Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege U.S. Forces Kidnapped and Tortured Them As airstrikes and reports of torture under Ecuador’s U.S.-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site News they were blindfolded and held hostage for eight days.

From Drop Site: 36 survivors of two Pacific attacks allege that they were abducted and tortured by U.S. forces and taken by boat all the way to El Salvador before being returned to Ecuador.

‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

Danielle Smith has a plan to destroy public health care in Alberta—and she’s not doing it alone.

Documents and lobbying records reveal the government is consulting directly with Canada’s private insurance giants on how to implement two-tier health care, reports @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social

When Flotillas Fight for Life, Not Empire. Delivering Aid to Cuba with the Nuestra América Convoy.

United States is currently imposing some of the harshest sanctions on Cuba ... compounding a 67-year blockade that has restricted access to medicine, fuel, and food. But in recent months the U.S. added a naval blockade to severely limit fuel imports, leading to a humanitarian crisis.

What You Need to Know About The Lawyers Who Helped Overturn Colorado's Conversion Therapy Ban Spencer Macnaughton | Uncloseted Media Weekly Newsletter

"Another accurate headline would have been: 'Supreme Court sides with notorious anti-LGBTQ hate group to re-legalize conversion therapy in Colorado.'"

Exclusive: The President and the Musician, from Cuba Also in this edition: Reclaiming sacred lands. San Quintín: the arid poverty of the desert. Mexico denounces the treatment of detained immigrants in the U.S. Museum of Women.

“There is a multidimensional crisis in the capitalist system. That always makes capitalism more aggressive, more ultra-conservative. We are witnessing a resurgence of fascism,” says President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

How U.S. Sanctions Are Fueling Hunger in Cuba Photo credit: Radio Angulo

Medea Benjamin: How U.S. Sanctions Are Fueling Hunger in Cuba

The Quiet Powerbroker — The Dial Who really controls international debt?

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The Quiet Powerbroker — The Dial
"Ultimately, vast sums of money are being transferred from developing to developed countries, dwarfing aid flows in the other direction."

Premature Babies Evacuated After Israeli Attack on Al-Shifa Returned to Gaza After More Than Two Years “I am meeting my daughter for the first time. It’s as if today is the day of her birth. I can’t describe my feelings.”

“I’m waiting for my son Mahmoud. I haven’t seen him in two and a half years except once, before he was transferred to Egypt." Premature Babies Evacuated After Israeli Attack on Al-Shifa Returned to Gaza After More Than Two Years

Cuba on Fumes as Rubio Smirks, Trump Flip-Flops on Criminal Blockade By Ann Wright, Former U.S. Diplomat

Cuba on Fumes as Rubio Smirks, Trump Flip-Flops on Criminal Blockade

Joel Suárez: “Solidarity is the political name for love”  In the context of the arrival of the Nuestra América convoy in Cuba, Joel Suárez spoke with La Jornada opinions editor Luis Hernández Navarro about the motivations of those who have rallied to help the island in the face of President Donald Trump’s “cynical and genocidal siege.” I am pleased to share some excerpts of their conversation here.

After the arrival of the Nuestra América convoy in Cuba, Joel Suárez spoke with La Jornada writer Luis Hernández Navarro about the motivations of those who have rallied to help the island in the face of Trump’s “cynical and genocidal siege.” I am pleased to share part of their conversation here.

Half a Century of Resistance in Argentina Also in this edition: Granma 2.0 arrives in Cuba. For every ill, mezcal? Nearly 500,000 Indigenous Mexicans living in the U.S. Ayotzinapa: Sheinbaum seeks UN help.

The English edition of La Jornada Internacional looks at 50 years of art and struggle in Argentina.

How the US Became an International Serial Killer By: Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

Remember the olden days of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon when the U.S. carried out covert assassination plots against foreign leaders? Over time, its leaders – and not just Trump – have moved to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy.

Carney: Say no to Military Action in the Middle East As Canadians, we are deeply concerned about reports that Canada could become involved in another military conflict in the Middle East. Military conflicts cost billions of dollars that ultimately come...

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WHO alarmed by health turmoil in Cuba

Speaking of Cuba: "Health should be protected at all costs and never be at the mercies of geopolitics, energy blockades and power outages," World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday.

