The United States’ foreign policy toward Cuba has once again displayed, in recent days, its classic contradiction: the rhetoric of absolute crushing clashes with the reality of a country that, no matter how much it is suffocated, refuses to submit. The arrival of the Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at the port of Matanzas, with 730,000 barrels of crude oil, is not only a breath of fresh air for an island mired in an unprecedented energy crisis. It is, above all, a symptom of the labyrinth into which Donald Trump has fallen by trying to simultaneously play the role of the ruthless hawk and the pragmatic negotiator.

While the world focuses its attention on other conflicts, Cuba has become the stage for an unprecedented communications offensive. Mind you, we're not talking about an invasion in the style of the last century; this is more subtle, and perhaps for that reason, more dangerous. It's a war designed to shape perceptions, sow doubt, and fabricate realities.

With an urgent call to transform global food systems, the Ninth International Meeting on Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism opened Monday at the Niceto Perez Comprehensive Center, under the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in the Artemisa municipality of Güira de Melena.