An international group of leftist lawyers on Tuesday condemned the US blockade, sanctions, and war threats against Cuba, and the mounting repression of solidarity with the long-suffering Cuban people. The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) held a virtual press conference “to condemn escalating United States measures against Cuba and to call for renewed international […]

When Volker Türk, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, speaks in such stark moral terms—“children are dying”—the world should listen. His recent call for the United States to lift its sanctions on Cuba is not ideological. It is humanitarian. This is no longer a debate about geopolitics. It is about whether policies […]

This article is based on reporting by the Miami Herald and Nora Gámez Torres. A Coral Gables–based energy company has reached an important agreement to supply fuel to Cuba’s growing private sector, signaling a significant change in how energy might be distributed on the island. The deal enables Vanguard Energy to lease storage facilities owned […]

“The situation will worsen significantly and collapse, which would be harmful to our country,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox, referring to the situation in Cuba and its potential impact on the United States. “On the other hand, the situation could improve. But for that to happen, significant and deep economic reforms are necessary. […]

A trio of United Nations rights experts on Tuesday demanded that the US government “cease all threats” against Cuba and accused President Donald Trump of furthering a “disturbing trend of lawlessness” with preparations to attack the island nation; an indictment of its former president; and a protracted oil blockade that has left Cubans facing blackouts […]

These days, most of Havana’s streets are fairly empty of cars, but full of people walking or riding bicycles, electric bikes, electric “tricycles,” or scooters. Trash has piled up on most corners where regular pick-up has become impossible given that the garbage trucks have no gasoline. The average conversation starts with comparing who’s been without […]

History often repeats itself—not because lessons are missing, but because policymakers frequently choose to ignore them. In The March of Folly, historian Barbara Tuchman detailed how governments across centuries pursued policies that were not just misguided but self-defeating. From Troy to Vietnam, the pattern remained the same: leaders pushed forward even when evidence advised them […]

The Supreme Court’s May 21, 2026, decision in Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises will likely be remembered as one of the more consequential property rulings of recent years — not because it resolves the disputes arising from Cuba’s revolutionary expropriations, but because it fundamentally reframes them using twisted logic and opening a door […]

Violence — including terrorism — against Cuba has long been tolerated in Washington; Cuba’s response to it has not. That double standard is once again fully evident as the Trump administration today indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the shoot-down of two planes 30 years ago — even as the U.S. military regularly destroys […]

The 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft flown by Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR) has often been viewed in stark moral terms: the Cuban government destroying unarmed planes and killing four Cuban American men. That truth is real—and also incomplete. Declassified records from the National Security Archive show a much more troubling reality: the U.S. […]

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 an unnamed White House official told the news outlet Axios that the Cubans have been “discussing plans” to launch drones against the US. “Cuba is the country […]

(Note: Hours after we published this opinion piece written by our editor, the Miami Herald reports that Cuba has signaled willingness to accept a proposed $100 million in U.S. aid, but only under standard, unconditional humanitarian terms. In a pointed response, President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that if the United States truly delivers the assistance “in […]

Marco Rubio came out of a meeting at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, where they discussed “issues of common interest in the Western Hemisphere,” among other topics. Hours later, the State Department announced the debut of the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor as the czar of sanctions against Cuba. The initial penalty […]

A recent YouGov poll clearly shows that the American public is not interested in going to war with Cuba. The survey indicates that 64 percent of Americans oppose military action against the island, while only 15 percent support it, and 21 percent are unsure. Among those with an opinion, opposition skyrockets to 81 percent. That […]

President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez of Cuba on Saturday responded with stark and defiant words to the latest attacks coming from US President Donald Trump, who on Friday signed a new executive order authorizing even more aggressive sanctions against the island nation and later threatened to invade the country. “The President of the United States escalates […]

In the 1960s, the CIA used to refer to its best Cuban agents as “golden boys.” They were, for the most part, young men from good families, educated in elite private schools, with time spent in the United States, admirers of its system, and convinced anti-communists. They were recruited by the thousands. Some made careers […]

