By Jose Luis Granados on May 9, 2026
For all their bluster about the dangers from “narcoterrorist” organizations, we need to be clear: the US doesn’t give a shit about drug trafficking, especially the Donald Trump administration. If they did, the US president wouldn’t have pardoned and released former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a narco trafficker convicted in New York who, according to leaked audios, is returning the favor by conspiring against leftist governments in the region. (more…)
By Norland Rosendo González on May 8, 2026
Illustration by Osval
The United States government has reinforced its lines of fire against the Cuban people, even without firing a shot, following the signing of the May 1st executive order that intensifies the collective punishment. (more…)
May 9, 2026
Haitian workers demonstrating for a change in government. foto: EFE
Increasing protests in Haiti have laid bare the deep discontent of the population with the unelected government of Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, backed by the US regime. (more…)
By Richard Stone on May 5, 2026
A U.S. blockade of oil deliveries to Cuba has contributed to power blackouts that have plunged the island nation’s communities into darkness. Angelo Mastrascusa/Anadolu via Getty Images
Cuban scientists are known for ingenuity in the face of adversity. Over the years, as U.S. sanctions coupled with government mismanagement worsened the island’s economic woes, Kalet León Monzón and his colleagues at the Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) in Havana continued to develop and produce monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins, resorting to clever workarounds such as retrofitting old instrumentation and what he calls “nontraditional ways” of importing reagents. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on May 7, 2026
Artisanal fishers collective, La Guaira, Venezuela. foto: Roger Harris
A US military strike on May 4 killed two mariners in an alleged “narco boat” campaign which now has a cumulative death toll of at least 188. The pace of extrajudicial executions is ramping up, according to The Guardian. But why? (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 7, 2026, from Havana
foto: AFP
May 1, 2026, will go down as a day of immense political significance for Cuba. While more than 5 million people took to the streets across the country, with over 600,000 Havana residents gathering in front of the U.S. Embassy on the Malecón, the White House responded with a new executive order against the island. It was a signal. Cuba filled the streets to affirm its will to defend itself; Washington responded by tightening the noose. (more…)
By Luis Matos Hernández on May 5, 2026 from Havana
foto: Luis Matos’s Facebook
Yes, I was “FORCED” to the May Day parade, just like every year. Here are a few of the reasons: (more…)
By Atilio Baron May 5, 2026 from Buenos Aires
The US Embassy in Havana. foto: Efe
Trump and his mediocre team of advisors never learn. The United States got bogged down in the Vietnam War and suffered a humiliating defeat. It then did the same in Iraq and Afghanistan, with identical results. The chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces stationed in Kabul is one of the most embarrassing chapters in U.S. military history. Now it is attacking Iran, indiscriminately bombing military and civilian targets, and threatening to send that country back to the “Stone Age.” But Tehran’s retaliation was devastating: it destroyed nearly all military installations in the Gulf petro-monarchies and closed the Strait of Hormuz, causing a sharp rise in oil prices and putting the global economy in check. (more…)