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…)
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…)