Category: News from 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…