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Cuba has always defended the need for international relations based on sovereign equality, dialogue and cooperation, rather than hegemonic doctrines or threats of force. The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean have the right to freely determine their own destiny, without external interference.

“Enough is enough. The Congressional Black Caucus will not stand by and allow this administration to continue this barbaric policy that generates unimaginable human suffering in Cuba. We are demanding that you end the oil blockade and lift the sanctions on Cuba.” - CBC Chair Yvette Clarke

For more than 60 years, the U.S. government has economically targeted Cuba while mainstream corporate media often repeats official narratives without fully examining the human cost of sanctions and blockades on everyday Cuban people. In this conversation, Havana-based journalist Liz Oliva Fernández offers a perspective rarely heard in U.S. media — one rooted not in politics from afar, but in the lived reality of surviving, reporting and resisting from inside Cuba itself.

With the economic strangulation of Cuba by the United States, African progressive organizations and movements are calling for broader continental solidarity.

To be against Cuba is to be against humanity. Time and time again Cuba has offered support wherever it is needed most. They have even offered medical aid to the United States because, for them, people and lives come before politics and ideologies.

The question we should be asking ourselves is not whether socialism has failed, but rather: What country in the world, regardless of its political system, would survive a siege of this magnitude for seven decades?

In the first hours of the war by the U.S. and Israel against Iran on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2026, this girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, was bombed. At least 108 were killed, most of them school girls ages 7 to 12 in their morning classes – one a 9-year-old who had memorized the Quran and was preparing for a competition in two months. – Photo: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, X

Jeffrey Epstein – What is going on now? What really happened? Why the delay in releasing the information? What is being hidden?

Maria Mirabel's children and niece are some of the innocent bystanders threatened with starvation because of the US government's 65-year blockade as well as Trump and Rubio's complete ban on oil to the island since January. End the US taxpayer sponsored blockade on Cuba! 

Sudan is now the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Sudanese suffer much as Gazans do but their numbers are far greater. The entire population is 52 million, and according to the UN Refugee Agency, reporting in April 2025, 13 million had to flee their homes.

Cuba has provided Guyana with doctors, scholarships and healthcare for nearly five decades. In return, Guyana's government has turned its back at the moment of Cuba's greatest need.

On Sesame Street, the show no child in the country wanted to miss, Rev. Jesse Jackson teaches children to say and believe, “I am somebody” in 1972. – Photo: Sesame Workshop

The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a special place in his heart for prisoners. Here, despite the disease that would take his life three years later, on Jan. 21, 2023, he made his customary annual visit to the Cook County Jail with his son, Congressman Jonathan Jackson, pushing his wheelchair as prisoners rushed to welcome him. – Screenshot: WGN News

Jesse Jackson participates in a rally, on Jan. 15, 1975, for the Hawkins Humphrey Bill to pass. Inclusion for African Americans in the US workforce. Activism for the people's right to work.

Activist James Zogby pays tribute to his late friend, who was the first politician to welcome Arab Americans into the Democratic Party - and even met with Yasser Arafat when others wouldn't.

Brenda Lopez is cofounder of Cuba Si, Bloqueo No! to end the 65-year-old US blockade that was supposed to strangle Cuba to death. Thanks to grassroots support around the world, Cuba still stands strong.

Maria cooks for her family in remnants of what was her family's home prior to October's Hurricane Melissa in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

“My life changed forever when I met Hugo Chávez,” Prensa Latina reported in a 2023 story on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro describing his 30-year close friendship with his predecessor. “An extraordinary man, deeply human, noble and brave, with determination, ideals of justice and freedom,” he said of Chávez, who “became a second father, an example, a guide and a teacher.”

The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela's strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, attempting to break the Nation's political independence by force. They will not succeed.

Ferduz, a Somali woman, walks down Main Street, where Somali stores have taken the place of boarded-up storefronts. These photos were taken in Lewiston, Maine, in 2018. – Photo: David Bacon