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Cuban Americans Stance on No Kings Day Protests
By Joven Cuba HAVANA TIMES – Today, in various cities and towns across the United States, the No Kings Day II protest is taking place—a mobilization called by migrant organizations and progressive groups to reject the authoritarian policies of...
Global Stock Rally Pauses As Gold, Silver Slide From Record High
US equity futures are flat, reversing a small overnight loss, with small caps seeing some underperformance in what looks more like profit-taking than material de-risking. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq futures are unchanged after the S&P 500...
The US Government: The Top “Narcoterrorist” on Earth
Trump is using the “war on drugs” to justify imperialist aggression in Latin America. As he put it, “The cartels are waging war in America, and it’s time for America to wage war on the cartels.” The drug epidemic pulls on the heartstrings of...
President Maduro receives credentials from ambassadors of Cuba and Lebanon
President Nicolás Maduro led the reception of credentials from the ambassadors of Cuba and Lebanon in Caracas, reaffirming the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace. President Maduro received credentials from new ambassadors as a sign of respect and...
Trump trains guns on Venezuela: Why now, options before Maduro
The US is building up military presence in the Caribbean Sea, after striking Venezuelan boats it claimed were carrying drugs into the US. US President Donald Trump has authorised the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct covert operations...
Mexico triples oil aid to Cuba. Is Trump looking away?
Andres Oppenheimer President Trump has called Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum “a very wonderful woman” and has praised her for her growing cooperation on migration, drugs and security issues. But he has mysteriously overlooked a glaring fact:...
U.S. Senate Fails in Eleventh Attempt to End Government Shutdown
Senators are scheduled to meet again on Tuesday, Oct. 28 for a new vote. If the government shutdown exceeds 21 days (on Wednesday, October 29), it will become the second longest in U.S. history. The shutdown stems from Democrats’ demand to include...
DHS Implements $1,000 Parole Fee Under H.R. 1
On Oct. 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule in the Federal Register establishing a new $1,000 immigration parole fee required by the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Act. That same day, U.S. Citizenship and...
The Tragedy of Bolivian Socialism
On October 19, Bolivians elected Rodrigo Paz Pereira to the presidency. A center-right senator and son of former president Jaime Paz Zamora (1989-1993), Paz ran on a platform of “Capitalism For All,” defeating conservative former president Jorge...
Prince Andrew’s Kids: Everything to Know About Princesses Beatrice & Eugenie
Prince Andrew, Duke of York is the father of two royal women. Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are the only children of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York. Their father has been in the spotlight since Virginia Giuffre, who is one...
LATAM Geothermal Congress declares a path forward for the region’s geothermal future
The participants at the 1st LATAM Geothermal Congress held in El Salvador (source: Event organizers) The 1st LATAM Geothermal Congress held in El Salvador brought together industry members in the region and made a call to action for a unified...
7 of the best narco TV series of all time
Americans seem to like shows about drug runners almost as much as they like the drugs themselves. And while many of the greatest narco stories are mostly police procedurals like “The Wire,” there are a handful of standout shows that focus at least...
The diplomatic posts at the top of Leo’s to do list
As Pope Leo XIV continues to consider how to reshape his curia, Vatican observers are also eyeing a different slate of posts which could shape both the Church in Rome, and world politics: apostolic nuncios. The apostolic nunciature to the UK....
Authoritarians Embrace ‘Foreign Agent’ Laws to Crush Civil Society
Foreign agents laws are proliferating, increasingly threatening the civil society worldwide, finds CIVICUS report ‘Cutting civil society’s lifeline: The global spread of foreign agent laws,’ released today. Russia’s 2012 foreign agents law...
Delaware Haitians flee to Canada as temporary protections end
Why Should Delaware Care? Many Haitian immigrants in Delaware are fleeing to Canada as the Trump administration throws their temporary legal status into jeopardy and Haiti remains unsafe to return to. The people who remain are stuck in a state of...
Roberto Clemente added to Pittsburgh Walk of Fame
The City of Pittsburgh announced it’s first-ever Walk of Fame class at The Terminal in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, with one noteable member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. All-time great Roberto Clemente was one of the headlining names for this...
Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara leads Chile’s presidential polls
The CP's Jeannette Jara, presidential candidate of the “Unidad por Chile” coalition [Photo: PCCh]In Chile’s 2025 presidential race Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party and presidential candidacy for the alliance “Unidad por Chile”...
Decolonising Democracy in International Relations: Liberalism, the Global Order, and Post-colonial Sovereignty in the Global South
Modern democracy, as it has emerged within the liberal international order, still bears traces of its colonial legacy: it relies institutionally and conceptually on Western norms of recognition, political participation, and global leadership,...
Central America’s Economic Growth Trap: The Dilemma Of Emigration
Many emigrate from Central American countries, particularly El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, to support their families. The money they send back in the form of remittances has become of keystone importance to these Central American economies,...
Guyana ready to host FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship
Oct 21, 2025 Sports (Kaieteur Sports) – President of the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF), Michael Singh, has reaffirmed Guyana’s readiness to host this year’s FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship, scheduled for November 12–16 at the Cliff...