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How is Cuba experiencing the energy blockade?

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Havana
Everyone seems outraged by Trump, his geopolitical interpretations, his political measures, and his wars. However, both politicians and mainstream media then agree with him that the situation in Cuba is desperate and on the verge of collapse. The scenario they promote is that of a failed state so that a military intervention can be interpreted not so much as aggression, but as salvation or, at the very least, something that cannot worsen the situation.

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Artificial intelligence threatens to increase inequality

5 min read STEVEN SEAMAN

STEVE SEAMAN

A quarter of the world's population, 2.200 billion people, still lack internet access, according to data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This digital divide risks widening with the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2025, 85% of urban residents used the internet, but almost half of the rural population (58%) still did not. The digital divide also shows a marked gender bias: it affects 52% of women compared to 42% of men.

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From blockade to suffocation: the United States' war against Cuba enters its most brutal phase

5 min read MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS 0 comments

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a generator at a distant hospital and the murmur of a family gathered by candlelight. For them, “U.S. national security” is not an abstract concept debated on American cable news; it is the tangible reality of a 20-hour blackout, the smell of spoiled food, and the fear for a child’s refrigerated medication.

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With Nicolás Maduro on the eve of his kidnapping

8 min read IGNACIO RAMONET 0 comments

IGNACIO RAMONET
It was a month ago. On the night of January 2-3, 2026. It was a few minutes before 2:00 a.m. on that sinister Saturday… We were shocked by the brutality of the attack under the full moon. The violence of the successive explosions. The columns of dark smoke. The intensity of the flames illuminating a stunned, sleepless, and silent Caracas. And then, like a punch to the gut, the news of the kidnapping…

U.S. Latin America Principal4

Watershed

4 min read FARRUCO SESTO

FARRUCO SESTO
I want to begin this note by paying a small personal tribute to my president Nicolás Maduro Moros, who is the president of all Venezuelans, and in whom I recognize, in addition to being a good man, a great revolutionary.

We saw Nicolás in some images and videos that surfaced, and in all of them he appears unharmed, surrounded by his kidnappers, with great dignity, even managing to send his people the message that “we will win” by gesturing with his hands. And perhaps, in passing, a message to the world as well.

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The Venezuelan revolution is still standing: dismantling Trump's psychological operation

10 min read MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS 0 comments

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
Following the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate disinformation campaign has been carried out to sow doubts about the survival of the country's revolution.

The execution of “Operation Absolute Resolve” by the United States, a targeted bombing and the illegal kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, has created a moment of profound crisis, but also of profound clarity.

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Why did Trump send his warships to Venezuela?

5 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

VIJAY PRASHAD
Since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has tried to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, the selection of a replacement president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing multiple sanctions, sabotaging the electrical grid, sending mercenaries, and attempting to assassinate its leaders.

If you can think of any method to overthrow a government, chances are the United States has tried it against Venezuela.

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Nelson Hadad: Netanyahu plans to annex Palestine to Greater Israel

7 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Nelson Hadad is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. He served as Chile's ambassador to Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. At the end of July, in response to the crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip, he decided to draft a letter requesting Israel's expulsion from the UN. We spoke with him about the conflict in the Middle East.

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A Nobel Prize winner in war uniform

3 min read DANIEL JADUE 0 comments

DANIEL JADUE
When the Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, it chose to call "peace" what, in the South, we know as intervention and tutelage. It awarded it to a person who for years has placed herself at the disposal of a foreign power to promote a coup d'état in her own country. Someone who has even called, even in international forums, for foreign military intervention in the genocidal State of Israel, and who, in the midst of the devastation of Gaza, defends the Zionist entity with the grammar of "self-defense."

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Fernando Molina: "The outlook for Bolivia's second round is highly uncertain."

6 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
The surprise results of the first round of Bolivia's presidential elections, in which the Rodrigo Paz/Edman Lara ticket (32,1%) emerged victorious, raises expectations for the runoff on October 19. While the fragmentation of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), which governed the country for nearly 20 years, suggested a right-wing victory, the emergence of the Paz/Lara duo speaks otherwise. Paz will face former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga (26,8%) in a runoff election.

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The Belt and Road Initiative diversifies the paths of cooperation with CELAC

5 min read Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno 0 comments

Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno
During the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC Forum, held on May 13, 2025, in Beijing, Latin American governments articulated a new vision for engagement with China. The future of the BRI in the region will depend not only on Chinese financing and technical expertise, but also on the capacity of Latin American countries to design inclusive development strategies and build effective institutional frameworks. The challenge now is to move from diplomatic declarations to transformative action, and turn the partnership into shared prosperity.

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Leila Guerriero: “What surprised me most was the stigma attached to survivors.”

13 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero was already a renowned journalist before publishing "La llamada," but this book places her in a more than prominent place in the genre with which she is most identified: narrative journalism.
In “The Call,” Guerriero addresses the life of Silvia Labayru, a former militant of the Montoneros guerrilla group and a survivor of the former ESMA clandestine detention center.