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Full page advert in new York Times calls for end of the Blockade
Source: | Click here for original article Solidarity groups across the United States have worked together to coordinate an Open letter to President Biden that has now been published in the New York Times as a full page advert. The letter makes an urgent appeal to the US administration to lift the more than 200…
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The recent unrest in Cuba: a textbook example of fake news and media warfare
Source: The Morning Star | Click here for original article MARC VANDEPITTE explains how forces outside the island helped start the unrest and why the Western media then misrepresented events as they unfolded ON SUNDAY July 11, Cubans took to the streets to express their dismay. It seemed like a spontaneous action, but on closer…
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Unite condemns United States interference in the internal affairs of Cuba
Source: Unite the Union press office | Click here for original article Unite Press Release: Unite, the UK’s leading union, which has long supported progressive causes in Latin America, has declared its belief that recent disturbances in Cuba have at their root cause the inhumane blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba and which…
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Comunicado de la Campaña de Solidaridad con Cuba sobre la situación actual – Español
Declaración de la Campaña de Solidaridad con Cuba sobre la situación actual en Cuba La Campaña de Solidaridad con Cuba insta al gobierno de Estados Unidos a suspender el bloqueo a Cuba para permitir la entrada de ayuda médica y humanitaria de emergencia al país con el fin de aliviar la crisis económica y de…
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Cuba's COVID vaccine rivals BioNTech-Pfizer, Moderna
Source: DW | Click here for original article The Abdala vaccine is named after a poem by independence hero Jose Marti Cuba’s health authorities said this week the domestically produced Abdala vaccine has proven to be 92% effective against the coronavirus in clinical trials. DW takes a closer look. In a measure of its ambitious…
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Fear of Florida: Why Biden doesn't act on Cuba
Source: The Hill | Click here for original article The U.S. vote in the United Nations General Assembly against the resolution calling on the United States to lift its embargo on Cuba is another example of President Joe Biden’s reluctance to move away from Donald Trump’s Cuba policy. The first signal was the administration’s decision…
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US keeps Cuban soccer players from playing in CONCACAF Gold Cup
Source: Prensa Latina | Click here for original article Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez and Cuba’s Soccer Association blamed the US blockade for keeping the national team from playing in the United States. The aspirations of the Cuban team, which was going through an upward moment, to compete in the preliminary phase of the Concacaf…
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Washington’s accusation in its report that Cuba engages in people trafficking is a lie
Declaration by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs On July 1, 2021, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken submitted his department’s ‘2020 Trafficking in Persons Report’, a document which, in common with others of the kind published by the Department, entirely lacks international or moral authority; it is a vehicle purely for false accusations and political…
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Hunger as a Weapon: How Biden's Inaction Is Aggravating Cuba's Food Crisis
Source: Common Dreams | Click here for original article If President Biden wants to support human rights in Cuba and empower the Cuban people, he can start by alleviating the food crisis by ending Trump’s prohibition on remittances and restoring the right of U.S. residents to travel. While President Joe Biden dithers about when or…
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Blockade against Cuba is an attack on sovereignty says French academic
Source: Prensa Latina (Spanish) | Click here for original article The French academic and essayist Salim Lamrani told Prensa Latina that the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba represents an attack on the sovereignty and self-determination of the Cuban people, and demanded it be lifted. In an interview with the Cuban news website,…