By Ivan Evair Saldaña on February 2, 2026 in Mexico City
fotos: Jay Watt
Dozens of protesters, convened by the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, gathered this Sunday in front of the former United States embassy in Mexico, on Paseo de la Reforma, to condemn President Donald Trump’s decree imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to the island and to demand that the government of Claudia Sheinbaum maintain crude oil shipments to Cuba. (more…)
By Jesús Orta Ruiz (El Indio Naborí) on January 31, 2026
foto: Bill Hackwell
Blue-eyed mother, mother of America:
my children are peaceful, they work, they sing, they dream,
they love under the green shade of their palm trees.
Robert, your young blond boy,
how happy he would be playing baseball with my cheerful Juan with his black hair!
However, the shady merchants who govern your people
want Robert to kill Juan under his own sky, on his own land. (more…)
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…)