For decades, Cuban migration to the United States was not just about humanitarian concern — it was a political tool influenced by Washington’s hostility toward Cuba. Today, with the new hardline policies of Donald Trump, that tool is being abandoned, leaving tens of thousands of Cubans in legal limbo and revealing the deeply cynical nature […]

Even as U.S. President Donald Trump publicly threatens a “new dawn” for Cuba—at times invoking the possibility of military force—recent developments suggest a more complex and potentially constructive reality unfolding behind the scenes. Quiet diplomatic engagement between Washington and Havana appears not only ongoing, but increasingly substantive. Reports confirmed by multiple outlets indicate…

A recent poll conducted for the Miami Herald by Bendixen & Amandi International and The Tarrance Group reveals something both striking and deeply unsettling: 79% of Cubans and Cuban Americans in South Florida support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba. Even more telling, large majorities reject negotiations that might improve the lives of people on […]

Is Cuba next in line for a US attack? US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said it could be, and USA Today on Wednesday cited “sources familiar” with the matter who said that the Pentagon is “quietly ramping up” preparations to wage war on the socialist nation if Trump gives the order. On Monday, Trump […]

In his first-ever interview on American television, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel tells Meet the Press that Cuba would fight back against any potential U.S. military action, saying Cuban leadership is prepared to “give our lives for the revolution.”

The U.S. desire to take over Cuba dates back to the country’s beginnings. As early as 1805, Thomas Jefferson, one of the so-called “Founding Fathers” of the United States, called Cuba “the most interesting addition that could be made to our system of states.” Barely 20 years later, then–Secretary of State John Quincy Adams introduced […]

HAVANA, Cuba — U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Jonathan Jackson (IL-01) released the following statement upon the conclusion of their five-day Congressional delegation to Cuba: “The illegal U.S. blockade of fuel to Cuba—90 miles south of the United States—adds to the longest embargo in world history and is causing untold suffering to the Cuban […]

Less than 24 hours after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, declared that the oil blockade on Cuba would no longer be enforced, his White House spokesperson insisted that there had been no change in policy and that Washington reserves the right to seize vessels from Mexico and other countries that send fuel […]

A tanker flying the Russian flag has started offloading about 700,000 barrels of crude oil at Cuba’s Matanzas terminal, according to maritime tracking data. The shipment marks the first significant delivery of its kind in months, arriving after U.S. sanctions sharply limited the island’s access to imported fuel. The vessel, the Anatoly Kolodkin, which is […]

The U.S. military is not rehearsing for an invasion of Cuba or actively preparing to militarily take over the island, ​ Francis Donovan, head of the U.S. Southern Command, told lawmakers recently. Meanwhile, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossio responded to Trump’s threats to “take Cuba in some form,” insisting that it had […]

… I am now every day in danger of giving my life for my country, and for my duty—since I understand it and have the resolve to carry it out—to prevent, in time, with Cuba’s independence, the United States from spreading throughout the Antilles and falling, with that added force, upon our lands of America. […]

Álvaro Fernández recently reminded us in Progreso Weekly that once upon a time, among Cuban exiles, the word dialogue turned into something worse than an ordinary pejorative. Beginning in the 1970s—especially after the first serious proposals for engagement between Washington and Havana—the very idea of talking to the Cuban government was treated as heresy. A […]

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday condemned US President Donald Trump’s open threat to forcibly seize control of the island nation and vowed that any such aggression would be met with “impregnable resistance.” “The US publicly threatens Cuba, almost daily, with overthrowing the constitutional order by force,” Díaz-Canel wrote on social media. “And it uses […]

For decades in Miami’s Cuban exile community, one word carried the weight of betrayal: dialogue. To suggest that the United States should talk to the Cuban government was not merely controversial. It could be socially ruinous, politically toxic, and at times physically dangerous. Those who dared advocate engagement were branded dialogueros — collaborators with the […]