The Blockade is Unfair, Unethical, and Illegal
(Interview Catherine Murphy)
4 de mayo del 2020- The North American Catherine Murphy is a sociologist and filmmaker. With the gender in the eye and a long and deep love for Cuba, she looks at us and talks about the women of this island.
"Correct me if I make a lot of mistakes with the language," she says at the end of the interview, and I can't help but smile from this side of the sea and phone, because Catherine was born in the United States, but she speaks "Cuban" almost perfect.
April, 29-Fifty seven British members of parliament have signed a motion in the British Parliament which calls on the British Government to promote international cooperation between the UK and Cuba and urge the Biden administration to normalise relations by removing Cuba from its ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ list and ending the US blockade.
Early Day Motion 1550 on Cuba and the US blockade was formally tabled by Grahame Morris MP and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba on 25 February 2021.
Havana, 23 Mar. Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of epidemiology of the Cuban ministry of public health, affirmed today that despite the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States, Cuba will win the battle against COVID-19, a pandemic that is currently affecting 190 countries and 29 territories.
Directors of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma) offered statements on the work of Cuba in the framework of the present 27 Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, whose motto is Innovation for Sustainable Development. Objective 2030. Ibero-America facing the challenge of the coronavirus.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Thursday ratified his confidence in the international support for the resolution to end the US blockade against Cuba, which will be submitted on June 23.
On his official Twitter account, the foreign minister referred to the future voting of the document at the United Nations General Assembly, where historically an overwhelming majority of countries has rejected Washington's blockade.