national” elections to be held on March 20. Socialists, most of them Indigenous and campesino, have been elected in assemblies to run as candidates at all levels of local government. The rightwing is terrified of competing with the poor in elections, and to avoid that eventuality, it is illegitimately disqualifying leftist candidates and their parties. The twentieth-century oligarchy won the presidency last November in exactly this fashion, via illicit court rulings. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 20, 2026
Che in Gaza in 1959
Ernesto Che Guevara traveled from Cuba to the Gaza Strip in 1959. A photograph immortalizes that unprecedented moment. He wore the olive drab uniform, the same from the struggles in the Sierra Maestra, which led to the victory of the Barbudos rebels in January of that year. At his side stood Palestinian leaders; in the background, a land marked by resistance and dignity. (more…)
March 19, 2026 from Buenos Aires
foto: Getty images
The government is willing to go to war for the United States. Javier Milei’s subservience to Donald Trump is such that he would agree to send troops to the Middle East in response to a potential request from the White House to attack Iran. “If the United States requested it, yes. Any assistance they deem necessary will be provided,” Communications Secretary Javier Lanari confirmed to the newspaper El Mundo, though he clarified that no such request had been made. (more…)
Communiqué from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
March 19, 2026
On March 17, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Republic of Costa Rica informed our Foreign Ministry, through a Diplomatic Note and without offering any argument, the unilateral decision to close the Embassy of that country in Cuba. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on March 19, 2026 from Havana
A vast and deep-seated cognitive war is being waged by major U.S. and Western information technology (IT) and communication technology (ICT) companies to change minds and distort events in order to portray the oppressors of the people as the good guys and the oppressed as the guilty ones. At the same time, they carry out cyberattacks against the critical infrastructure of other countries to create confusion. (more…)
By Stansfield Smith on March 19, 2026
Tomorrow hundreds of Cuban of solidarity activists from around the world will be arriving on the island by air, land and by boat to stand in solidarity with the Cuban people in this moment of extreme pressure on their homeland by the US. Just when it seems like the over 65 year old blockade of Cuba could not do anything more cruel and asphyxiating the sadistic nature of the Trump Administration comes up with new screws to turn. – editorial (more…)
March 17, 2026 from Caracas
Venezuelan migrants arriving back home.
Last week, Venezuela received three new groups of migrants under the Return to the Homeland Plan, maintaining the consistent pace of repatriation operations seen throughout early 2026. These arrivals at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira, come as the Venezuelan government continues to provide a state-led response to the mass deportations carried out by US imperialism. (more…)
March 16, 2026
Miguel Krassnoff
The issue revolves around Miguel Krassnoff, a former high-ranking officer of the Chilean secret police (DINA), sentenced to over a thousand years in prison for crimes against humanity. On March 4, the right wing began pushing a bill in parliament that could allow for the pardon of notorious murderers like Krassnoff, a process that could extend until mid March, as Kast settles into his office. (more…)