August 2, 2026 from Madrid
The Spanish Movement of Solidarity with Cuba (MESC) has denounced in a statement the blocking of containers and increased freight costs for donations destined for Cuba. (more…)
By Becca Renk Foster on August 3, 2026
Inauguration of Palestine Park in Managua, foto: Cesar Perez
Against the backdrop of Israel’s renewed attacks on Palestine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to hold public hearings in September on Nicaragua’s legal proceedings against Germany for aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza by providing weapons to Israel. During its arguments, Nicaragua will certainly avail itself of its experience taking the most powerful nation in the world to the International Court of Justice…and winning. (more…)
August 1, 2026.
The presidential decree brings an end to 24 years of resistance by the MST in the capital of São Paulo, paving the way for the official settlement.
The Brazilian government signs the expropriation of the Irmã Alberta Commune to ratify the right to the land in São Paulo. Photo: Brasil de fato.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the land expropriation decree that declares the land occupied by the Irmã Alberta Land Commune in São Paulo to be in the public interest. The government measure, made official through the Official Gazette of the Union, grants land title to advance the agrarian reform policy and resolve a dispute that has lasted for more than two decades. (more…)
August 1, 2026
Petro meeting with Colombian students studying medicine in Havana
Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived this Friday shortly after 7:00 p.m. (local time) at José Martí International Airport in Havana on his final official trip as president to meet with his counterpart Miguel Díaz-Canel and express his support for the island amidst the intensified U.S. blockade. In a previous post on X, he had stated that he chose the Caribbean nation as his final official destination because “Cuba under attack” is “vital for national sovereignty and the struggle for life in the Caribbean”. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on July 31, 2026
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales. Photo: AP
Morales, who is in hiding in Cochabamba, claims that the arrest warrant is an act of political persecution by the right-wing government of Rodrigo Paz. (more…)
By Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez on July 31, 2026
Foto: Abel Padrón Padilla/ Cubadebate.
Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing of the Seventh Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People’s Power in its 10th Legislature, at the Convention Center, on July 30, 2026, “Year of the Centennial of Year of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.” (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 30, 2026
Photo by Luis Castillo
On Sunday, along Paseo de la Reforma, the flags of Mexico and Cuba fluttered in unison in the same breeze. The procession covered 2.6 kilometers from the Hemiciclo a Juárez to the former U.S. Embassy in a march against the blockade and in defense of Cuban sovereignty. It might have seemed like a one-off protest. In reality, it was the resurgence of a political memory that has spanned the Gulf for two centuries. (more…)
July 29, 2026
Due to its importance, we are publishing the full text of the Declaration of the National Assembly of People’s Power, issued during the Seventh Ordinary Session of its Tenth Legislature: (more…)