“Like any country, Cuba has the right to defend itself against external aggression,” said the Cuban embassy. “It is called self-defense, and it is protected by International Law and the UN Charter.” Marco Rubio on May 6, 2026 -- public domain image By Julia Conley, Common Dreams Cuban officials said the Trump administration is making “increasingly implausible accusations” against the country as it pushes to justify, “without any excuse, a military attack against Cuba,” after

The situation has been classified by the United Nations as a “humanitarian crisis” that affects the most vulnerable groups the hardest. The United States insists on its policy of suffocating Cuba at all costs. Vicente De la O Levy, Cuba’s minister of energy and mines -- image via X By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch The US oil blockade against Cuba continues to cause enormous hardships for the Cuban people. Following the attack on Venezuela by US forces on January 3, 2026,

A US invasion would hardly inaugurate a new conflict. It would instead mark the bloodiest phase in a long, bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty. Cubans rally on May Day 2026 By Eric Ross, Common Dreams In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions have further tightened the noose of a punitive US blockade that has strangled the isl

La gestión del presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele ha dado pie a la conformación de una propuesta que podríamos denominar el “Modelo Bukele”, en el que, de forma aparente, se ha logrado seducir políticamente a grandes mayorías de nuestra región hasta hacerlas preferir un autoritarismo extremo a cambio de una supuesta seguridad ciudadana. Gracias a una efectiva propaganda, este modelo puede consolidarse como un fenómeno regional en una Nuestra América signada por la violen

The boat strikes have killed nearly 200 people, many of them fishermen. Who will be held accountable? Image of an alleged drug boat seconds before it was destroyed in early May -- image via US Southern Command video on X By Farrah Hassen The U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the U.S. military struck another boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one su

Trump with Xi Jinping in Beijing, May 13 -- public domain image By Tings Chak Desde Pekín, esta semana se está llevando a cabo ante los ojos del mundo la primera visita de Estado de los EE. UU. a China en nueve años. El Gran Salón del Pueblo está abierto a Donald Trump, quien ha viajado acompañado de dieciocho ejecutivos estadounidenses, entre los que se encuentran Apple, Tesla, BlackRock, Boeing y Nvidia. El jueves se celebra un banquete de Estado, seguido de un té y un almu

Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Nayib Bukele on Salvadoran independence day in 2024 -- PresidenciaSV, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Sulma Arias Who of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For spea

Trump arrives in Beijing -- image via the White House on X By Tings Chak From Beijing this week, the first US state visit to China in nine years is being staged for the world to see. The Great Hall of the People is open to Donald Trump, who has traveled with eighteen US executives—Apple, Tesla, BlackRock, Boeing, and Nvidia among them. A state banquet on Thursday, followed by tea and lunch on Friday. On the streets of Beijing, ‘the Beast‘ has been securing the motorcade route

Screenshot from video Cuba has responded to Trump’s aggressive, bombastic and overtly violent and imperialist rhetoric towards the socialist nation with a symbolic Lego-style video inspired by Iran’s viral AI animations, emphasizing resilience and national dignity. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials strongly criticized Trump’s comments suggesting Cuba’s government was in its “last moments.” Cuban leaders have said these remarks are attempts to pressure and

May Day in Havana, 2026 On May 1, 2026, while millions of people in Cuba were on the streets against the US policy of strangulation, US President Donald Trump imposed new sanctions on the socialist island. In addition to the already existing obstacles to Cuba's economic development caused by the decades-long blockade policy, these new measures once again worsen the living conditions of the Cuban people. The new blockade measures are directed against the energy‑ and oil sector

The Executive Order of May 1st and the Blockade Measures Announced Today Further Increase the Harm to the Cuban Population and Reinforce the Threat of Aggression Communiqué issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects, in the strongest possible terms, the Executive Order issued by the White House on May 1st, 2026, which tightens, to unprecedented and extreme levels, the economic, commerc

May Day in Havana, 2026 Via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The Puerto Rico Committee of Solidarity with Cuba (CSC) has called for a total national and international rejection of organizations and governments supporting Donald Trump’s new order against Cuba. Milagros Rivera, president of the CSC, called out the audacity of the U.S. president for threatening dangerous military aggression against Cuba on May 1st, the very day millions of Cubans filled s

The WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram audio recordings leaked by Hondurasgate reveal an alleged plot and secret agreements involving Honduran President Nasry Asfura, former President Juan Orlando Hernández (convicted of drug trafficking), Argentine President Javier Milei, and the US and Israeli governments, among others. Juan Orlando Hernández and Javier Milei By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch In 2024, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted and sentenc

May Day in Havana, 2026 Via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) party has denounced U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of a possible military intervention against Cuba and condemned the blockade of the island. In a statement, the political group emphasized that in the year marking the Centennial of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, there is no better or more fitting tribute to him than the unity and res

LET CUBA LIVE MAY 5, 2026 -- The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) strongly condemns the latest coercive measures and military threats against the Cuban people imposed by the US government. The US government has imposed a new wave of sanctions on Cuba, on top of the oil blockade early this year. US President Donald Trump is also escalating his threats of military aggression against Cuba, by announcing his intention to send the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier towards the

Image via the PCB Build the anti-imperialist movement and advance the working class struggle! The Central Committee of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) assesses that the imperialist system, the more it intensifies its decline, the more it abuses violence and aggressiveness. What we are witnessing are not isolated incidents, but part of a global offensive by a decaying system that, through increased aggression and attacks, attempts to maintain its hegemony over the peoples.

Image via the PCC Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, at the closing ceremony of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, at the Convention Center, on May 2, 2026, "Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz". Translated from the Spanish. Dear sisters and brothers in solidarity with Cuba and with the just causes of the wor

Final Declaration of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Anti-Imperialism, “100 Years with Fidel”, translated from the Spanish On May 2, 2026, 766 delegates from 36 countries, representing 152 political, social, union, solidarity, youth, and peace organizations, came together in Havana for the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Anti-Imperialism, “100 Years with Fidel” and declared that: We’re holding this meeting in a world facing multidimensi

The real story is not the candle in the window. It is the hand that cut the fuel. May Day march beginning before dawn in Havana -- image via the PCC on X By Michelle Ellner, Common Dreams When the lights go out in Havana, the foreign cameras arrive to film the darkness. They come for the blackout glow: candles in apartment windows, families sleeping on balconies, mothers fanning infants through another airless night. They come for the line outside the pharmacy, the bus that n

“Working people refuse to pay the price for Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East,” said the European Trade Confederation. Rally in the Philippines -- image via news video screenshot By Brad Reed, Common Dreams May Day demonstrations across the world on Friday denounced the US-Israeli war against Iran, which has caused a global energy crisis that is disproportionately harming working-class people. Among the earliest May Day demonstrations took place in the Philippines, and a