Video - More Than a Sanda Fighter
https://peertube.world/w/8AZPy2zDpmK9rCfNVZMdXs
Duration - 3:00

[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Being a #trans #athlete means carrying more than gloves. It means carrying expectations, fear and responsibility. Malik speaks openly about facing #transphobia and machismo in Sanda’s sport, being pushed past ethical boundaries and the pressure of being the first, knowing that others will come after him. Malik reminds us that trans people don’t need to prove anything. Their existence is already enough.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #sports #LGBTQ+

Cuba Releases Three Panamanian Women Detained Over Subversive Signs

Cuban authorities have ordered the release of three Panamanian women detained since late February on accusations of spreading subversive propaganda against the Cuban government, Panama’s Foreign Ministry said Friday. The women — Evelyn Castro, Cinthia del Carmen Camarena and Abigail Sthefany Gudiño — will be allowed to leave Cuban territory, the ministry said [...]

#Featured #LatinAmerica #News #Panama

https://ticotimes.net/2026/04/25/cuba-releases-three-panamanian-women-detained-over-subversive-signs

Holy shit, #AI stealing in #Chile is going to be LEGAL.

Corpos will be able to scrap any public data for AI training, without retribution or compensation. Literally the paradise for stealing shit without consent.

If passed, it's going to be the ultimate "fuck you" to intellectual rights.

https://www.cnnchile.com/cultura/scd-y-sociedad-de-escritores-rechazan-norma-sobre-propiedad-intelectual-en-el-proyecto-de-reconstruccion-nacional_20260423/

#Stealing #Piracy #ArtificialIntelligence #Latam #Latinamerica #AITraining #LLM #IntellectualProperty

From beauty to transportation, a lack of water and power forces Cubans to change their routines
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-power-water-routines-trump-us-government-c4e85c4a9236b881667c0e931b2b5576

from #AssociatedPress #AP
April 23, 2026 [with video]

Severe shortages of water, power and money combined with a #US #energy #blockade have deepened poverty and increased hunger across the island as severe blackouts persist. Even those who are more affluent are now eliminating long-established and often beloved routines as they adapt to increasingly dire realities.

#Cuba’s government has said that the elimination of the U.S. energy #embargo was a top priority for its delegation, calling it an “act of economic coercion” and “unjustified punishment.”

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol

Are you writing about #Mexico or lands south? Some interesting stats here on how life has changed there - have your assumptions, portrayal?

#LatinAmerica's Demographic Transformation by the Numbers https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/latin-americas-demographic-transformation-by-the-numbers/

#Writingtip #amwriting #writing #setting #character

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116460041835770293

With all respect to brother Connolly, would "us" include women? Africans, native Americans, all colonialism's victims?

What was taken from Ireland mostly was Irish working people used as slave labor in the forsaken land of the Anglo-colonies. The resource of Ireland were the healthiest and most powerful of Irish young people.

In Africa there barely was nothing left behind for them to take, and indirectly they are still taking today, the English, the French, the Dutch, ..

All those palaces and castles in Spain and Portugal, literally have bones of native Americans in them. And all of MAN-kind's creations were built by enslaving women.

#women #africa #nativeamericans #latinAmerica #colonialism #chiapas

A mass trial in El Salvador and other top photos from Latin America and the Caribbean - AP News

https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxPU3NWNzBKbm1mYjRPRmZUWmRNWFhIX3VzeXY2VVpFemlZWnBzZjl3a2o0NEtuZ216MmU2bTFvczdEZjV2ZlRRZ2pJbDEzMnRlUzR4STlMUGRjdGdpWGIwU0ZvbGY5Q3N6U0RILW12Ri0xVjRNQ1hZeGViYTNUUGY3eXVOS1hWdGFjSTVJS3RfbkQtNGZYWjdpbm1QZWFUN1NSTk9ITXVnajZ6UQ?oc=5

#WorldNews #Photography #LatinAmerica