@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-19 14:21:50
Cuba | El Consejo de Defensa Nacional aprueba medidas de “paso al estado de guerra” – NODAL
https://www.nodal.am/2026/01/cuba-el-consejo-de-defensa-nacional-aprueba-medidas-de-paso-al-estado-de-guerra/
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-19 14:21:50
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 12:11:37
Trump is addicted to military force.
Congress should act to curb him
Even before the raid to seize Nicolšs Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 3,
Trump had already attacked as many countries (seven) in 2025 as he did during his entire first term.
After the Maduro operation, which Trump said he watched “like ... a television show,”
he has threatened to take military action in many more places,
including Iran, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland — and no…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-15 13:03:31
🤦🏾 Cuba blames online news site ‘elTOQUE’ for the country’s economic chaos
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/cuba-blames-online-news-site-eltoque-for-the-countrys-economic-chaos.html
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-12-18 21:31:24
Just finished filming a video, who can guess what it was about? #Plushtodon ;)
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-14 09:09:01
Say no to intervention in Cuba and Latin America. Sign the urgent call for Peace and Sovereignty today! #Cuba
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-19 06:50:59
"US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter. This is the largest military buildup of US firepower in the Caribbean in decades. **If regime change succeeds in Venezuela, Cuba may be next**"
US Relied on Illegal Sanctions To Seize Venezuelan Oil Tanker | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-18/us-relied-illegal-sanctions-seize-venezuelan-oil-tanker
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-16 13:41:03
War Powers Resolutions Keep Failing. Democrats Are Going to Try Again Anyway. (Hamed Ahmadi/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/war-powers-resolution-trump-democrats-iran-greenland-cuba-columbia
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p28#a260116p28
@askesis@qoto.org2026-01-04 13:13:25
#Trump agora ameaça invadir #Cuba
https://pt.euronews.com/2026/01/04/trump-tambem-vamos-t…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-11 18:50:02
Trump eleva sus amenazas contra Cuba: "Les sugiero que lleguen a un acuerdo antes de que sea demasiado tarde"
https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/trump-eleva-amenazas-cuba-les-sugiero-lleguen-acuerdo-sea-tarde_1…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-29 22:50:06
Ukraine closes embassy in Cuba over Russian military recruitment: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraine-closes-embassy-in-cuba.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-13 20:06:03
Cuba denounces US seizure of oil tanker off Venezuela's coast as 'piracy' (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/13/cuba-denounces-us-seizure-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-coast
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p44#a251213p44
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 05:34:11
Shortly after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s leader, Trump said that Cuba’s days were numbered
and that his administration may turn its sights on the Communist island next.
“Cuba looks like it is ready to fall,” Trump said to reporters on Air Force One.
“I don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income.
They got all their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil.”
Whether Washington does move against Cuba remains to be seen.
P…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-12 04:33:12
Cuba defiant after Trump says island to receive no more Venezuelan oil or money | KSL.com
https://www.ksl.com/article/51431498/cuba-defiant-after-trump-says-island-to-receive-no-more-venezuelan-oil-or-money
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-11 18:51:03
Trump tells Cuba to ‘make a deal’ or face the consequences
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/11/trump-tells-cuba-to-make-a-deal-or-face-the-consequences
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-13 18:46:02
Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/americas/venezuela-cuba-oil-tanker.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p41#a251213p41
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-21 04:15:37
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Tomaz Rajteric, [unknown] & Isaac Albéniz:
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#TomazRajteric #[unknown] #IsaacAlbéniz
@newstik@social.heise.de2025-11-11 20:57:22
Content warning: NSFW
"En russe, la pratique s'appelle également «branlette espagnole». En néerlandais, c'est «cravate espagnole» et en polonais «amour espagnol».
En Espagne, la pratique est appelée «Cubana» en référence Š Cuba. En Colombie, au Costa Rica et au Venezuela, elle porte le nom de «branlette russe», tandis qu'en Argentine, elle est appelée «faire une turque». En Suède, son nom «le florentin» s'inspire de la ville italienne de Florence", selon Wikipedia:
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-13 01:05:54
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-16 10:08:18
"For 66 years Cuba has endured the most comprehensive blockade imposed on any country. Designated by Washington as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” Cuba is excluded from international financial systems such as Swift, used by more than 11,000 companies in over 200 countries."
‘Fear explains it, fear of the Latin American revolution’ | Morning Star
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-11 21:01:03
Trump Says Cuba Will No Longer Get 'Oil or Money' From Venezuela (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trump-venezuela-oil-cuba.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p58#a260111p58
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-03 20:42:46
"The secretary accused Cuba of being “run by incompetent, senile men" - dude, look at your boss
Marco Rubio warns Cuba after U.S. captures Venezuela's Maduro
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5671259-rubio-warns-cuba-maduro-capture/
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2026-01-06 06:51:14
Het gaat gebeuren, de invasie van Groenland, en er is maar 1 manier om de NAVO te redden en dat is de VS er onmiddellijk uit smijten. Om te beginnen al die VS soldaten in NL de wacht aanzeggen. Binnen twee weken moeten ze hun boeltje pakken.
