Latin America Daily Briefing

In a 100-page report released yesterday, the U.S. State Department denounced Cuba as the “capital of 21st-century communism”, accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion” that has “infiltrated the highest reaches of the US government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists [and] backed an unprecedented wave of leftwing terrorism...

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country.

He had been missing for more than a week after his prison sentence ended, human rights activists said he was a victim of a forced disappearance. His exile came after suppor...

Neo-Colonialism

“The U.S. takeover of Venezuela reflects the mechanics of the new age of empire, in which it has become increasingly unnecessary, inconvenient, expensive and illegal for great powers to declare formal occupations of small states,” writes Linda Kinstler in the

Brazil has promised to retaliate against Washington’s decision to impose 25% tariffs on imports of most Brazilian products, scheduled to take effect next week. The order exempts some goods that are not produced in the U.S. or that officials worry would disrupt supply chains — including coffee, beef, oranges and orange juice and aircraft components. (

Today’s World Cup semifinal in Atlanta “carries enormous emotional weight. Few rivalries in international soccer carry the same charge — a collision of politics, culture and sports — as England against Argentina at the World Cup,” reports the