By Ignacio Ramonet on February 5, 2026
President Maduro in an interview with Ramonet. Photo: Venezuelan Presidential Press
It was a month ago. On the night of January 2-3, 2026. It was a few minutes before two in the morning on that sinister Saturday… We were shocked by the brutality of the attack in the full light of the full moon. The violence of the successive explosions. The columns of dark smoke. The intensity of the flames lighting up here and there a Caracas that was shocked, sleepless, and silent. And then, like a punch in the gut, the news of the kidnapping… (more…)
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…)
foto: Bill Hackwell
By Geraldina Colotti on February 4, 2026
Donald Trump’s recent decree against Cuba, which defines the island as an “unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy,” is not extemporaneous insanity or a simple electoral calculation. It is the reaffirmation of an imperial genetic code that knows no party alternation. Using the same legal formula adopted by Barack Obama in 2015 against Bolivarian Venezuela, Washington confirms that its strategy of aggression does not depend on the tenant of the White House, but on the permanent interests of the so-called Deep State. (more…)
By Jen Moore and Karen Spring on Feb. 1, 2026
Honduran president-elect Nasry “Tito” Asfura meets with U.S. Sec. of State Marco Rubio, Getty
By Raúl Antonio Capote on February 2, 2026
Washington’s strategy to recolonize America
The question seems easy to answer, and it is. However, the power of the mainstream media and the US propaganda machine does its job non stop: twisting the arm of truth until it achieves the paradox of turning victims into culprits. (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…)