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Lawrence Maximo

Oct 27, 2026, 11:51 AM

Lula’s victory cements the rupture between Brazil and Israel

Following Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Sunday’s election (October 25), a deplorable episode of antisemitism took place in Rio de Janeiro: pro-Lula demonstrators set fire to Israeli and American flags, an act that echoes the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 27, 2026, 1:07 AM

Brazil and Serbia Seal Black Day for Israel Allies

In a razor-thin victory, Brazilian voters re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—long shadowed by the Odebrecht corruption scandal—to the presidency with 51.79% of the vote (64.26 million ballots), defeating right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro at 48.21% (59.83 million). Simultaneously, across...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 24, 2026, 12:11 AM

Mossad Should Aid Bukele and Smash Haiti’s Gangs

Following the high-profile ambush of four Salvadoran aviation technicians in Haiti just days ago, President Nayib Bukele ordered a targeted military operation this week to recover his citizens. The crisis erupted on October 18, 2026, in Croix-des-Bouquets, where local...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 16, 2026, 3:31 AM

Hamas’s Footprint in Latin America

The Islamic Republic of Iran has methodically built a Hamas foothold across Latin America, extending its "Axis of Resistance" deep into the Western Hemisphere. Paraguayan counterterrorism forces first confirmed this forward deployment in November 2000 by arresting Salah Abdul...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

Oct 15, 2026, 7:02 AM

When the Sky Stayed Whole

Illustration generated with AI, inspired by the Independence Day air show in San Salvador, September 15, 2006.

I grew up in a place where the sky could not be trusted. As a child in El Salvador during the war, I learned to read the air before I learned to read books. Silence was not peace; it was...

Oct 14, 2026, 5:32 AM

When Talent Meets Opportunity

On one of the final days of our journey, seven young Latin Americans stood at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem and addressed President Isaac Herzog, one representative for each country in our delegation. Eight days earlier, they had arrived in...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

Oct 1, 2026, 6:10 AM

The Shooting Lasted Ten Minutes

W. E. Gonzalez with his nieces Luna and Estrella at the Philadelphia Marathon in November 2012, during the years when distance running was a regular part of his life.

The shooting lasted about ten minutes. It took me seven to finish breakfast. My wife, my mother-in-law, and my father-in-law were sheltering in the safest part of the house while gunfire echoed outside. I had found the spot for them...

Sep 25, 2026, 11:52 PM

Nothing’s Serious Until It Is

It was 2010 and I had just started university in Bogotá, Colombia. At seventeen, I was just as opinionated as I am now but lacked the words to express myself. I had gotten great scores on the Colombian version...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 22, 2026, 2:37 AM

Bag Ortega Before the Houthis Bag Haifa

Houthi missile batteries have officially entered a kamikaze phase, mimicking the exact suicide tempo that the Iranian regime deploys against global shipping and sovereign cities on this side of the world. Illustrating the stakes, Saudi air defenses intercepted a...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

Sep 17, 2026, 6:51 AM

Seven Passports for a Journey That Never Happened

Walter Estever Gonzalez at approximately four or five years old in El Salvador. This surviving copy comes from a photograph taken for a passport intended for a family journey to Mexico that never took place. (Courtesy of the author)

There is a photograph of me from when I was four or five years old. I am wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt and looking directly at the camera with the seriousness children sometimes have when adults tell them not...

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