Pappen en nathouden gaat bij deze gasten niet werken. Willen ze nou echt een herhaling van Chamberlain?
'Annexatie Groenland zou einde betekenen van de NAVO'
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-01-04 22:10:45
So what's next for the doddering dictator? Cuba? Nigeria? Greenland? Iran? Make a decision quickly before he falls asleep again.
Have to admit he knows how to spend other peoples' money and spill other peoples' blood.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-12 18:25:10
He'll probably get that Peace Prize next year.
The List of Countries Trump Is Threatening With War Keeps Growing
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/06/trump-wars-venezuela-colombia-cuba-iran/
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-03 22:48:18
My first question on this morning's events was answered by the end of the bbc newscast: Cuba
So my second question: is Canada going to be America's bitch in this 'intervention' too?
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-05 03:47:50
Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US action in Venezuela
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/05/cuba-says-32-cuban-officers-were-killed-in-us-action-in-venezuela_6749081_4.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 18:41:04
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-11 15:20:37
Trump threatens Cuba: Negotiate "BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE" (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/11/trump-cuba-threat-maduro-venezuela-oil
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p18#a260111p18
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-04 10:31:33
Content warning: Sobre lo de Venezuela y la reacción de España
Es una auténtica pena que la respuesta del gobierno español no haya sido de apoyar sin fisuras a la población venezolana, sus vidas, su integridad y su derecho a existir en paz. Compartimos mucho mšs que un idioma, somos familia y deberíamos haberlo demostrado. Lo mismo que frente a las amenazas a Colombia, Cuba o México. Tenemos siglos de historia común. No podemos andarnos con tonterías cuando bombardean a un país hispanoamericano (ni a ningún otro)
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-04 20:12:04
"They're in a lot of trouble": Rubio refuses to rule out Cuba strike from US - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/theyre-in-a-lot-of-trouble-rubio-refuses-to-rule-out-cuba-strike-from-us/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-07 23:40:46
'People would attempt to flee': Concern grows over possible Cuba collapse (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/following-venezuela-raid-fears-grow-of-economic-collapse-in-cuba-00714716
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p129#a260107p129
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-15 06:13:50
An army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served two tours in Iraq was deported on Friday morning from an immigration detention facility in Florence, Arizona.
Arizona state representative Raquel Teršn told Fox 10 Phoenix that Jose Barco, a Venezuelan-born veteran whose family fled Cuba as refugees, was deported at 4am from Arizona.
Anna Stout, a volunteer on Barco’s defense team, told Denver 7 his team was not notified of plans for his deportation.
Barco’s family has s…
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-01-04 22:10:35
So what's next for the doddering dictator? Cuba? Nigeria? Greenland? Iran? Make a decision quickly before he falls asleep again.
Have to admit he knows how to spend other peoples' money and spill other peoples' blood.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-30 09:02:37
"...no deaths were tallied in Cuba, more than 735,000 evacuated residents slowly returned home as the military helped to rescue people in isolated communities."
Cuba has for years done an excellent job in protecting people from hurricanes. But the impacts will still be a huge challenge to the besieged island. #EndTheBlockade!
Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hur…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-03 22:19:27
Cuba reconnects power grid after partial failure left Havana, much of west in dark | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-power-grid-partial-collapse-9.7001975?cmp=rss
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-30 13:47:15
Ukraine war latest live: Kyiv closes embassy in Cuba over Russian military recruitment: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/ukraine-war-latest-live-kyiv.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-06 03:05:34
Latin America silent as Trump menaces Cuba, Colombia and Mexico (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/latin-america-silent-as-trump-menaces-cuba-colombia-and-mexico-00711983
http://www.memeorandum.com/260105/p160#a260105p160
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-01 13:03:39
Melissa hit blockaded Cuba too. You can donate to the appeal here (via CSC shop).
CSC news: CSC launches #Hurricane #Melissa relief appeal
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 16:21:16
Trump’s comments about Greenland, Colombia and Cuba offered a glimpse of how emboldened he feels after the quick capture of Nicolšs Maduro.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/trump-venezuela-monroe-doctrine.html?smid=nytc…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-05 03:45:50
Trump has started the #ResourceWars
Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-on-return-trip-to-washington-predicts-demise-of-cuba-warns-colombia-threatens-greenland-00710410
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-04 20:15:32
Marco Rubio says he believes Cuba is 'in a lot of trouble' (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/marco-rubio-believes-cuba-trouble-havana-maduro-military-venezuela-rcna252150
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p42#a260104p42
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 03:35:51
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbncs3…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-01 09:17:43
Interesting: Alejandro Gil led the disastrous unification of the dual currency system, exposing those without access to hard currency to unaffordable prices.
