February 16, 2026 from Havana
The land unites us, dignity guides us, and solidarity strengthens us.
“Year of the Centenary of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz” – To all sister and solidarity organizations around the world
The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) of Cuba denounces before the world the criminal and new escalation of aggression by Yankee imperialism against our people. The extreme application of Executive Order 14380, which imposes sanctions on any country that sends oil to Cuba, is an act of economic warfare aimed at paralyzing our nation, suffocating our industry and agriculture, and causing suffering among Cuban families. This is not an isolated measure, but the latest link in the genocidal policy of the blockade, which has now lasted more than six decades. (more…)
February 16, 2026
Cuban medical professionals provide healthcare to patients at a medical center in Guatemala. Photo: Cubadebate.
The Guatemalan government announced the termination of the medical collaboration agreement with Cuba under which Cuban health professionals worked in remote and impoverished areas of the country since 1998. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on February 16, 2026
“together we create for Cuba” all fotos: Bill Hackwell
A few days ago, the Cuban government informed airlines operating in the country that the supply of aviation fuel would be suspended as of midnight on Tuesday, February 10. Obediently, the empire’s powerful propaganda machine got to work and began to spread misinformation in a coordinated manner, attributing the situation to the “energy crisis” in Cuba. Its exponents in various countries—from El País in Spain to La Nación and Clarín in Argentina and El Mercurio in Chile, to mention only the best known—bombarded their readers, viewers, or whoever else was the victim of their information attack with a single message: Cuba’s energy crisis is the predictable and inevitable result of bad government, yet another example of the “failure” of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Pedro Prada on February 15, 2026
foto: Ismael Francisco
The US president, his officials, his congressional supporters, and his political and communications operatives in Miami insist with risky emphasis on the existence of negotiations with the Cuban government, with its representatives, with a sector of them, and even with a traitor in their ranks, who has allegedly accepted the supposedly irresistible pressures, the intensified blockade, global blackmail against oil exporters, and offers of salvation from northern negotiators. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on February 13, 2026
“Benito sang “El Apagón” (The Blackout) and climbed one of the light poles, to remember Hurricane Maria and the crime of privatization of electricity.
Boricua phenomenon Conejo Malo – Bad Bunny in English – made history with the first Super Bowl halftime show almost completely in Spanish. Last Sunday, millions of viewers around the world were able to witness a unique event on their television screens: Bad Bunny’s participation in the halftime show of the Super Bowl, the biggest event of U.S. American football. (more…)
February 14, 2026
On Friday, February 13, the FUP sent a letter to Petrobras’ Executive Board of Logistics, Marketing, and Markets, requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of sending emergency fuel to Cuba. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on February 14, 2026
Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and political volatility.” What the LA Times fails to add is that it was precisely Dogu’s job to create crisis and volatility in both countries. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 13, 2026 from Havana
Fidel, foto: Roberto Chile
Option Zero was the revolutionary government’s contingency plan for the moment of total blockade from abroad and, therefore, the absolute lack of oil in the country. (more…)