Rosa Miriam Elizalde

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Fidel’s beautiful revolution

August 19, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

Fidel Castro sleeps, overcome by exhaustion, while several young people surround him with the joyful curiosity of those who discover that even a hero closes his eyes. In other photographs, he eats with farmers, rides […]

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Hybrid hell

July 3, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

July 2 — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla stepped up the tone of his condemnation, stating that the U.S. government’s aggression against the island is “multidimensional.” Therefore, at a press conference on June 30, […]

Cuba: Under a medieval siege

June 18, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

The idea of a medieval siege against Cuba is no longer just a metaphor. It describes a tangible reality experienced on a daily basis, one that is already manifesting in dramatic ways — with babies […]

The shadow of the small planes

May 22, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

May 21, 2026 In international politics, wars rarely begin with a single shot. They start with carefully measured leaks, alarmist headlines, intelligence reports, court documents, and narrative operations designed to transform a political adversary into […]

Cuba does not want war, but it does not fear it

March 27, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

The first time I saw a tank was on the streets of Sancti Spíritus, the city in the center of the island where I was born. It was April 1975, and with the fall of […]

Sanctions as a reflex: The high cost of the U.S. blockade on Cuba

January 30, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

When a government turns a tool into an automatic response to any problem, it stops using an instrument and starts practicing a reflex. That is exactly what is happening with the United States’ sanctions policy, […]

Nicolás Maduro (left), President of Venezuela, and Miguel Díaz-Canel (right), President of Cuba, during a session of the Sao Paulo Forum held in Havana in 2018. foto: Rosa Miriam Elizalde

And then 2026 arrived

January 2, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

Nicolás Maduro remains in Miraflores Palace, and Cuba celebrates the 67th anniversary of the Revolution today. January 1, 2026, dawns with this uncomfortable truth for the opinion machine that has spent months predicting the imminent […]

Rubio and international blackmail

October 25, 2025 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

Marco Rubio has unleashed an aggressive campaign of falsehoods and bullying to secure votes against Cuba in the United Nations General Assembly. With one week to go before the annual vote on the blockade of […]

Naval blockade of Cuba

April 12, 2025 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

An African country with coastlines on the eastern Atlantic decided to donate 3,000 tons of horse mackerel to Cuba, the delicious oily fish that swims in shoals from the Canary Islands and Senegal to the […]

USAID: the Empire reinvents itself

February 15, 2025 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

Elon Musk, sworn in as Secretary for Government Efficiency, thundered: “The time has come for USAID to die.” His words resonated like the harbinger of an imminent storm. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump, on his first […]