Author: Natasha Hickman
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Miami Mayor calls for air strikes on Cuba
Source: Morning Star | Click here for original article MIAMI Mayor Francis Suarez has called for US air strikes on Cuba as he pressed the case for military intervention to force regime change on the socialist Caribbean island. He was speaking in an interview with right-wing US television channel Fox News on 14 July when…
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Cuba Solidarity Campaign statement on the current situation in Cuba
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign calls on the US government to suspend the blockade of Cuba to allow emergency medical and humanitarian aid into the country in order to ease the economic and health crisis the island is experiencing. The current emergency is a result of the ongoing US blockade, an additional 243 sanctions imposed by…
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Díaz-Canel speech to the people of Cuba
Source: CubaDebate (spanish) | Click here for original article Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s speech to the Cuban people on Sunday 11 July: We have been honest, we have been transparent, we have been clear and at every moment we have been explaining to our people the complexities of the current moments. I remind you that…
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United States diplomat responds to British MP on US blockade policy
Yael Lempert, US Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires to the United Kingdom, has responded on behalf of the US Government to a letter calling for a change in US Cuba policy from Grahame Morris MP for Easington and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba. In May, Mr Morris wrote to…
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Breaking the Blockade 3: Reactions to the 2021 UN vote online meeting
Join us live from New York to discuss the results of the latest United Nations General Assembly vote with Ana Silvia Rodríguez, Cuba’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN On 23 June 2021 the United Nations General Assembly voted for the 29th time on Cuba’s resolution calling for an end to the US blockade. In…
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Oxfam Cuba and US organisations release joint statement on US vote at the UN
Source: CDA | Click here for original article On 24 June the Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA), The Washington Office on Latin America, MEDICC, Cuban Americans for Engagement and Oxfam issued a joint statement on the US vote to maintain the blockade at the Untied Nations on 23 June: Yesterday’s statement by the…
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US isolated at UN blockade vote: 184 v 2
“Like the virus the blockade suffocates and kills and it must stop.”Bruno Rodriguez, Cuban Foreign Minister The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has once again overwhelmingly voted in favour of Cuba’s resolution demanding the end of the US blockade. In a strong show of support for the island, 184 countries voted in favour, and only…
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Cuba's updated report on the impact of the US blockade to the UN
Source: MINREX | Click here for original article In advance of the 2021 United Nations General Assembly vote on the US blockade, Cuba has presented an addendum to their 2019 report, which covers the period from April – December 2020. Updated addendum to the Secretary General´s Report on resolution 74/7 of the United Nations General…
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Cuba says Abdala vaccine 92.28% effective against coronavirus
Source: Reuters | Click here for original article Cuba announced on 21 June that its three-shot Abdala vaccine against the coronavirus had proved 92.28% effective in last-stage clinical trials. The announcement came just days after the government said another homegrown vaccine, Soberana 2, had proved 62% effective with just two of its three doses. “Hit…
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Why this year’s UN vote on Cuba embargo is more urgent than ever
Source: Candian Dimension | Click here for original article Will Joe Biden finally listen to the united voice of the world? On June 23, the United Nations General Assembly will vote to condemn the six-decade-long United States embargo of Cuba. Again. The world has been doing this since 1992. In 2019, 187 countries supported the…