By Luis Manuel Arce Issac on May 15, 2026 from Camagüey, Cuba
Trump’s visit to China highlighted Xi Jinping’s rise and the United States’ global decline in the economy, technology, and international leadership. If there is one high-level visit needed at this time of global tension, it is the one President Donald Trump has just made to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as it was intended—at least on the part of the Asian giant—to pour water on a powder keg that could ignite given that it is surrounded by fire on all sides. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on May 16, 2026 from Havana
Trump rejects a mediation proposal put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping to address the conflict with Iran. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on May 15, 2026
Historical vertigo. That is what I felt when the official White House account posted an image of Venezuela covered by the U.S. flag and labeled it the “51st State.” Not because I believed annexation was literally imminent, but because of what the image symbolized: a strange sensation of watching two centuries collapse into a meme. (more…)
By Laura V. Mar on May 14, 2026
Mining mobilization responds to a critical situation marked by fuel shortages and the shortage of explosive material. foto: EFE.
Miners in Bolivia joined together on May 13 to protests and road blockades against President Rodrigo Paz, demanding solutions to critical issues like fuel scarcity and legislative exclusion, as national dissent intensifies. (more…)
May 16, 2026
Aleida Guevara
Dr. Aleida Guevara stated that the majority of the Cuban people “know perfectly well who their enemy is” and remain faithful to the principles of the Revolution, amid threats of aggression from the United States. (more…)
By Randolph Borges on May 13, 2026
Francesca Albanese
The measures against Francesca Albanese constitute an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of expression
A federal court in Washington on Wednesday issued an injunction suspending sanctions imposed in 2025 by the Donald Trump administration against the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. (more…)
May 14, 2026
Photo: Ministry of Agriculture of Mexico
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, announced a government program that seeks to settle, in many cases, and significantly reduce, in others, the debts owed by small-scale farmers, small producers, and fishermen to the government. (more…)
May 14, 2026
March of the Cuban people in front of the U.S. Embassy in January 2026 Photo: Yaimi Ravelo
“The U.S. government made the aid offer public through a State Department statement,” said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reported today that for the first time, the U.S. government has publicly formalized—through a State Department statement—an offer of aid to Cuba valued at $100 million. (more…)