The first time I saw a tank was on the streets of Sancti Spíritus, the city in the center of the island where I was born. It was April 1975, and with the fall of Saigon, Vietnam’s victory was being celebrated after nearly 20 years of U.S. aggression. My child’s eyes do not remember that… Continue reading

On February 25, a boat from Florida carrying 10 armed individuals was intercepted by Border Guard troops. It later emerged that they were planning an armed infiltration in Villa Clara. Can we say that Cuba is facing a multidimensional war that goes beyond the economic sphere? Continue reading

Donald Trump likes to win. He made that clear in his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, where he writes about how he likes to ‘think big’ and ‘win big’. What Trump dislikes is a ‘loser’, a word that he uses frequently in The Art of the Deal, and which he deploys in his… Continue reading

According to authorities from the publicly owned COPEXTEL company, the installation of photovoltaic systems is an urgent priority to guarantee basic services independently from Cuba’s National Electric System. Continue reading

Yesterday, our authorities reported an attempted infiltration for terrorist purposes by 10 individuals on a vessel registered in the State of Florida, United States. Continue reading

In towns and cities outside Havana, families cook when power returns, charge phones in bursts, and sleep in the heat when fans go dead. Clinics and hospitals ration generator fuel and prioritize the most urgent care. Ambulance crews and ER staff work under conditions where a delayed response means a patient may not make it.… Continue reading

Donald Trump and the Prince of Darkness, Marco Rubio, are now inflicting the unthinkable on Cuba – an embargo that deprives the Cuban people of vital petroleum and gas products that fuel a modern society’s ability to function. This is an immoral, illegal and ruthless attempt to deal a final death blow to Cuba, following… Continue reading

The island of Cuba has endured one of the longest blockades in history. Its sacrifice, however, has not been in vain. Continue reading

Let’s crack on and first let’s define the word barbarism seeing though I’ve used it in the title. Barbarism is not merely an act of violence; it is the systematic infliction of suffering on a civilian population to achieve a political goal. It is the calculated denial of life’s basic necessities such as food, light,… Continue reading

To President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and to the government and people of Cuba: From inside the belly of the beast, we send you our unwavering solidarity. Continue reading

A crisis is rapidly developing in Cuba, as the Trump administration’s efforts to block fuel from reaching the island have become increasingly effective since an executive order threatened tariffs on any country trading with Cuba. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has buckled under the pressure and halted oil deliveries to Cuba. Drop Site’s José Luis Granados… Continue reading

Claims by officials in Washington that “Cuba’s collapse is imminent” usually coincide with a tightening of the blockade. Yet, once again, Cubans have reaffirmed their commitment to the revolution and their creative resistance in the face of the latest US attacks. Continue reading

I have been thinking about Fidel Castro a great deal these past few weeks. The Cuban Revolution is being squeezed by the United States government with more force than ever before. The Trump administration is preventing the entry of fuel into the island, which has made it very difficult to run basic services (including life… Continue reading

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. Continue reading

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, the national coordinator of Cuba’s Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), has a large office on the top floor of the organization’s headquarters on the busy Línea Avenue in Havana. The problem is you will never find him there. Hernández, one of the Cuban Five heroes who spent 16 years… Continue reading

They call it an embargo. We call it what it is—economic warfare, a colonial siege dressed up as policy, and proof that the crisis of imperialism has become a war against life itself. Continue reading