Since the triumph of the Revolution, Cuban authorities have documented approximately 5,780 separate terrorist acts directed against their country. Weapons seized from the US boat by Cuban authorities -- image via the Embajada de la República de Cuba en Francia on Facebook By Manolo De Los Santos On the morning of February 25, 2026, Cuban authorities thwarted yet another terrorist attack one mile off the country’s northern coast. When it was over, four men lay dead, six more w

Cuban and Palestinian flags outside the University of Havana, May 2024 By Biljana Vankovska Últimamente, me encuentro pensando en una personaje de la antigua película partisana yugoslava La batalla de Sutjeska . La película está dedicada a la heroica batalla y a la brillante maniobra táctica de Tito para liberar a las unidades partisanas rodeadas. Sin embargo, ese no es mi tema aquí, aunque ahora estemos hablando de un cerco mucho mayor que se cierne sobre la humanidad. En un

Cubans march in solidarity with Gaza in Havana, October 2024 By Biljana Vankovska These days, I find myself thinking of a character from the old Yugoslav partisan film Battle of Sutjeska . The film is dedicated to the heroic battle and Tito’s brilliant tactical maneuver to extricate the surrounded partisan units. However, that is not my subject here, even if we are now speaking of a far greater encirclement tightening around humanity. In one scene, the young nurse Dana tries

The arrest of a drug kingpin in Mexico has reignited debate over how active U.S. military and intelligence forces are in Mexico and where they might be headed. Marco Rubio meets with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City, Mexico, September 3, 2025 -- public domain image By John P. Ruehl FBI Director Kash Patel’s announcement on January 23 regarding the arrest of Canadian drug trafficker Ryan Wedding in Mexico led to immediate diplomatic tension between Washingto

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José ‘Pepe’ Mujica in 2023 -- Pablo Valadares/Câmara dos Deputados, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ali Abutalebi In his condolence...

We are closer to nuclear disaster than ever before. By Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into...