By Atilio A. Boron on April 8, 2026
foto: AFP
As I put the finishing touches on these lines, we can now say with certainty that the threats made by the most sinister and powerful head of state of our time, Donald Trump, have been postponed for a period of fifteen days. The world breathes a sigh of relief upon learning that the order to wipe out one of history’s most brilliant civilizations, the Persian one—which Trump claimed would be returned to “the Stone Age”—has been postponed for two weeks. We will see how that stands. It is difficult to find in history a head of state who has expressed such a categorical destructive intent against a country that, according to UNESCO, has 29 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List—the result of a three-millennia-old history captured in beautiful architectural works, Persian gardens, and numerous archaeological sites. But nothing surprises us about Trump, who has made crude insults, verbal aggression, and racist contempt for his opponents the hallmark of his politics. (more…)
By José Manuel Lapeira Casas on April 7, 2026
foto: Luis Jiménez Echevarría
Cuba’s firm rejection of the intensified blockade imposed by the U.S. government against the island was evident on Tuesday in the voices of hundreds of women who gathered in Havana’s Mariana Grajales Park to condemn this hostile policy that limits the Cuban people’s development and exercise of their basic rights. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on April 6, 2026
The Belgin Sultan floating power plant in Havana
Turkey is providing support to Cuba, where millions of people remain in the dark due to the tightening of U.S. embargoes and the collapse of its energy infrastructure. The ship, sent by Karpowership (part of Karadeniz Holding), has already begun generating electricity in Havana. (more…)
By Luis Hernández Navarro on April 7, 2026
Rosa Miriam Elizalde, foto: Bill Hackwell
The blockade in Cuba — explains journalist and researcher Rosa Miriam Elizalde — is not only economic and commercial, but also technological and communicative. The island faces a brutal and unequal information war that is part of the regime change attempts promoted from Washington, Miami, and Madrid. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 6, 2026 from Caracas
aspiring young astronauts
In recent weeks, the United States has celebrated one of the most ambitious milestones in its space program in decades: the launching of the Artemis II mission, marking the return of crewed flights beyond Earth’s orbit. The project, led by NASA, aims to lay the foundations for a sustained human presence on the Moon and eventually open the door to missions to Mars. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on April 6, 2026
image: Adán Iglesias Toledo.
The illegal, devastating, and bloody U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran has also brought serious consequences upon the aggressors because they did not foresee that they would face powerful resistance very different from their previous aggressions in the Middle East against countries such as Libya, Syria, or Iraq. (more…)
By Diana Block on April 6, 2026
Cuba is not alone!
I met Adrián Heredia, the Second Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. at the Cuba Under Siege conference on March 14th in New York City. Adrián had recently assumed his role at the Cuban Embassy in January 2026, shortly before Trump issued his libelous Executive Order of January 29th which labeled Cuba a national security threat and instituted a total blockade on oil to Cuba. Since then, Adrián and his colleagues at the Embassy have been working continuously to break through the mountain of lies propagated by the edict. (more…)
By Rosa María Fernández on March 31, 2026
I almost met Perfecto Romero once in May 2011. Alicia Jrapko and I were speaking at the office of Palante, the weekly cartoon and humor magazine in Havana and the unassuming photographer of the Cuban Revolution was there in attendance. We were there because during one of our visits with Gerardo Hernandez, in Victorville Federal Penitentiary he asked us to open up a connection with Palante where he had been a regular contributor before his arrest. Gerardo, one of the Cuban 5, was serving 2 life sentences and 15 years for monitoring the activities of anti Cuban terrorists operating with impunity in Miami. Most now know Gerardo as the National Coordinator of the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), but during the struggle to Free the 5 Gerardo’s clever and poignant political cartoons where of great value in our work. He was able to mail his work to us and we digitalized them and emailed them to Palante to print. (more…)