By John Perry on February 4, 2026
The International Monetary Fund’s new assessment of Nicaragua’s economy labels it as “strong” no fewer than 56 times. But it also shows how key factors in the country’s growing prosperity – export earnings, trade relations and remittances (money sent by Nicaraguans living abroad) are vulnerable to US attacks. The IMF points out that US sanctions – more appropriately known as unilateral coercive measures – have severely restricted the help the country gets from multilateral bodies like the World Bank. (more…)
February 2, 2026, Havana
The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) expressed its strongest rejection of the executive order signed by US President Donald Trump against Cuba in a statement confirming the commitment of the peasantry to the Revolution and the defense of national sovereignty. (more…)
By Marxlenin Perez Valdes on February 2, 2026
foto: Bill Hackwell
There is something that U.S. leaders have historically failed to understand about Cubans, and that is that since the 19th century, our people have been fighting relentlessly to first obtain and then defend its freedom, sovereignty, and independence. (more…)
By Ivan Evair Saldaña on February 2, 2026 in Mexico City
fotos: Jay Watt
Dozens of protesters, convened by the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, gathered this Sunday in front of the former United States embassy in Mexico, on Paseo de la Reforma, to condemn President Donald Trump’s decree imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to the island and to demand that the government of Claudia Sheinbaum maintain crude oil shipments to Cuba. (more…)
By Ed Newman on February 1, 2026
Mike Hammer, foto: Razones de Cuba
“Murderer, terrorist, Down with the blockade”: Women in Camagüey denounce US Chargé d’Affaires Mike Hammer. (more…)
By Sharon Black on January 29, 2026
Jose Marti in the Plaza of the Revolution, fotos: Bill Hackwell
José Julián Martí Pérez (Jan. 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) is often sanitized in bourgeois histories as a gentle poet or a generic patriot. To understand Martí, however, is to recognize him as a revolutionary internationalist whose life’s work was the forging of a unified, anti-racist, and sovereign Cuban nation. His legacy is not a museum piece but a living tradition rooted in anti-colonial struggle across the Americas. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on January 30, 2026
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel
The example of sovereignty that the Cuban people and government have given to the world is the greatest threat to the decadent but criminal US empire, now led by the fascist and convicted President Donald Trump. (more…)
January 28, 2026
Conservative Nasry Asfura, an ally of Donald Trump, took office as president of Honduras on Tuesday with a promise to “tackle head-on” insecurity in the most violent and impoverished country in Central America. (more…)