By Atilio Boron on February 21, 2026
Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference, Alex Brandon/AP
The Security Conference met recently, between February 13 and 15, at its usual venue in Munich, Bavaria. Outside of the United Nations General Assembly, the MSC is the most well-attended meeting in the world. The official report for this session states that it was attended by more than a thousand participants from some 115 countries, including 60 heads of state and government and more than 50 leaders of international organizations, as well as more than 100 think tanks. In addition to the main activities, the report mentions 270 parallel events held in conjunction with the Conference. (more…)
February 21, 2026
The Sea Horse
The Sea Horse ship carrying Russian fuel is heading to Cuba amid the island’s energy situation and defying US President Donald Trump’s sanctions to impose tariffs, Bloomberg reported. According to the media outlet and data from maritime intelligence firm Kpler Ltd, the ship could be carrying about 200,000 barrels of Russian diesel fuel. (more…)
By Terri Matson on February 17, 2026
President Sheinbaum speaking in the Zocalo, Nov 2025, Marco Ugarte/AP
Mexico is facing a familiar problem—one that has shaped its history for more than a century. How do you protect your sovereignty when you live next door to a superpower that sees your country less as an equal and more as a strategic asset? (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on February 21, 2026 from Havana
image: Al Mayadeen
During the rest of 2026, the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba will be at a point of maximum tension and strain, which will escalate depending on the critical factors that are developing today. (more…)
Responding to the escalating actions of the Trump Administration to try and heap more suffering on heroic Cuba the National Network on Cuba – NNOC has called on all its member organizations to initiate actions across the US from March 8 – March 15. Resumen Latinoamericano, a member organization of the NNOC, is joining this call for all of our subscribers to mobilize at this critical time. Trump and Rubio want to crush Cuba because it gives a glimpse of what a society, democratically governed around the needs of the people, looks like. To the criminals in the White House Cuba represents a disobedient nation that stands for peace, co operation and mutual respect between nations; not dominance and greed.
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By Alejandra Garcia on February 19, 2026
Cuban doctors performing an operation using the light of a cell phone.
In Cuba, U.S. sanctions are not just numbers in an economic report. They translate into long lines to access fuel, blackouts, hospitals without electricity, families in conditions of extreme vulnerability, families who travel kilometers (on foot, by bicycle, or on a cart) to obtain the most basic necessities. Sanctions turn people into victims (more…)
Members of the Va por Cuba collective and the José Martí Association of Cuban Residents in Mexico received tons of products yesterday in the capital’s Zócalo to send to the island. Photo Cristina Rodríguez (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez on February 17, 2026
foto: Ladyrene Perez, The front page of Granma on the release of the remaining member of the Cuban 5. December 17, 2014.
We know that Granma’s contribution to the Latin American communication experience cannot be understood as an anecdotal chapter in the history of regional journalism; rather, it is a historical laboratory where words are assumed to be a material force and truth is a disputed territory. Since its founding in 1965 as the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, Granma has operated in an area of tension where reporting is not only about transmitting data, but also actively participating in the symbolic configuration of reality. (more…)