West refuses to condemn slavery at UN The Global South voted for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Europe abstained. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it.

Ben Norton writes…

Cuba Is Prepared to Offer Compensation to Americans Who Lost Property in the 1959 Revolution Cuba is willing to put the “lump sum” compensation measure on the table in talks with the U.S., a Cuban official told Drop Site in an exclusive interview.

Cuba Is Prepared to Offer Compensation to Americans Who Lost Property in the 1959 Revolution (After the revolution, Cuba negotiated compensation with Canada, Switzerland, the U.K., Spain, France and others, but the U.S. refused to participate, planning to overthrow Castro’s government instead.)

Negotiating the Future of North America Also in this edition: The Tabacalera neighborhood, between revolutionary splendor and modernity. One in 12 workers in the U.S. is Mexican. Iran: the beginning of the end for Trump?

“It might be better for Mexico to let time pass while waiting for a less uncertain and gloomy political scenario in Washington…. What must be avoided, above all, is allowing Trump’s recklessness and volatility to lead to an unfavourable negotiation for our country.” (Same for Canada.)

Grieving Parents in Iran Spend Every Night at the Graves of Their Children, Killed by U.S. Strike As Ramadan comes to a close, families in Minab, Iran struggle to come to terms with the scale of death, one of the deadliest single attacks on children in memory.

Grieving Parents in Iran Spend Every Night at the Graves of Their Children, Killed by U.S. Strike

Trump Can’t Blockade Love: Why I’m Going to Cuba Leonardo Flores, CODEPINK

Leonardo Flores writes of Cuba and Venezuela.

Ecuador bans opposition party, criminalizes ecological defenders, joins U.S. military attacks Amid free trade talks with Canada, Ecuador bans an opposition party, criminalizes ecological defenders. and conducts joint military operations with the United States.

Amid free trade talks with Canada, Ecuador bans an opposition party, criminalizes ecological defenders. and conducts joint military operations with the United States.

Ecuador Suspends the Country’s Largest Opposition Party Increased political repression takes place alongside illegal joint military strikes by US and Ecuadorian military forces, and Donald Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” summit.

This should rule out a new Canadian trade deal with Ecuador. Absolute depravity from the Noboa government w/ full backing of Trump and, through its silence, Canada. #ISDS #cdnpoli cepr.net/newsroom/ecu...

Press Release: 77 Civil Society Organizations Call on the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Speak Out on the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders by DPM Metals Inc.

Read the full letter and press release here: miningwatch.ca/news/2026/3/...

“The First Victim Was the Truth” – The Cognitive War on Venezuela Leonardo Flores, CODEPINK

This reflection on the U.S. attacks on Venezuela is useful as we hear very contradictory statements from the U.S. government about Cuba.

The Shield of the Americas: a summit of nations on their knees The sight of a dozen leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean joined with Donald Trump made me think of a 1992 film, El Viaje, and its depiction of the Organizations of Countries on their Knees.

The sight of a dozen leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean joined with Donald Trump made me think of a 1992 film, El Viaje, and its depiction of the Organizations of Countries on their Knees.

'Punching them while they're down': US & Israel bomb Iran's schools & hospitals, with 'no stupid rules of engagement' The US & Israel bombed 20 schools & 13 hospitals in Iran in 1 week. War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted of unleashing "death and destruction" to provoke collapse, with "no stupid rules of engagement".

The US & Israel bombed 20 schools & 13 hospitals in Iran in 1 week. Hegseth boasted of unleashing "death and destruction" to provoke collapse, with "no stupid rules of engagement".

The War in the Middle East, Seen from Mexico Also in this edition: Stories from Cuba. Nearly 4,000 immigrant children jailed by Trump. What comes after the death of El Mencho? A trip to the Prado Museum.

The War in the Middle East, Seen from Mexico. “From any angle, the joint aggression launched against Iran by the governments of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu places the world in a far more sinister and dangerous situation than the one that prevailed until last weekend.”

Venezuela After January 3: A Nation Standing in the Storm On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again — a warning written nearly two centuries ago by Simón Bolívar in 1829:

Simón Bolívar in 1829: “The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”

“When We Are Finished, Take Over Your Government” Between Liberation and Empire

"The nation that promises freedom after regime change is often the very nation that has long undermined that country's sovereignty and self-determination."