Cuba charges former economy minister Gil of espionage, financial crimes | Corruption News | Al Jazeera
http…
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social2025-12-24 07:40:23
Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 24. Dezember 1962 führte die #Sowjetunion Test 219 durch – eine der stärksten Atomexplosionen der Geschichte. Mit 24,4 Megatonnen Sprengkraft markierte dieser Test einer #Interkontinentalrakete eine weitere Eskalation im nuklearen Wettrüsten.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-05 03:40:30
Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-on-return-trip-to-washington-predicts-demise-of-cuba-warns-colombia-threatens-greenland-00710410
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p65#a260104p65
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-07 00:10:39
Trump adds 25 countries to costly U.S. visa bond policy (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/us-trump-visa-bond-venezuela-cuba-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p144#a260106p144
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-23 06:28:39
Cuba captures alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin wanted by US, Mexico says | Drugs News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/23/cuba-captures-alleged-chinese-fentanyl-kingpin-wanted-by-us-mexico-says?traffic_source=rss
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-29 18:41:08
US fails to make big dent in UN vote calling for end to Cuba embargo (Michelle Nichols/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-fails-make-big-dent-un-vote-calling-end-cuba-embargo-2025-10-29/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p92#a251029p92
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-02 06:54:46
Hurricane Melissa deals another heavy blow to Jamaica's farmers and fishers | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/davis-jamaica-nicaragua-cuba-world-food-program-b2856843.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 19:44:37
Trump's mad hubris has been coming fast and furious.
On Air Force One, next to a grinning and bobbing Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Trump doubled down on the notion that the failed state of Cuba would be next to fall,
finding time to threaten Colombia, Mexico, and even Greenland.
This isn’t evidence of great power.
But it is more than just the egotistical impulse of an unchecked imperial president.
It is a deliberate strategy that involves the gleeful destructio…
@buercher@tooting.ch2026-01-03 22:26:08
On connaît le plan de Rubio (Cuba). Mais Trump, sous son influence agit de manière impulsive, Quick Win contre un petit pays, sans réfléchir Š la suite. Le procès sans dossier solide va être compliqué.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-09 16:31:51
Solidarity with the Bolivarian Republic is crucial. At stake is not only the future of Venezuela but also that of the Cuban Revolution ... Cuba has been battered and besieged by the United States: one invasion defeated at Playa Girón, constant sanctions, constant attacks, constant lies. Without Venezuelan oil, supplied free since the Bolivarians came to power, there is reason to fear for Cuba’s future.
Tariq Ali, Abduction in Caracas — Sidecar
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 20:56:22
Michael Gibson
(Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund)
just posted:
“Someone should pitch Rubio on a charter city in Venezuela and Cuba.”
As if he only just thought of this now
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/1…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-04 09:30:47
'Hoy.. Venezuela, mañana.. Cuba o Colombia, pero también países europeos que no adopten los marcos políticos de EEUU –como apuntan algunas declaraciones de Trump y la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional – y que contengan recursos o territorios con rutas interesantes para Washington, como es el caso de Groenlandia, perteneciente a Dinamarca.'
Los bombardeos de EEUU en Venezuela y el secuestro de Maduro: un crimen internacional de agresión con consecuencias para Europa
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-30 15:49:26
'How it happened in Cuba': Pop superstar Gloria Estefan now carries her passport 'just in case' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/gloria-estefan-trump/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-28 21:56:21
Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as category 5 storm
It dropped to a category 4 cyclone as it exited the island
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/28/hurricane-melissa-live-u…
@buercher@tooting.ch2026-01-05 07:48:45
Trump’s actions cement a new system in which the naked self-interest of two or three “great powers” dominates. In this world order, Washington and Beijing will decide on the basis that might is right.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, explicitly threatened on Saturday that Cuba was next. “Cuba is a disaster, run by incompetent and senile men,” he said. “If I were them, I would be a little worried.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/venezuela-european-leaders-divided-and-torn-in-response-to-us-ousting-of-maduro?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-29 09:12:19
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-25 22:50:45
The A.C.L.U. challenge accuses the current administration of housing small numbers of men at Guantšnamo, rather then in U.S. facilities,
as part of a messaging strategy
“to frighten immigrants, deter future migration, induce self-deportation and coerce people in detention to give up claims against removal and accept deportation elsewhere.”
It has called conditions inhumane, and the detainees’ access to legal counsel inadequate.
The administration contends that the de…
