Tag: News from Cuba
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Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’
Source: The Grayzone | Click here for original article Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting for freedom of expression, the San Isidro Movement has become a key weapon in the US government’s assault on the Cuban revolution. “My people need Europe, my people need Europe to point out the abuser,” Yotuel, a…
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Mexican president shows solidarity to Cuba in words and actions
Mexico has sent a shipment of aid to Cuba containing aid to Cuba containing syringes, oxygen tanks and masks along with powered milk, cans of tuna, beans, flour, cooking oil and gasoline. Two naval ships containing the shipment left the Mexican port of Veracruz on Sunday 25 July. Speaking at an event to mark the…
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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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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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French academic urges the US to respect Cuba's sovereignty
Source: Prensa Latina | Click here for original article The French academic and essayist Salim Lamrani today urged the United States government and its president, Joseph Biden, to respect Cuba’s right to self-determination and to live without the blockade. ‘President Biden must listen to the claim of the international community, of his own public opinion,…
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The Only Way to End Economic Hardship in Cuba Is to Lift the US Blockade
Source: Tribune | Click here for original article For 60 years, Cuba has lived under siege from the most powerful nation on earth, denying it basics like food, medicine and building equipment – anyone who cares about economic hardship must call for it to end says FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ In an evidently well-coordinated action, on 11…
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What is happening in Cuba?
Source: Morning Star | Click here for original article Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Miami Five, marching against the US blockade on Sunday ROB MILLER reports on the protests against shortages on the socialist island that have been seized upon by the US as a pretext for intervention when it the US itself that starves…
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Cyber war attacks web portal of Cuban Foreign Ministry
Source: Presna Latina (spanish) | Click here for original article A cyber attack on 11 July compromised the servers of the web portal of the Cuban Foreign Ministry as part of the cyber and communication war against the country, according to a post on the ministry’s official Twitter account. IP addresses located in the United…
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President calls for peace and announces new measures to help ease situation
Source: CubaDebate (spanish) | Click here for original article In the case of medicine shortages and the vaccination programme, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said that by the end of August 60 per cent of the population will be fully vaccinated. Currently 25 per cent had received at least one dose. From September those aged…
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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…