Carlos Alzugaray

My grandfather, Carlos Martin de Alzugaray Lavaggi as seen by the great Cuban cartoonist & painter Conrado Massaguer in the 1920s when he ended his term as President of the Rotary Club of Havana

"We're looking at a deployment of the Venezuelan model [in Cuba]," says Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who was America's first ambassador to Cuba in 55 years. "I don't really like the notion of using humanitarian suffering as a political tool for change. But this is where we are."

Mearsheimer, con la claridad que duele: “Matamos a 38 millones de seres humanos. Treinta y ocho millones. La ruina que hemos extendido por Oriente Medio es de una magnitud que quita el aliento. Piensa en Irak destruido, en el estrangulamiento económico que aplicamos a Venezuela, a Cuba, a Irán… Usamos nuestra fuerza financiera como arma para condenar a pueblos enteros al hambre, al dolor, a la desesperación, esperando que esa agonía los haga levantarse contra sus gobiernos. Ese es el castigo inmenso que infligimos. Y después de todo eso… ¿cómo podría alguien seguir llamando “noble” a Estados Unidos?” #Mearsheimer #Antiimperialismo #YanquiAsesino #SancionesAsesinas #38Millones

China rechaza cualquier marco de “cogobernanza China-EEUU” (propuesta por presidente Trump): "China y EEUU, sin duda, una influencia significativa en el mundo. Pero no debemos olvidar que existen más de 190 países en este planeta, que la historia mundial siempre ha sido escrita por todos los países y que el futuro de la humanidad siempre ha sido forjado por los pueblos de todos los países. La coexistencia pluralista es la verdadera cara de la sociedad humana, y la coexistencia multipolar es la forma adecuada del orden internacional."

Según un estudio de The Lancet, las sanciones de EE. UU. mataron a unos 38 millones de personas entre 1971 y 2021. Ni guerras: sólo sanciones. Es decir, el equivalente a que desapareciera la población de un país como Polonia, Marruecos o Perú.

As the world watches Iran resist the combined might of the West, Trump starves Cuba. It’s everyday people who suffer the most & who you’ll never hear from. Since 1991, this has been a U.S. Campaign of Hunger & Depopulation against Cuba. What is the population of Cuba today vs 5 years & vs 35 years ago? This is a Demographic War, a War of Capitalist Natural Selection 🇨🇺 Mientras el mundo observa cómo Irán resiste el poder combinado de Occidente, Trump mata de hambre a #Cuba. Es la gente común la que más sufre y de la que nunca se sabrá nada. Desde 1991, esta ha sido una campaña estadounidense de hambre y despoblación contra Cuba. ¿Cuál es la población de Cuba hoy en comparación con hace 5 años y hace 35 años? Esta es una guerra demográfica, una guerra de selección natural capitalista 🇨🇺

🚨Likewise, the intermittent in refrigerated transport, due to lack of fuel, has made it difficult for more than 30,000 children to receive their vaccines in a timely manner, despite having the biologicals in our warehouses. #LetCubaLive

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

The part everyone always misses when talking about Cuba. A point I have made for many years taking to Cubans on the island. "But perhaps the biggest lesson about Cuban history that American politicians often miss is that Cubans are resolute nationalists; they have fought time and time again to gain and maintain their independence, even when it has meant direct opposition to the US." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Hardliners say that Cubans are desperate for U.S. intervention. @SaraKozameh talked to many Cubans of all political stripes as part of her coverage for The @guardian. Not one supported U.S. intervention. Cubans want dignity and sovereignty, not U.S. sanctions.

While the United States spends billions bombing Iran and the world watches oil prices crash, China just published the most consequential economic document of the decade. Nobody is paying attention. That is the point. The 15th Five-Year Plan, unveiled at the National People’s Congress on 5th March, is 141 pages. It mentions artificial intelligence over 50 times. It targets 70% AI penetration across the Chinese economy by 2027 and 90% by 2030. It designates humanoid robotics as a core pillar industry with output doubling over five years. It commits to space-Earth quantum communication networks, nuclear fusion timelines, and brain-computer interfaces. It sets AI-related industries at a target value exceeding 10 trillion yuan, approximately $1.38 trillion. And it declares “extraordinary measures” for rare earths and semiconductor self-reliance. This is not an economic plan. It is a war plan for a war the United States is not fighting because it is too busy fighting the wrong one. The US response to Chinese technological competition is the CHIPS and Science Act, signed in 2022. It appropriated $52.7 billion for semiconductor manufacturing, including $39 billion in direct grants and a 25% investment tax credit that expires this year. It has spurred over $640 billion in private investment across 140 projects in 30 states. It created half a million jobs. By any measure, it is the most significant US industrial policy in a generation. And it covers exactly one sector of an economy-wide technological competition. China’s plan covers every sector. AI across the entire economy. Robotics as industrial backbone. Space infrastructure. Quantum computing. Rare earth processing dominance maintained and strengthened. The CHIPS Act is a rifle. The 15th Five-Year Plan is an arsenal. The rare earth dimension is where the plans intersect with the war. China controls 90% of global rare earth processing. Every F-35 joint strike fighter requires 920 pounds of rare earth materials. Every Patriot missile battery, every THAAD interceptor, every guided munition being expended over Iran at a rate of thousands per week depends on materials that China processes. The “extraordinary measures” in the Five-Year Plan are not defensive. They are the tightening of a supply chain that the US military cannot function without. In April 2025, China imposed export controls on all 17 rare earth elements. The January 2027 DFARS deadline requires the Pentagon to eliminate Chinese rare earth dependency from defence procurement. That leaves a 10-to-15-year vulnerability window during which the United States is simultaneously waging a war that consumes rare-earth-dependent munitions at historic rates and attempting to build alternative supply chains that do not yet exist. The Iran war is consuming the interceptors. China is tightening the supply chain that builds the interceptors. The Five-Year Plan is the document that formalises the tightening into national strategy. Trump posted “Death, Fire, and Fury” on Truth Social. Xi Jinping published a 141-page plan to ensure that the materials required to deliver that fire and fury remain under Chinese control for the next fifteen years. One leader is fighting a war. The other is winning the peace. And the 141 pages that will determine which strategy prevails were published the same week the bombs started falling. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

