May 14, 2026
John Tune, Republican Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate
A growing group of Republican senators is warning U.S. President Donald Trump not to open a new military front against Cuba amid the prolonged confrontation with Iran, arguing that U.S. forces are already overburdened and that the country faces growing economic and political tensions ahead of the midterm elections. (more…)
By José Ernesto Novaez on May 12, 206
Journalist Katherine Doyle, NBC News’ White House correspondent, reports that President Donald Trump has become “increasingly frustrated” by the fact that months of pressure from the United States have failed to destabilize the Cuban government, and has pressed his advisors to explain why efforts to bring the Cuban leadership to collapse have not succeeded. (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on May 12, 2026
Chavez and his emphasis on education.
I was recently in an assembly in the west of Caracas where communards were debating how to prioritize scarce resources. The discussion was not easy. People disagreed about whether to invest first in a water system, a productive initiative, or repairing a community space. Voices overlapped at times, arguments were made and remade, and decisions did not come quickly. From the outside, it might look like a routine and even tedious meeting. From within, it is very much something else: a collective effort to think through material life under pressure. (more…)
By Carlos Fernandez de Cossio on May 10, 2026
Without any evidence, the U.S. Secretary of State accuses the Cuban government of squandering resources and failing to address the needs he considers priorities. He seeks to justify the ongoing collective punishment against the entire Cuban people and the possibility of military aggression.
Regardless of each state’s prerogative to decide sovereignly how to allocate its resources, let’s look at the facts. (more…)
By Yuleidys Hernandez Toledo on May 11, 2026
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez at the Hague
This is acting Venezuelan response to the notion that Venezuela would become the 51st state of the US, “We will continue to defend [territorial] integrity, sovereignty, and independence. Our history, which is a history of glory, of men and women who gave their lives to make us not a colony but a free country.” (more…)
By David Bacon on May 7, 2026
Strawberry workers and supporters march through Santa Maria demanding a living wage and an end to ICE raids. foto: David Bacon
Juana’s words echoed in my mind as I pulled off Highway 101 onto Broadway, the street that bisects Santa Maria. She is a strawberry picker in a strawberry town. Santa Maria, Oxnard to the south and Salinas to the north, all valleys on California’s central coast, produce 80% of all the berries picked and sold in the U.S. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 11, 2026
foto: Bill Hackwell
Cuba denounced a historic escalation in U.S. sanctions, describing the latest measures as a direct assault on the Cuban people and their right to self-determination. The announcement comes amid a decades-long policy of hatred, sustained by the successive U.S. administrations, with Cuba framing the latest executive order signed by the U.S. president on May 1 as a continuation, and intensification, of a blockade that has sought to isolate and economically strangle the island nation for more than 70 years. (more…)
Introduction by Dr. José Ramón Cabañas, director of the Center for International Policy Research (CIPI) on May 8, 2026
Emilio Cueto Suarez, Foto: Ismael Francisco/ Cubadebate
Regular readers of materials produced by Cuba’s Center for International Policy Research (CIPI) will recall that issue 013 (New Era) of the journal Cuadernos de Nuestra América was dedicated to scientific exchange between Cuba and the United States. This volume is the only one to date that has been translated in its entirety into English. Given the success of that project, we at the center decided to prepare a similar one dedicated to cultural exchange between the two countries. We were in the process of reaching out to potential authors when the current U.S. administration took office, which has sought, among other impossible goals, to sever and disregard all ties between the two nations and peoples. (more…)