Politics

• Monday, February 9th 2026 - 08:20 UTC

  Cuba tells airlines it will run out of jet fuel as of Monday, deepening energy crisis

  

  Cuba has warned international airlines that it will run out of aviation fuel starting Monday, widening an energy emergency that has already disrupted transport, public services and economic activity — and now threatens to further squeeze tourism, one of the island’s main sources of hard currency.

• Monday, February 9th 2026 - 07:43 UTC

  Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: a tribute to Puerto Rico and a defense of America beyond the US

  

  Bad Bunny turned the Super Bowl LX halftime show into a hemispheric cultural statement: Puerto Rico at the center, Spanish as the primary language, and an idea of “America” that stretches beyond the United States.

• Monday, February 9th 2026 - 04:09 UTC

  Argentina regulates ‘Inocencia Fiscal’ to bring ‘mattress dollars’ into the banking system

  

  Argentina’s government has issued the implementing rules for its Inocencia Fiscal law, formally activating a voluntary Simplified Income Tax Regime (RSG) aimed at encouraging taxpayers to bring undeclared savings —popularly known as “mattress dollars”— into the formal economy, while shifting enforcement toward compliance “going forward.”

• Monday, February 9th 2026 - 04:05 UTC

  Venezuela frees Juan Pablo Guanipa and members of María Corina Machado’s inner circle

  

  Opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa and several close collaborators of anti-government figure María Corina Machado were released from detention in Venezuela on Sunday, in a new round of politically sensitive releases that rights groups say must be measured not only by numbers but also by whether detainees regain full civil and political rights.

• Saturday, February 7th 2026 - 07:34 UTC

  Fuel crunch halts Havana buses, squeezes hospitals and deepens Cuba’s power cuts

  

  Cuba’s fuel shortage is rippling through daily life, with Havana’s urban bus network largely shut down, hospitals preparing to scale back non-urgent services, and longer planned blackouts announced in some areas—while social-media reports pointed to pots-and-pans protests in parts of the capital.

• Saturday, February 7th 2026 - 01:41 UTC

  Trump deletes racist Obama video after backlash, including from Republicans

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump removed a Truth Social video that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama with their faces superimposed on primate bodies, after a wave of criticism that included condemnation from some Republicans.

• Saturday, February 7th 2026 - 01:30 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition flags “serious omissions” in amnesty bill, demands full release

  

  Venezuela’s main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), on Friday challenged what it called “serious omissions” in a proposed amnesty law promoted by acting President Delcy Rodríguez and approved in a first debate by the chavista-controlled National Assembly.

• Saturday, February 7th 2026 - 00:53 UTC

  Trump sets 25% “secondary” tariff to squeeze trade with Iran

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing an additional 25% tariff on imports from countries that buy Iranian goods or services, expanding Washington’s economic pressure campaign beyond direct sanctions on Tehran.

• Friday, February 6th 2026 - 21:43 UTC

  Falklands Development Corporation contracts Strategic Projects Manager

  

  The Falkland Islands Development Corporation, FIDC, has announced that Sam Cockwell has joined the team as Strategic Projects Manager. The FIDC is the economic development agency for the Falklands in 1983 in response to the Shackleton Report.

• Friday, February 6th 2026 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands: new Legislative Assembly consolidates close ties with the United Kingdom

  

  On the occasion of the swearing-in of the newly elected members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, its Chair, MLA Jack Ford, travelled to the United Kingdom, where he held a series of meetings with government and opposition lawmakers, as well as senior officials from various ministries and offices linked to the Islands and other British Overseas Territories.