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Letter from a Cuban Mother to an American Mother

By Jesús Orta Ruiz (El Indio Naborí) on January 31, 2026

foto: Bill Hackwell

Blue-eyed mother, mother of America:

my children are peaceful, they work, they sing, they dream,

they love under the green shade of their palm trees.

Robert, your young blond boy,

how happy he would be playing baseball with my cheerful Juan with his black hair!

However, the shady merchants who govern your people

want Robert to kill Juan under his own sky, on his own land. (more…)

Cubans Denounce the Presence of the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires after Interventionist Action

By Ed Newman on February 1, 2026

Mike Hammer, foto: Razones de Cuba

“Murderer, terrorist, Down with the blockade”: Women in Camagüey denounce US Chargé d’Affaires Mike Hammer. (more…)

Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.

By Jean Guerrero, on January 30, 2026

image: Kimberly Elliott

This week, Honduras inaugurated a new president, Nasry Asfura, a construction magnate backed by seemingly strange bedfellows: members of the notorious MS-13 gang and President Trump. Mr. Trump had urged Hondurans to vote for Mr. Asfura days before MS-13 gang members posing as election observers threatened to kill anyone who didn’t vote for that candidate. Amid weeks of election uncertainty and protests, Mr. Trump warned Hondurans of “hell to pay” if they chose a different outcome. Mr. Asfura’s victory marks the success of Mr. Trump’s campaign to resuscitate a political party tainted by its widely known ties to cartels. (more…)

Cuba’s Sovereign Example Is a Threat to Washington

By Hedelberto López Blanch on January 30, 2026

Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel

The example of sovereignty that the Cuban people and government have given to the world is the greatest threat to the decadent but criminal US empire, now led by the fascist and convicted President Donald Trump. (more…)

Right-Wing Nasry Asfura Takes Office as President of Honduras

January 28, 2026

Conservative Nasry Asfura, an ally of Donald Trump, took office as president of Honduras on Tuesday with a promise to “tackle head-on” insecurity in the most violent and impoverished country in Central America. (more…)

Monkey With a Knife

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 29, 2026

Havana, foto: Bill Hackwell

When a government turns a tool into an automatic response to any problem, it stops using an instrument and starts practicing a reflex. That is exactly what is happening with the United States’ sanctions policy, and the Cuban case once again demonstrates this starkly. (more…)

In the Footsteps of Martí in Caracas

By Alejandra Garcia on July 28, 2026

Jose Marti, Plaza of the Revolution, foto: Bill Hackwell

The Venezuelan capital still bears the scars of the January 3rd bombing, when a U.S. military attack left more than a hundred people dead, including 32 Cubans. Yet the people have covered the wounds, and nearly a month after such upheaval, the city is beginning to recover its rhythm and vitality. Amid the whirl of Caracas’s historic center—between the bustle of daily life and the constant coming and going along the narrow streets near Plaza Bolivar, one familiar name resonates: José Martí. (more…)

With Their Torches Held High, Cuban Youth March Again for Martí and Fidel

Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel lead the March of the Torches, foto: Dunia Alvarez Palacios

By Frank Martínez Rivero, Abel Padrón Padilla and Enrique González Díaz (Enro) on January 28, 2026

This powerful yearly tradition of Cuban youth carrying torches down the steps of the University of Havana the night before the birthday of Jose Marti was even more unified and determined this year as an answer to the escalating fascist rhetoric coming out of the White House against their homeland. -edit

Once again, Cuban youth raised their torches to pay tribute to the most universal of Cubans, José Martí, on the 173rd anniversary of his birth. This time, the march was charged with greater symbolism, driven by the motivation to salute the centenary of the birth of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, who, together with that same generation of young people, made the dreams of the Apostle come true. (more…)

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