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…)
By Sharon Black on January 29, 2026
Jose Marti in the Plaza of the Revolution, fotos: Bill Hackwell
José Julián Martí Pérez (Jan. 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) is often sanitized in bourgeois histories as a gentle poet or a generic patriot. To understand Martí, however, is to recognize him as a revolutionary internationalist whose life’s work was the forging of a unified, anti-racist, and sovereign Cuban nation. His legacy is not a museum piece but a living tradition rooted in anti-colonial struggle across the Americas. (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)