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Traumatizing children in the name of immigration enforcement
There is no honest way to talk about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and children without confronting a brutal truth: the U.S. government is knowingly inflicting trauma on…
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The angry tide has washed into Chile
On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by…
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The Trump Corollary is not foreign policy — it’s imperialism in broad daylight
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know what we’re looking at. The so-called “Trump Corollary” — Washington’s newly declared right to reshape Latin America by force, covert ops, or economic…
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Trump’s Caribbean lawlessness
There is a difference between boldness and lawlessness. What the Trump administration calls a campaign to choke cocaine flows and punish “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean increasingly…
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The end of the “Hug Bibi” era
In his sweeping and unsparing critique of Democratic Party policy toward Israel, former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes argues, in an opinion piece written for The New…
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The Cartel de los Soles designation: A useful disguise for regime-change options
On November 24, 2025, the United States Department of State officially designated the Cartel de los Soles (CdS) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The formal designation,…
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U.S. sanctions cruelly choke ordinary Cubans
María Elena keeps a handwritten list taped inside her kitchen cabinet in Centro Habana. It’s her family’s “medicine map” — the cousins in Tampa who might send blood-pressure pills, the…
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The Supreme Court stands on its head
In Trump v. United States (2024), decided 6–3 on July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that a former president enjoys (1) absolute immunity for actions within his “conclusive and…
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Cuban homes and hurricanes
By the time Hurricane Melissa left Santiago de Cuba Bay, almost no houses on Cayo Granma had roofs, and dozens had been completely destroyed.
Many residents spent that night sheltering…
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The Alejandro Gil case: The fall of Cuba’s finance czar
When Alejandro Gil Fernández — once Cuba’s public face of economic reform, a deputy prime minister, and the architect of a significant 2021 monetary overhaul — disappeared from the…
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