By Laidi Fernandez de Juan
Amid this chaotic situation we’re living through—where survival is paramount, and resilience, resourcefulness, and a resigned acceptance of the inevitable prevail—we’re gradually acquiring qualities we never imagined. Those who push us to the limit, impose cruel restrictions on us, and force us into a permanent state of vigilance that wears down our central nervous system—that is, our entire body—failed to calculate the intrinsic nature of the Cuban people: the stubborn strength to invent, to stay afloat, to transform mechanisms and things that were previously unimaginable. This kind of resilience isn’t found in any manual. It’s something we’ve gradually acquired over many years of deprivation and the resulting workarounds. (more…)
August 4, 2026
Keiko Fujimori
Peru is experiencing its worst security crisis since the internal armed conflict that took place between 1980 and 2000, with figures reflecting an alarming deterioration: homicides rose from 1,000 in 2018 to 2,600 in 2025, while reports of extortion—one of the crimes that most affects the population—skyrocketed from 3,200 to 26,500 during the same period. (more…)
By Lil María Pichs Hernández
image: Acelo Ruiz Villanueva/ Threads
Since 1959, when Cuba’s foreign policy took a 180-degree turn, like everything else in the country, its foreign relations were consolidated as a clear expression of the Cuban revolutionary paradigm; and no relationship seemed to be more affected than that maintained until then by the successive governments of the Cuban republic, mediated by what for years had been its true capital: Washington. (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…)
By Carlos Aznárez July 28, 2026
The Struggle Continues
Uncompromising and bold when it came to making decisions, especially those concerning the interests of his beloved Venezuela. Passionate and enthusiastic in his defense of the most disadvantaged, to whom he dedicated each and every day of his term in office. A champion of unity to strike together against the Empire—a commitment he demonstrated not only in domestic politics but also in the doctrine he established throughout Latin America and the world. Thoughtful and down-to-earth when it came to opening the doors to debate—even with his fiercest enemies—and when formulating ideas that would bridge positions that were poles apart. We are speaking of Hugo Chávez, whom we miss so dearly on what would have been his 72nd birthday. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on July 289, 2026 from Havana
illustration: Adano
Obsessed with seizing political and economic control over all of Latin America, U.S. President Donald Trump is meddling in Brazil’s presidential campaign, which will take place on October 4 and feature Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (seeking reelection) and far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro as the main contenders. (more…)
By Dana Frank on July 29, 2026
Drug runner Juan Hernandez released from prison by Trump.
Juan Orlando Hernandez came home with a skip in his step after receiving a pardon despite moving 400 tons of cocaine (more…)