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Cuba condemns US military aggression against Venezuela

News from Cuba | Friday, 19 September 2025

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MinRex) released the following statement condemning US military aggression against Venezuela The Revolutionary Government condemns the escalation of actions perpetrated by the government of the United States to justify a military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The accumulation and increase of military troops and material ... read more

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

Cuba's latest report on the impact of the blockade published

News from Cuba | Friday, 19 September 2025

On 17 September, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla presented Cuba's annual report on the damage caused by the blockade. The report has been published in advance of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 79/7, titled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba", ... read more

Cuban doctors who participated in internationalist medical missions. Photo: MINSAP Cuba

The US increases pressure on Cuba by targeting its medical brigades

News from Cuba | Thursday, 21 August 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he will sanction officials who have facilitated the implementation of the Cuban brigade program. Cuba has asserted the program will continue. On August 13, the United States launched another attack on Cuba. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that his country would impose visa restrictions ... read more

The Ñico López refinery in Havana

Against Cuba, a Fetid, Arbitrary, and Despotic Obsession

News from Cuba | Thursday, 31 July 2025

In the port of Havana, there is a ship with tons of rice, anchored and waiting to unload. It may not get to unload, because in order to do so, it must receive a signal from the commercial center that hired it, indicating that it has received $60,000 in payment. ... read more

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)

News from Cuba | Thursday, 31 July 2025

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared upon taking office that the Americas were the United States’ sphere of influence and they would ratchet up pressure on a symbol of resistance to that view, socialist Cuba, already reeling from harsh sanctions imposed during the president’s previous term, ... read more

Cuba brings hope to Alzheimer’s patients and their families

News from Cuba | Thursday, 15 May 2025

Dr Lauren Collins reports on the positive results coming from new drugs that the world hears little about because they are developed in Cuba With ageing populations increasingly common around the world, degenerative brain disease is on the increase. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, has a devastating impact ... read more

Pic captions SNTS General Secretary Santiago Badía with colleague in the MEDICUBA warehouse with the latest consignment of aid

Life-saving medical aid arrives in Cuba

News from Cuba | Thursday, 24 April 2025

Rob Miller, CSC director, reports on the latest delivery of Cuba Vive medical aid, and plans for future shipments Two consignments of Cuba Vive medical aid have now arrived in Cuba. An emergency delivery of urgent paediatric supplies, which was sent by plane in January, is already in use in ... read more

Naval blockade of Cuba

News from Cuba | Monday, 14 April 2025

No shipping company was willing to make the direct voyage to the port of Mariel in Cuba for fear of US sanctions, according to a report published by the daily Granma which addressed specific examples of the US blockade of the island. A test container was sent to evaluate the ... read more

Despite appearances, the defunding of USAID is no help to Cuba

News from Cuba | Monday, 14 April 2025

Interviewed on March 2, Cuban Vice-Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío reacted to the Trump administration’s move to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He granted that “some of these [USAID] programs do benefit some countries … [but the agency] has been employed [also] to foment a fake opposition, ... read more

A Cuban walks on a street during a general blackout in Havana, March 14 2025

Cuba restores pockets of electricity after major power outage

News from Cuba | Monday, 17 March 2025

Cuban authorities worked around the clock to restore pockets of electricity back to the country today. This comes after millions of people were left without power on Saturday after a failure of the nation’s electric grid left the island in the dark the previous night. The massive blackout is the fourth in ... read more