Por Bill Hackwell, 7 de enero de 2026, desde Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba
Gerardo Hernández se reúne con los CDR en Arroyo Naranjo, fotos de Bill Hackwell
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, coordinador nacional de los Comités de Defensa de la Revolución (CDR) de Cuba, tiene una amplia oficina en el último piso de la sede de la organización, en la concurrida Avenida Línea de La Habana. El problema es que nunca lo encontrarán allí. Hernández, uno de los Cinco Héroes Cubanos que pasó 16 años en prisiones federales de Estados Unidos por monitorear las actividades de terroristas anticubanos que operan con impunidad en el sur de Florida, está recuperando el tiempo perdido recorriendo Cuba, escuchando las necesidades y los problemas de la gente a nivel comunitario, mientras aplica métodos locales para resolverlos. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on January 7, 2026 from Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba
Gerardo Hernandez meeting with the CDR in Arroyo Naranjo, fotos Bill Hackwell
Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, the national coordinator of Cuba’s Committees for the Defense of Revolution (CDR) has a large office on the top floor of the organization’s headquarters on the busy Linea Avenue in Havana. The problem is you will never find him there. Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five heroes who spent 16 years in US Federal prisons for monitoring the activities of anti Cuban terrorists operating with impunity in Southern Florida, is making up for lost time circulating around Cuba listening to the needs and problems of the people on the community level while engaging in home grown methods of solving them. (more…)
January 8, 2026
Diosdado Cabello
The Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, confirmed this Wednesday during his program “Con el Mazo Dando” that at least 100 people, mostly young people, were killed during the US military aggression against Venezuela, which culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on January 7, 2026 from Havana
On January 3 Latin America awoke shaken by one of the most serious and dramatic episodes in international relations in recent decades. The bombing of military facilities and residential neighborhoods in Caracas and three other states of the country by the United States, followed by the kidnapping—rather than the “extraction,” as the corporate media presents it—of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife, Cilia Flores, marks a breaking point in an already weakened regional system. For broad political, social, and religious sectors of the region, the operation represents a flagrant violation of a state’s sovereignty and a definitive blow to what for years had been called the “rules-based world order.” (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on January 7, 2026
“Follow our Tags” graphic: Adano
The mythomaniac Marco Rubio, in his role as head of the State Department, is launching a strong media offensive to try to distort the treacherous kidnapping of Venezuelan constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros and make the public believe that what happened was the capture or apprehension of a “drug trafficker.” (more…)
By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron on January 7, 2026
Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez speaks during a council of ministers meeting at the Vice President Headquarters
Elite Delta Force troops descended from the helicopters to the location where President Nicolás Maduro was spending the night. They faced resistance from soldiers on the ground, but overwhelming firepower from the air killed many Venezuelan and Cuban soldiers (24 Venezuelans, according to the Venezuelan Army, and 32 Cubans, according to Havana). Once ground resistance was neutralised, the Delta Force seized President Maduro and Venezuela National Assembly member, Cilia Flores, Maduro’s wife. (more…)
January 6, 2026
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, made his first statements before a New York court after his kidnapping on January 3 by specialized U.S. military commandos in a military operation carried out on Venezuelan territory. The president declared himself a “prisoner of war” and categorically rejected the charges against him, reaffirming his status as the legitimate head of state of the Bolivarian Republic. (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos on January 6, 2026
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as interim president on January 5. Photo: Con El Mazo Dando
In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution. (more…)