Cuba

Next pandemic, let Cuba vaccinate the world

By Achal Prabhala and Vitor Ido

*Achal Prabhala is the coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa. Vitor Ido is a program officer in the Health, Intellectual Property and Biodiversity Program at the South Centre in Geneva.

Cuba appreciates Latvia's support against the US blockade 

As part of her activities in Riga, the Ambassador of Cuba, Beatriz Parra González, was received by Andžejs Viļumsons, Under-Secretary of State and Political Director of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Cuban journalist Fernández: Cubans are ‘severely upset’ about the U.S. embargo

BY MARK GRUENBERG
The decades-long U.S. embargo of Cuba, plus recent bans added—to satisfy domestic political groups—mean “It’s really difficult to imagine a country without sanctions,” noted Cuban investigative journalist and filmmaker Liz Oliva Fernandez says.

But she’s trying, both in answering questions and in her documentary films.

The Human Cost of Cuba’s Inclusion on the State Sponsor of Terrorism List

by Mariakarla Nodarse Venancio and Alex Bare

Nigerian lawyer Femi Falana in solidarity with the Cuban people 

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of “Proclamation 3447 - Embargo on All Trade with Cuba” by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. Noted Nigerian human rights counsel Dr Femi Falana says it is time to call on all progressive forces in the world to mount pressure on the United States to end these illegal sanctions without any further delay. 

Kingston, Jamaica, February 27, 2022. Directors and members of the "Antonio Maceo" Association of Cuban Residents in Jamaica and other members of the Cuban community joined a caravan of cars this Sunday morning in support of Cuba and against the inhuman economic, commercial and financial blockade maintained by the US government on the Greater Antilles.

Kingston, Jamaica, 28 February 2022. This Sunday morning, Jamaican and Cuban friends residing in Jamaica staged a caravan of cars in support of Cuba and against the inhumane economic, commercial and financial blockade maintained by the US government on Cuba, the Largest Island in the Antilles.

The food and agriculture sectors constitute the bedrock for achieving food security and sovereignty, two goals that are among the priorities of the Cuban government and are directly linked to the implementation of the National Food Sovereignty and Nutrition Education Plan (SAN Plan) and the fulfillment of the goals agreed upon in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Havana, February 21. The United States' economic blockade of Cuba, which to date has cost the country billions of dollars, has prevented an unknown number of foreign companies from investing in Cuba.

This is how Mariluz B’Hammel, director of Trade Policy with North America at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), sees this. She also told Prensa Latina that all the measures of the US blockade have an impact on the entry of foreign capital to Cuba.

Havana, February 21. Cuba currently receives the international solidarity despite the media campaign against the Revolution and the blockade tightened by the United States.

Among the most recent examples of support to the people of the island is the process of collecting health materials organized by the Catalan solidarity platform Defensem Cuba and coordinated by the Committee of Solidarity with Central America of Prat and the Associació Nou Barris de Barcelona, in Prat de Llobregat.