The United Nations votes overwhelmingly to end the US embargo on Cuba
For the 32nd year in a row, the United Nations votes overwhelmingly to end the US embargo on Cuba.
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Cuba to become a BRICS partner state
Cuba, along with 12 other countries, has been approved to become a BRICS partner state. The group, which held its annual summit last week in Kazan, Russia, was created in 2009 to offset Western dominance of international relations and reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar.
How the U.S. Blockade Sabotaged Cuba’s Power Grid w/ Manolo De Los Santos
Manolo De Los Santos, the Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research discusses the total collapse of Cuba’s national power grid that left the country without electricity for several days. De Los Santos explains how the US’s brutal 60-year blockade has sabotaged the island’s power grid.
In Cuba’s Report, US Blockade Comes Off as Weapon of War
Photo by Jeremy Stewardson Cuba’s foreign ministry annually reports on the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba and its recent impact mostly in order to enlighten delegates […]
Nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 different countries call on the US to take Cuba off the “State Sponsor of Terrorism” list
The letter states that the designation “is designed to maximize the suffering of the people of Cuba, strangling its economy, displacing its families, and even […]
Jeffrey Sachs: “If the blockade doesn’t have any effect, lift it”
Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández sits down with Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economics professor. Sachs is a bestselling author, a professor of […]
U.S. Policy Toward Cuba Three Years on from July 11
By Reed Lindsay and Daniel Montero Three years ago this Thursday, thousands of people took the streets in Cuba’s largest anti-government demonstrations in decades. The […]
How the Knowledge Economy and Science Bolster Cuba’s Socialist Revolution
Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing their own very effective Covid-19 vaccines. The achievement stood out among nations of the Global South. […]
Cuba claims it thwarted US-financed terror plot
Nearly three dozen people have been detained over ties to a supposed criminal group operating out of neighboring Florida Cuban authorities have foiled a suspected […]
Cuba subject to illegal blockade imposed by Irish authorities, in defiance of Irish and EU law.
In his last act of aggression against Cuba, former US president Trump added Cuba to a US list of so-called “State Sponsors of Terrorism”. Not a shred of credible evidence supported that decision. His successor, has retained the designation for reasons best known to his minders.
