By Reasons of Cuba Editorial Staff on January 27, 2026
image: Redacción Razones de Cuba
While Cuba faces a complex situation in its electrical power system, with blackouts affecting the daily lives of its population, an underlying cause stands out with undeniable starkness: the United States’ economic, commercial, and financial blockade and the persecution of fuel. This blockade, far from being an abstract policy, carries out a systematic campaign against the arrival of fuel to the island and denies access to vital parts and technologies, deliberately strangling a sector essential for national development and stability. (more…)
President Sheinbaum declared Mexico’s unwavering independence while delivering housing units in Reynosa, just miles from the U.S. border.
On January 25, 2026, President Sheinbaum declared Mexico’s unwavering independence while delivering housing units in Reynosa, just miles from the U.S. border. (more…)
By David Brooks on January 25, 2026
image: Mark Peterson
Last week, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said that what he fears most is “the moment when everything explodes.” I share his concern. If we follow the trajectory of events, it is quite clear that we are heading toward some kind of collapse. (more…)
Michael Parenti, foto: Bill Hackwell
January 25, 2026
Michael Parenti, the great Marxist scholar and unflinching intellectual has died at the age of 92. Parenti who wrote many books including The Face of Imperialism, God and his Demons, Democracy for a Few, The Assassination of Julius Cesar and to To Kill a Nation, took on US academia for relying on mainstream media sources in their analysis. Parenti was a supporter of many progressive causes including ending the blockade of Cuba. (more…)
By Sam Carliner on January 21, 2026
Argentine President Javier Milei closed out 2025 by quietly issuing a decree that centralizes the country’s vast intelligence apparatus and gives its intelligence agencies authority to apprehend individuals without prior judicial order.
Decree 941—issued on December 31, during legislative recess—reorganizes all intelligence agencies, including military intelligence, under the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE), which will report directly to the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The current General Secretariat of the Presidency is the president’s sister, Karina Milei. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on January 21, 2026
Jan. 16, Nicaraguan co-president Daniel Ortega denounces the “terrorist behavior” of the US in appropriating the resources of others, such as Venezuela’s oil.
Since the US invasion of Venezuela on January 3rd and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s opposition figures – who enthusiastically identified with their confederates in Venezuela – have hoped that regime-change efforts in Caracas would encourage Washington to destroy Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 20, 2026
MST conference in Salvador Bahia
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) is celebrating more than four decades of struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform, consolidating itself as one of the largest and most influential social movements in the world. With nearly two million members and a trajectory marked by resistance, the MST reaches its 42nd anniversary reaffirming its historic project of social justice, popular sovereignty, and structural transformation of the Brazilian countryside. (more…)
January 20, 2026
Mortal remains of the Cuban combatants, Jan. 2026. X/ @EmbRusCuba
They demonstrated moral superiority and courage in defending the sovereignty of the Bolivarian nation. (more…)