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Latin America: A hostage to Trump's United States

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2026-07-18T09:07:41Z

The largest region of the Americas is the only part of the planet where Trump has managed to make significant progress toward his national security policy goals. Trump faces significant difficulties on the domestic front, where he is trying to limit the predicted defeat for the midterm congressional elections in November.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Latin America, Bolivia

Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point

Robert Bartlett — 2026-06-15T12:30:40Z

While we note the “ Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio's Assault on Cuba” we also publish a report on a solidarity delegation to Cuba from the US. [IVP]

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA), Cuba, Internationalism

Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio's Assault on Cuba

David Finkel — 2026-06-15T12:19:53Z

At the same time as Trump pursues his aggressive policies US citizens organize to show their solidarity with Cuba “Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point”.[IVP]

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA), Cuba

Notes on the Political Situation in South America

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra — 2026-05-28T06:34:16Z

“In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the presence of a so-called “middle” economy with its own influence in the region (Brazil), a tradition of struggle and organization on the left, and governments less subservient than the liberal right (such as those of Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay), imperialist interventionism faces more obstacles and has to moderate its attacks. In light of important electoral processes and tests in the class struggle posed by far-right and right-wing governments, such as those in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador, it is worth considering the commonalities across national contexts in the region in the coming months.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia

Trump's Justice Department Bring Charge Against Raul Castro—What's next?

Dan La Botz — 2026-05-25T11:00:15Z

President Donald Trump's Justice Department on May 20, 2026 charged Raúl Castro with murder. Raúl, the 94-year-old brother of Fidel Castro was one of the revolutionaries who overthrew the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and established a Communist pro-Soviet state by 1961. The charges against him stem from February 1996 when a Cuban exile group called Brothers to the Rescue flew two planes toward Cuba but while still in international airspace were shot down by Cuban fighter planes, killing four people in the planes. Now the Trump government is holding Raúl Castro, who has served as head of the Communist Party and chief of state, responsible for those deaths.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Cuba

In the time of predators

Antoine Larrache, Franck Gaudichaud, Héctor A. Rivera — 2026-03-05T14:52:00Z

The attack against Venezuela in early January and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are part of the new U.S. strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations. This aggressive strategy notably involves increased economic pressure and direct military interventionism toward Latin America.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Venezuela, Cuba, Latin America

In defence of Cuba against the neocolonial blockade and starvation imposed by Trump

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra, João Machado, Manuel Rodríguez Banchs — 2026-02-13T18:09:32Z

The neo-fascist in the White House is attempting to bring the Caribbean island and its government to its knees, strangling it economically once and for all, killing its people with darkness and scarcity. But this is not “just” a war against Cuba and its revolutionary tradition. It is the continuation of the war against the sovereignty of all Latin American countries and Latino peoples within the United States. Scheinbaum, Lula, Petro, Orsi and the social democratic governments must emphatically oppose this crime in all international forums and organisations.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Cuba, Latin America

Trump's New Cuba Policy: Bad for Cuba and Migrants

Dan La Botz — 2025-04-24T17:33:45Z

On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden's short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT) designation. The SSOT designation will further isolate Cuba diplomatically and economically.

- Features / United States (USA), Cuba

The case of the young artist Abel Lescay in Cuba

Lisbeth Moya — 2021-12-07T05:04:47Z

“I call on the international left militancy and those who read this text not to hesitate to investigate and support the cause of the political prisoners in Cuba. I call for international solidarity with Abel Lescay, because only in this way will we be heard. The left, in spite of its nuances and differences, must think of itself as one in the world in the face of this type of outrage. ”

- IV563 - December 2021 / Cuba

Cuban dilemmas, socialist debates

Manuel Garí — 2021-08-18T07:45:22Z

“The deepening of democracy is not a threat to the revolutionary process and socialist project. On the contrary, it is a necessary pre-condition for their fulfillment where true emancipation is the goal.”

- IV559 - August 2021 / Cuba