For the first time, polls reveal more international support for China than for the United States

PASCUAL SERRANO
The perception of China has improved in recent years, while that of the United States has worsened, to the point that China is now viewed more positively than the United States in most of the 36 countries surveyed. This is according to a Pew Research Center report comparing people's perceptions of the United States and China around the world. The results are based on surveys of 42.151 adults conducted between February 8 and May 13, 2026.

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The summit of the warning

XULIO RIOS
The Xi-Trump summit in Beijing was surrounded by an ostensibly optimistic tone and carefully choreographed diplomacy, but the actual outcome calls for considerably more caution. Beyond the imagery and solemn declarations, there were no truly decisive announcements in either trade or technology, precisely the areas where the structural rivalry between the United States and China is currently concentrated. In fact, the fact that the preliminary negotiations dragged on practically until the last minute in Seoul suggests that the differences remain deep and difficult to manage.

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How is Cuba experiencing the energy blockade?

PASCUAL SERRANO
Havana
Everyone seems outraged by Trump, his geopolitical interpretations, his political measures, and his wars. However, both politicians and mainstream media then agree with him that the situation in Cuba is desperate and on the verge of collapse. The scenario they promote is that of a failed state so that a military intervention can be interpreted not so much as aggression, but as salvation or, at the very least, something that cannot worsen the situation.

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End Israel's war against peace

JEFFREY SACHS AND SYBIL FARES
A two-week ceasefire has partially halted the Israeli-American war against Iran. The war achieved absolutely nothing that a competent diplomat could not have accomplished in an afternoon. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war and is now open again, but under greater Iranian control.

Meanwhile, the chaos continues. Israel is determined to break the ceasefire, as this was an Israeli war from the start.

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"Little children who knew nothing about politics or wars"

MAHMOUD ASLAN
Minab and Tehran (Iran) 

Mohammed Shariatmadar stood before the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyiba girls' primary school in Minab, southern Iran, on Saturday morning, unable to take in what he was seeing.

Her six-year-old daughter, Sara, a second-grade student, was one of dozens of girls who died when the school was bombed in the early hours of the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran.

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From blockade to suffocation: the United States' war against Cuba enters its most brutal phase

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a generator at a distant hospital and the murmur of a family gathered by candlelight. For them, “U.S. national security” is not an abstract concept debated on American cable news; it is the tangible reality of a 20-hour blackout, the smell of spoiled food, and the fear for a child’s refrigerated medication.

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With Nicolás Maduro on the eve of his kidnapping

IGNACIO RAMONET
It was a month ago. On the night of January 2-3, 2026. It was a few minutes before 2:00 a.m. on that sinister Saturday… We were shocked by the brutality of the attack under the full moon. The violence of the successive explosions. The columns of dark smoke. The intensity of the flames illuminating a stunned, sleepless, and silent Caracas. And then, like a punch to the gut, the news of the kidnapping…

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Yemen's Foreign Minister: "The Yemeni case is a clear example of US intervention in the region"

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Abdulwahed Abu Ras is the Foreign Minister of the Yemeni government based in Sana'a. As one of the country's top political figures, he is the most authoritative voice to describe the crisis that has gripped Yemen for over a decade. We spoke with him about the civil war, the regional chaos in the Middle East, and his Cabinet's positions on Palestine and Syria.

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