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JOH Returns to Honduras

By John Perry on August 15, 2026

former Honduran President and convicted drug dealer Juan Orlando Hernández.

In mid-July, Donald Trump railed on primetime TV against alleged foreign interference in US presidential elections. While commentators were sceptical, they largely ignored the long history of US meddling in other countries’ elections. In Honduras, only six months earlier, Trump’s endorsed candidate won a slim majority in an election that he had turned into a regime-change operation. (more…)

The Hatuey Project of the United States Reaffirms its Solidarity with Cuba

medical donations brought by the Hatuey Project

The Hatuey Project, a group based in the United States, reaffirmed its commitment to solidarity with Cuba today, delivering donations to three hospitals on the Caribbean island affected by the government’s policy of strangulation.

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The Specific Case of Marcoism

By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on August 13, 2026

Marcoism

References to McCarthyism or Reaganomics marked eras of political or economic thought in the United States, reflecting the agenda of the ruling (or dominant) groups, even though the figures who took historical credit by lending their names to these movements did not exactly possess the intellectual caliber that would have made them worthy of such recognition. (more…)

Fidel Castro: The Decisions That Shaped a Revolutionary

By Alejandra Garcia on August 13, 2026

foto: Bill Hackwell

Being a revolutionary is an identity built through the decisions a person makes, the positions they take, and the paths they choose to follow. In Fidel Castro’s case, that identity began to take shape from his earliest years. (more…)

The Art of Manufacturing a Threat: How Washington Builds the Pretext for Its War against Cuba

By Ángel González on August 5, 2026

Marco Rubio, flanked by advisors, oversees from a US intelligence center the digital fabrication of pretexts using AI to justify an aggressive escalation against Cuba.

The United States government, under the Trump administration and with Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, has deployed a sophisticated propaganda operation to construct a pretext justifying an aggressive escalation against Cuba. Behind this scheme are Mauricio Claver-Carone and Jeremy Lewin, the principal architects of a strategy that seeks to introduce the narrative of a “Cuban threat” into public opinion to pave the way for an intervention with the least possible political cost. (more…)

The War on Drugs Has Always Been More about War Than Drugs

By Carlos Ron on August 4, 2026

foto: Southcom

Sovereignty is the only unforgivable crime. The pardon of Washington’s ally Juan Orlando Hernández amid an uptick in the US war on drugs signals that trafficking is forgivable, even pardonable, in an ally. (more…)

Unions in North Dakota Condemn U.S. Hostility Toward Cuba

August 6, 2026

organize, mobilize, solidarity

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in North Dakota passed a resolution rejecting the U.S. government’s unilateral coercive measures against Cuba. (more…)

What They Didn’t Anticipate: Our Animalization

By Laidi Fernandez de Juan on October 6, 2026

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…)

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