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…)
February 14, 2026
On Friday, February 13, the FUP sent a letter to Petrobras’ Executive Board of Logistics, Marketing, and Markets, requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of sending emergency fuel to Cuba. (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…)
By Bill Hackwell on February 11, 2026 from Buenos Aires
foto: Pablo Cuarterolo, Buenos Aires Times
As the Argentine Senate debated a wholesale plan of labor reforms that would set back the gains of organized labor for years if passed, massive numbers of protestors gathered outside of the congress building in militant opposition. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on February 10, 2026 from Havana
image: Adán Iglesias Toledo.
Major media outlets such as The New York Times, Sputnik, and the BBC, among others, have exposed numerous details from financier Jeffrey Epstein’s documents, which link convicted US President Donald Trump to cases of sexual orgies and pedophilia. (more…)