September 11, 2026 from Santiago Chile
Carabineros arrest a woman during a march in Santiago in memory of the victims of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Photo: AFP
Chile’s far-right President, José Antonio Kast, ignored the 53rd anniversary of the September 11, 1973, coup d’état, when General Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) overthrew the government of Salvador Allende (1970–1973); yesterday, for the first time since the return to democracy, there was no official commemoration for the tens of thousands of victims of the dictatorship. In contrast, organizations representing the families of detainees, the disappeared, and political prisoners, as well as universities, memorial sites, and the center-left, did hold several ceremonies. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on September 12, 2026
“Neither Luma, nor the Board, nor a colony.” Photo: Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco/Latino Rebels
These days, amid the many demands of the Puerto Rican people—for decent health care, education, and housing; for an end to the destruction and sale of our coastlines and protected lands; and for access to water in the midst of a brutal drought—the demand for control over our energy sources and distribution is gaining momentum. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on September 11, 2026
September 11, 1973, was a dark day for Chile and all of Latin America, as it marked the bloody coup d’état that brought an end to the unprecedented experiment of building socialism within the framework of bourgeois democratic institutions. (more…)
Cuba received a new shipment of humanitarian aid from Mexico on Friday, the thirteenth such shipment, which arrived along with donations from member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).September 12, 2026 from Havana
Oncology doctors in the Fajardo Hospital with Amado Riol, You Have to Love Cuba and Gerardo Hernandez, head of the CDR’s. foto: Bill Hackwell
The Trump Administration tries its hardest to portray the Cuban people as being broken and defeated as they face a full blown blockade that has gone on for over 65 years. Marco Rubio rants and raves every Thursday as he tightens it down in new ways of deprivation. Meanwhile the Cuban people, as they endure these hardships, are anything but defeated. Here is just one story of thousands where Cubans are improvising and connecting on the community level. Most of these stories go untold. They take place without media attention or credit but they are a fundamental way of operating with a collective consciousness to overcome this economic war against them. Here is a glimpse of the day to day struggle for food and medical care from the You Have to Love Cuba project. – Resumen (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 11, 2026
Jiang Zhaohe (China), detail from Liumin Tu (Refugees), 1943.
Capitalism depends on precarious migrant labor to discipline workers, deepen division, and extract wealth. While weaponizing anti-immigrant rhetoric to obscure the neoliberal destruction of public services and social welfare. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on September 10 from Havana
Although the title of this commentary seems straight out of a tabloid, the reality is that the head of the U.S. State Department, the mythomaniac Marco Rubio, has developed a diabolical obsession with trying to overthrow the Cuban government. (more…)
Statement on September 10, 2026 from Mexico City
Donations in support of our sisters and brothers in Cuba
Simón Bolívar taught that unity is necessary in our America, “not to fight or conquer anyone, not to wage war against anyone, but to defend it from common dangers, to secure respect for its sovereignty, to resolve its differences through conciliation, and to strive for its prosperity and progress.” (more…)