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…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on February 19, 2026
Nosotros Venceremos, we shall overcome. Illustration: Roger Harris
The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that it would face little immediate consequence. (more…)
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…)