By Luis Domínguez Castellano on November 2, 2026
foto: efe
The United States Embassy in Havana has hung a banner on the façade of its building. The sign reads “Freedom 250” — evoking the concept of freedom and apparently referencing the anniversary of the country’s Declaration of Independence, adopted 250 years ago in 1776. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia Elizalde on November 2, 2026
foto: Bill Hackwell
As Cuba faces one of its most challenging economic periods in decades, the government is pursuing a transformation of its state-run business system aimed at increasing production, improving efficiency, and preserving public ownership of strategic resources. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on November 2, 2026
Luisa González arrested, October 22, 2026.
Ecuadorian leftist leader Luisa González recently warned that there is “a whole sinister network involving Marco Rubio, MAGA, and Latin American presidents who are destroying our countries to turn Latin America into their backyard.” A few days after her eerily prescient statement, she was arrested on politically motivated charges. (more…)
A foto collage by Roberto Chile on November 1, 2025 from Mexico City
Bright orange marigolds, lit candles, and faces painted like the elegant skulls known as catrinas fill the streets every year during the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico. (more…)
By Jemima Pierre, on October 31, 2026
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, joins Erik Prince, the US, and the UN to kill more Haitians.
Haiti is the next battle ground for Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s despotic, right-wing, Christian zionist president. Over the past few days, he has deployed Salvadoran soldiers to Haiti on chartered cargo flights, with more than 1000 of these mercenary vultures expected to descend upon the country. The reason for this foreign military invasion and occupation of a presumably sovereign country? (more…)
Che, speaking at the UN, December 11, 1964
The December cold in Manhattan has a special way of getting into your bones. On December 11, 1964, at 1:47 p.m., the sky was gray and low, as if it, too, were heavy with tension. Outside, the United Nations building stood like a spear of glass and steel against the river: a modern monument to the hope for peace. But inside, in the great hall of the General Assembly, there was no sense of hope. There was a sense of the Cold War. (more…)
By Lilliam Oviedo on October 31, 2026
Last September, Donald Trump said at the United Nations that the United States could “send Iran to hell,” in addition to announcing that he would overthrow the Cuban government and take over Greenland and other parts of the world. It’s no surprise that on October 23, in Florida, he threatened to recolonize Cuba. This is how Trump operates, and the powers that be exploit his ambition and megalomania. (more…)
By Brett Wilkins on October 30, 2026
Lula’s victory is a set back for the Donroe Doctrine.
Progressive leaders in the US House of Representatives on Friday demanded that President Donald Trump recognize Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reelection victory, accusing the Republican of joining defeated far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro’s bid to undermine democracy in Latin America’s largest country. (more…)