Category: Cuba
World Peace is SeriouslyThreatened
Speech by Emilio Lozada Garcia, published on U.S Peace Council, September 28, 2026 Cuba Socialista, September 25,2026 — Speech by Emilio Lozada García, member of the Central Committee and head of its Department of International Relations, at the opening of the Forum for Peace. Dear colleagues present here: It is an honor for the Communist Party of Cuba to participate[…]
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The New McCarthyism, Cuba and Communism
A UNAC Statement, July 20, 2026 A new McCarthyism is being designed in Washington that puts all democratic rights in jeopardy. The House Ways and Means Committee has issued subpoenas demanding that three peace and justice organizations turn over internal communications, membership lists and financial records. This demand came 1 day after the release of a State Department report called “Cuba:[…]
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Venezuela, Memory and the Long Arc of Imperialism
by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 29, 2026 Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state. The U.S. subordination of the Venezuelan state did not occur in a vacuum and cannot be discussed without mentioning the awful toll imperialism has taken on people all over the world. The[…]
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Resisting Regime Change in Cuba
by Marjorie Cohn, published on Socialist Action, May 22, 2026 Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, when C.I.A.-trained Cuban exiles landed at Playa Girón, on Cuba’s southern coast. They were defeated within two days by Cuban military forces. Over the[…]
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Elián González: “However Tired the Cuban People May Be, They Know Where the Evil Lies”
By Aníbal Malvar, published on Resumen English, July 11, 2026 Elián González, little Eliancito, the rafter child who saw his mother die during the crossing from Cuba to Miami in 1999 and made headlines in newspapers around the world, is today, 32 years old, and a deputy in the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba. “I didn’t get involved[…]
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Despite US’ Backdoor ‘Diplomacy’, UNGA Once Again Heard Condemnations Of US Blockade On Cuba
by Pablo Mariguet of Breakthrough News, published on Popular Resistance, July 11, 2026 The overwhelming majority of countries supported Havana’s call to debate the situation on the island. Despite US diplomatic pressure and votes against it from its allies. Last week, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez announced that the island nation was bringing a pressing debate to the floor of[…]
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Walking the Tightrope and Threading the Needle: Strategic Adaptation Under Siege
Walking the Tightrope and Threading the Needle: Cuba’s Strategic Adaptation Under Siege: Cuba’s Economic Reforms and Defense of Socialist Sovereignty by Isaac Saney, published on Black Agenda Report, June 24, 2026 The announcement of Cuba’s new package of economic transformations has generated intense debate both within Cuba and among supporters of the Revolution internationally. Some have expressed concern that aspects[…]
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Democratic Party’s Corollary To Trump’s Foreign Policy: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua
by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Popular Resistance, June 17, 2026 Donald Trump’s second term has precipitated a tsunami of criticism from Democrats over his foreign policy. Yet when it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute – if there is any substance remaining, once stripped of partisan bickering –[…]
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Díaz-Canel: “Trump Seeks to Suffocate Cuba So That There Will Be a Social Explosion and He Will Have a Pretext to Intervene”
from elDiario, published on Socialist Action, June 5, 2026 Translation by Walter Lippman Miguel Díaz-Canel [Photo above] is the president of Cuba. He leads a country of just under ten million inhabitants, located 90 miles from Florida. Since the 1959 Revolution, Cuba has been a target of every US administration. But now the situation is particularly extreme and tense, to[…]
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