By Alejandra Garcia on February 19, 2026
Cuban doctors performing an operation using the light of a cell phone.
In Cuba, U.S. sanctions are not just numbers in an economic report. They translate into long lines to access fuel, blackouts, hospitals without electricity, families in conditions of extreme vulnerability, families who travel kilometers (on foot, by bicycle, or on a cart) to obtain the most basic necessities. Sanctions turn people into victims (more…)
Members of the Va por Cuba collective and the José Martí Association of Cuban Residents in Mexico received tons of products yesterday in the capital’s Zócalo to send to the island. Photo Cristina Rodríguez (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez on February 17, 2026
foto: Ladyrene Perez, The front page of Granma on the release of the remaining member of the Cuban 5. December 17, 2014.
We know that Granma’s contribution to the Latin American communication experience cannot be understood as an anecdotal chapter in the history of regional journalism; rather, it is a historical laboratory where words are assumed to be a material force and truth is a disputed territory. Since its founding in 1965 as the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, Granma has operated in an area of tension where reporting is not only about transmitting data, but also actively participating in the symbolic configuration of reality. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on February 19, 2026
Nosotros Venceremos, we shall overcome. Illustration: Roger Harris
The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that it would face little immediate consequence. (more…)
By Carlos Fazio on February 16, 2026
US Sec. of State Marco Rubio signs the guest book at the Slovak Presidential Palace in Slovakia, on Feb. 15, 2026. Photo: AFP
In his 2028 presidential campaign, Secretary of State and White House National Security Advisor Marco Rubio is pursuing his own agenda. A product of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia that has historically profited from the counterrevolution industry in South Florida, Rubio operates a parallel diplomacy that responds to the interests of militant anti-Castroism and colonizing-genocidal Zionism. (more…)
By Ernesto Novaez Guerreo on February 16, 2026
The recent Executive Order signed by Donald Trump on January 29 is another step in an increasingly evident strategy to “gaskify” life on the island. This has been noted in numerous analyses on the subject. The worsening oil embargo is affecting all sectors of the country’s economic and social life, exacerbating material conditions that were already severely affected by the post-pandemic crisis and the sustained wave of US measures against the Cuban economy. (more…)
February 16, 2026 from Havana
The land unites us, dignity guides us, and solidarity strengthens us.
“Year of the Centenary of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz” – To all sister and solidarity organizations around the world
The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) of Cuba denounces before the world the criminal and new escalation of aggression by Yankee imperialism against our people. The extreme application of Executive Order 14380, which imposes sanctions on any country that sends oil to Cuba, is an act of economic warfare aimed at paralyzing our nation, suffocating our industry and agriculture, and causing suffering among Cuban families. This is not an isolated measure, but the latest link in the genocidal policy of the blockade, which has now lasted more than six decades. (more…)
February 16, 2026
Cuban medical professionals provide healthcare to patients at a medical center in Guatemala. Photo: Cubadebate.
The Guatemalan government announced the termination of the medical collaboration agreement with Cuba under which Cuban health professionals worked in remote and impoverished areas of the country since 1998. (more…)