By Laura Esquivel and Carlos Pellicer López on March 10, 2026 from Mexico City
foto: Bill Hackwell
In these difficult times for Latin American sovereignty, the criminal siege of the island of Cuba pains us Mexicans especially. Those of us who subscribe to this call to support its people believe that it would be an outrage not to do so, at a time when the United States government is attempting to subdue it through hunger and deprivation, by intensifying the economic and military blockade it imposed on the island in the wake of the triumph of its revolution and in the face of its social, scientific, artistic, cultural, educational, sporting, and health successes, as well as its moving international solidarity. (more…)
March 8, 2026
foto: AFP
“An attack on the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, an attack on the aspirations for regional integration, and a manifestation of the willingness to subordinate oneself to the interests of the powerful neighbor to the north under the precepts of the Monroe Doctrine.” The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, denounced on his X account the Shield of the Americas summit, which is being held under the auspices of the US president. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on March 7, 2026
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) reported on Friday that the Jamaican government will terminate its cooperation agreement with Cuba in the area of health, yielding to pressure from the United States. (more…)
By Pilar Trova Fernandez on March 6, 2026
President Naboa meets with Marco Rubio in the White House, September 2025
The situation in Ecuador under Daniel Noboa’s government is one of authoritarianism advancing on several fronts simultaneously to consolidate neoliberalism and total submission to the US international agenda. These are not isolated measures, but rather a coordinated strategy that combines job insecurity, the dismantling of the welfare state, unrestricted access to mining, the continuation of oil exploitation without environmental considerations, the centralization of power through the financial suffocation of local governments, and the systematic criminalization of all forms of opposition and popular organization. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on March 6, 2026
The US military acts as the world’s policeman, with its own laws. Photo EFE
I am fed up with listening to opinion makers, supposed analysts, and so-called “journalists” from the hegemonic media and their outlets on social media, and even ordinary people of good faith who, in their naivety, are vilely deceived by those who peddle the fairy tale of the United States as the land of freedom, democracy, and human rights. (more…)
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Thursday to sign the Book of Condolences opened in honor of the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei. (more…)
March 4, 2026.
The government of Ecuador declared Cuban ambassador Basilio Antonio Gutiérrez García persona non grata, along with all diplomatic personnel from that mission, giving them 48 hours to leave the country. (more…)
March 1, 2026
Part of the Cuban medical brigade in Honduras, Photo: @Embacubahondura
The Cuban ambassador to Honduras, Juan Loforte, on Friday deplored a smear campaign in the corporate media and by officials against the Cuban medical brigade, attributing it to the “unhealthy discourse from the United States.” This week, the far-right government of Nasry Asfura announced the cancellation of the medical cooperation agreement with Cuba. (more…)