May 18, 2026, by La Jornada editorial in Mexico City
US brigadistas in Cuba. foto: Bill Hackwell
The Axios website published a report yesterday allegedly based on “classified intelligence” claiming that the Cuban government had purchased more than 300 drones from Russia and Iran to attack the military enclave that the United States illegally maintains on Cuban territory in Guantánamo, as well as alleged U.S. naval targets and even locations in Florida. This hoax is presented against the backdrop of Washington’s baseless accusations that the island poses a “threat” to the superpower. (more…)
May 18, 2026 from Havana
Network in Defense of Humanity
Statement by the Cuban Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity
Imperialism coldly calculates its timing. Every step is part of its historical obsession with seizing control of Cuba. (more…)
By Gary Wilson on May 17, 2026
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel with Raúl Castro, one of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution. fotos; Bill Hackwell
The Justice Department is moving to indict 94-year-old Raúl Castro, one of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, over Cuba’s 1996 shootdown of two planes flown by Brothers to the Rescue — not a humanitarian group, but one arm of a U.S.-created anti-Cuba terrorist network rooted in the CIA’s war against the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Luis Manuel Arce Issac on May 15, 2026 from Camagüey, Cuba
Trump’s visit to China highlighted Xi Jinping’s rise and the United States’ global decline in the economy, technology, and international leadership. If there is one high-level visit needed at this time of global tension, it is the one President Donald Trump has just made to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as it was intended—at least on the part of the Asian giant—to pour water on a powder keg that could ignite given that it is surrounded by fire on all sides. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on May 16, 2026 from Havana
Trump rejects a mediation proposal put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping to address the conflict with Iran. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on May 15, 2026
Historical vertigo. That is what I felt when the official White House account posted an image of Venezuela covered by the U.S. flag and labeled it the “51st State.” Not because I believed annexation was literally imminent, but because of what the image symbolized: a strange sensation of watching two centuries collapse into a meme. (more…)
By Randolph Borges on May 13, 2026
Francesca Albanese
The measures against Francesca Albanese constitute an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of expression
A federal court in Washington on Wednesday issued an injunction suspending sanctions imposed in 2025 by the Donald Trump administration against the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. (more…)
May 14, 2026
March of the Cuban people in front of the U.S. Embassy in January 2026 Photo: Yaimi Ravelo
“The U.S. government made the aid offer public through a State Department statement,” said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reported today that for the first time, the U.S. government has publicly formalized—through a State Department statement—an offer of aid to Cuba valued at $100 million. (more…)