La humillación histórica de EEUU en Irán la va a pagar Cuba. Con la aventura iraní fracasada, Trump buscará una victoria compensatoria barata, rápida y doméstica. Cuba es el chivo expiatorio perfecto: sin disuasión nuclear, sin aliados con proyección real en el hemisferio, aislada internacionalmente, y con una oposición en el exilio presionando electoralmente Florida. Nixon bombardeó Camboya cuando Vietnam lo humilló. El patrón no es nuevo. Los débiles siempre pagan las cuentas que los poderosos no pueden cobrarse.

Teoría General de la Política, de Bobbio Este es el libro que siempre consulto cuando necesito abordar las cuestiones generales que, ineludiblemente, surgen en el estudio de la política. Es un compendio exquisito de varios escritos de Bobbio. Descarga: ia800204.us.archive.org/13/items/bobbi…

Why have Latin American small states retained their affinity for China's Belt and Road Initiative despite varying results? Alongside Zara Albright & Diego Telias, we argue that BRI offered discursive resources even when material benefits fell short. #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Lula telling Ramaphosa "If we don't prepare in the area of Defence, someday someone will invade us". Anyone who believes the US bombed a South American capital for the first time in history without it having any impact on the security doctrine of several countries in the region is mistaken. The effects of January 3 will not be immediate, but it has left a deep scar and will not be forgotten.

U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Cuba Mike Hammer was last week in Italy, where he met with Roberto Occhiuto, the governor of the southern region of Calabria. He pushed Occhiuto to end Calabria’s employment of around 500 Cuban doctors. Occhiuto refused.

Me neither. But it makes some sense. It resembles the so-called "Venezuelan option". I agree with it won't make people in Miami very happy. Yet, if the agreement helps some of the critical problems for the Cuban population, it might be accepted here in Cuba as a lesser evil.

Felicitaciones al @PactoCol por este contundente triunfo electoral. Se consolida el progresismo en Colombia a pesar de todos los esfuerzos para socavarlo. Esto demuestra que la internacional reaccionaria, con sus sucursales mafiosas en Colombia, Miami y Ecuador, no logrará someter a la voluntad del pueblo colombiano en las elecciones presidenciales que se avecinan.

JUST IN: Jamaica's Prime Minister @AndrewHolnessJM has used the platform of the #CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting now under way in St Kitts & Nevis to call attention to the crisis in Cuba. The Spanish-speaking Caribbean country has been facing tightening economic pressures because of actions by the United States. Tomorrow, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend the CARICOM meeting. Here's Holness' take: 🇨🇺 The situation in Cuba must be addressed with clarity and courage. 🇺🇸 Jamaica supports constructive dialogue between Cuba and the United States aimed at de-escalation, reform and stability. 💵 A prolonged crisis in Cuba will affect the Caribbean in respect of migration, security and economic development.

With New BIS Guidance For Fuel, Gas, Petroleum Product Exports To Cuba, Trump Administration Confirms There Is A Private Sector In Cuba And U.S. Companies May Engage. Members Of Congress Not Pleased. - ⁦@CubaCouncil⁩ cubatrade.org/blog/2026/2/25…

this is amazing. In 1963 a deranged "journalist" asks JFK why he won't block Soviet oil to Cuba because "Castro would not be able to survive two weeks" without it. JFK answers because that would obviously constitute an act of war. Now the Trump-Epstein regime is actively blocking ships delivering oil, and the entire Western media class launders it as perfectly normal and just. They're literally enacting the murderous starvation war policy going back to the start of the revolution, and the entire world is just sitting there and looking at it while the Western media and political class launders it and salivates over how great and awesome it is as they talk about "human rights" and "sovereignty".