By Carlos Fazio on February 16, 2026
US Sec. of State Marco Rubio signs the guest book at the Slovak Presidential Palace in Slovakia, on Feb. 15, 2026. Photo: AFP
In his 2028 presidential campaign, Secretary of State and White House National Security Advisor Marco Rubio is pursuing his own agenda. A product of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia that has historically profited from the counterrevolution industry in South Florida, Rubio operates a parallel diplomacy that responds to the interests of militant anti-Castroism and colonizing-genocidal Zionism. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on February 16, 2026
“together we create for Cuba” all fotos: Bill Hackwell
A few days ago, the Cuban government informed airlines operating in the country that the supply of aviation fuel would be suspended as of midnight on Tuesday, February 10. Obediently, the empire’s powerful propaganda machine got to work and began to spread misinformation in a coordinated manner, attributing the situation to the “energy crisis” in Cuba. Its exponents in various countries—from El País in Spain to La Nación and Clarín in Argentina and El Mercurio in Chile, to mention only the best known—bombarded their readers, viewers, or whoever else was the victim of their information attack with a single message: Cuba’s energy crisis is the predictable and inevitable result of bad government, yet another example of the “failure” of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Pedro Prada on February 15, 2026
foto: Ismael Francisco
The US president, his officials, his congressional supporters, and his political and communications operatives in Miami insist with risky emphasis on the existence of negotiations with the Cuban government, with its representatives, with a sector of them, and even with a traitor in their ranks, who has allegedly accepted the supposedly irresistible pressures, the intensified blockade, global blackmail against oil exporters, and offers of salvation from northern negotiators. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on February 13, 2026
“Benito sang “El Apagón” (The Blackout) and climbed one of the light poles, to remember Hurricane Maria and the crime of privatization of electricity.
Boricua phenomenon Conejo Malo – Bad Bunny in English – made history with the first Super Bowl halftime show almost completely in Spanish. Last Sunday, millions of viewers around the world were able to witness a unique event on their television screens: Bad Bunny’s participation in the halftime show of the Super Bowl, the biggest event of U.S. American football. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on February 14, 2026
Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and political volatility.” What the LA Times fails to add is that it was precisely Dogu’s job to create crisis and volatility in both countries. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 13, 2026 from Havana
Fidel, foto: Roberto Chile
Option Zero was the revolutionary government’s contingency plan for the moment of total blockade from abroad and, therefore, the absolute lack of oil in the country. (more…)
February 12, 2026.
Three US warships anchored off Port-au-Prince marked the end of the last vestige of government autonomy in Haiti. On February 7, after weeks of diplomatic pressure and direct threats, the Presidential Transition Council (CPT) dissolved as demanded by Washington, consolidating the absolute power of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a controversial businessman who has never been elected. (more…)
By Alejandro Garcia on February 11, 2026 from Caracas
El Mantilla
There is a figure in Cuba’s history who was crucial to Venezuelan education, even if his name does not always appear in the great school pantheons. His books educated thousands of Latin American children and young people, and his legacy is almost comparable to that of the greatest thinkers of the XIX century. While Bolivar gave his sword for the liberation of the Patria Grande, and Martí gave his thought, Luis Felipe Mantilla contributed grammar. His work built a silent bridge between the two countries. (more…)