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The safest Latin American cities where expats can buy a house for under $250k
By Ognjen Pavlovic The American dream of homeownership has become increasingly elusive, with the average home price now exceeding $500,000 across the United States. Rising mortgage rates and stagnant wages have pushed affordable housing further...
Bruno Rodríguez: The most urgent priority is to create a new international order that guarantees peace
7 Speech by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the general debate of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. New York, September 27, 2025 Madam President of the General Assembly, Mr....
Digital ID is the linchpin of the UN’s push for a global surveillance state
(The Sociable) — With the adoption of the “Pact for the Future” at the U.N. Summit of the Future in September 2024, 193 member states committed, in a non-binding way, to rolling out digital ID schemes as part of a wider plan for Digital Public...
Mask Off US Empire: War Secretary Tells Military To Commit War Crimes
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered generals and told them to commit war crimes and ignore international law. Trump ordered the military to use US cities as “training grounds” to fight the “enemy within”. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...
Art and Irregular Warfare: Aesthetic Resistance, Symbolic Power, and the Battles for Meaning
Standing before Pablo Picasso’s Guernica in Gernika is more than observing a painting; it is experiencing a cry of anguish cast in oil on canvas. Created in 1937 after the aerial bombing of the Basque town by Nazi and Italian forces allied with...
Where To Travel This October For Less Than $650 Round-Trip
Those of you looking for October flight deals will find this is one of the best times of the year to travel. For starters, we’re still in shoulder season, which means that travelers can snag some of the cheapest flight and accommodation deals....
Neo-Colonialism in LATAM: Part 4: The Monroe Legacy in Steep Decline
The following is the fourth installment in a series of five articles written by Saint Lucia-based journalist Earl Bousquet in connection with the upcoming Conference on ‘Colonialism, Neo-colonialism and Their Consequences’, which will be held in...
Indian Left is obsessed with Latin America. Rahul Gandhi’s visit not surprising
Our country’s official Leader of the Opposition has undertaken a trip to Latin America. This is not a continent that we have paid close attention to or which has had an extreme impact on our psyche. However, there have been some exceptions. In...
Opinion: The soldier next door
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Olexander* knew it was time to evacuate. “We woke up at 5 a.m. from the sound of a missiles that hit the former soviet military base territory near the...
War, apartment fire punctuate Ukrainian woman's unexpectedly long stay in Western Pa.
Nadiia Koshykova packed light on Dec. 12, 2021, when she traveled by rail, then by plane, from her native Ukraine to visit her son’s family in their Ohio Township home. “I have one suitcase — winter clothes,” Koshykova, 66, said. “I wanted to see...
Joan Safford’s life story runs through Los Alamos, a Central American coup and open housing in Evanston
Sign up for our free newsletters to have Evanston news delivered directly to your inbox! Joan Bainbridge Safford’s life story thus far reads like an adventure novel. Safford grew up around the scientists who developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos...
The Struggle to Decriminalize Abortion in Latin America
Through their mobilizations in various Latin American countries, women have made progress in their right to legal, safe, and free abortion as part of health services. However, the regional landscape still shows restrictions and outright bans on...
When is Hispanic Heritage Month? What You Need to Know
Hispanic Heritage Month is just around the corner. Every day is an opportunity to spotlight the contributions of the Hispanic and Latino communities, but between two months, it is celebrated on a national level. Before it was a month-long...
Music meets action at annual Global Citizen Festival in
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 27: Hugh Jackman performs onstage during the 2025 Global Citizen Festival at Central Park on September 27, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Global Citizen) Central Park became both a...
US prosecutors keep charging women with ‘pregnancy-related crimes’
The pregnancy police are racking up arrests Every 74 seconds, someone in the US is sexually assaulted. And every nine minutes that ‘someone’ is a child, according to statistics collated by the anti-sexual violence non-profit Rainn. Instead of...
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is Alleged to Have Coordinated CIA Drug Trafficking Network in Southeast Asia that Financed Black Operations
Richard Armitage in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2004. [Source: nytimes.com] The New York Times and other obituaries predictably left this out Richard Armitage, the number two official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, died on April 13. The New...
This Day in History: What Happened Today in History – 05 October
Every day has a history attached to it — but do we always pause to ask why? What whispered events, triumphs, tragedies, or surprises lie hidden behind a seemingly ordinary date? Today, on October 5, many such stories unfold. On this day in 1813,...
A history of government shutdowns: 14 other times funding has lapsed since 1980
Washington — The U.S. government shut down Wednesday morning after President Trump and congressional Republicans at odds with Democrats over the path forward were unable to avert a lapse in federal funding. Mr. Trump had said Sunday that a...
Who Supports Putin? Nations That Side With Russia
President Vladimir Putin, a former intelligence officer, was first elected president of Russia in 2000. (He was prime minister from 2008–2012, while Dmitry Medvedev held the presidency. He returned as president in 2012 and has remained since.) A...