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Screen Cuba, 16-29 March 2025 - Tickets on sale now!
Campaign News | Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Screen Cuba is a UK film festival which aims to celebrate the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 Revolution, and present films rarely screened in the UK. With a range of directors and diverse themes, it features inspiring shorts, ground-breaking ... read more
Latin America Resists: reports and speeches from Adelante:Latin America Conference 2025
Campaign News | Thursday, 13 February 2025
The 20th Latin America conference took place under the shadow of a new Trump administration which had recently deported thousands of people to Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, imposed trade tariffs on Mexico and renewed threats against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Hundreds packed in to Hamilton House on 8 February to hear ... read more
Firmness and Dignity in the Face of the Outrage
News from Cuba | Saturday, 1 February 2025
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs On 31 January 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he communicated to the U.S. Congress the revocation of the suspension of the possibility of filing lawsuits in U.S. courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. Likewise, it approved the reinstatement of the ... read more
Cuba rejects US decision to incarcerate migrants in theGuantanamo Naval Base
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 January 2025
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cuba rejects the decision announced by the President of the United States to use the Guantanamo Naval Base to imprison tens of thousands of migrants he has proposed to forcibly expel. It is a demonstration of the brutality with which that government is acting ... read more
Aleida Guevara speaking dates, London, Liverpool, Sheffield
Campaign News | Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Aleida Guevara March, Cuban paediatrician, committed internationalist and daughter of Cuban revolutionaries Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Aleida March will be speaking in London, Liverpool and Sheffield next week. Tuesday 4 Feb, LONDON, 6.30pm (doors 6.15pm) Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H 9BDPlease book tickets in advance here Wednesday 5 Feb, SHEFFIELD, 7pm ... read more
Cuba stands with Palestine
Campaign News | Monday, 27 January 2025
The Cuban and Palestinian people share a common struggle against colonialism and imperialism, and for self-determination and dignity. Cuba has faced a 63-year-long brutal blockade by the US government to strangle its economy and “bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Palestine has suffered 75 years of ethnic cleansing, occupation, and ... read more
Cuban statement on removal from US State Sponsors of Terrorism list
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The United States takes steps in the right direction, but the blockade remains in force. Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba The United States takes steps in the right direction, but the blockade remains in force. Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba On January 14, 2025, the government ... read more
The fight is just beginning - CSC statement on Cuba's removal from the US 'State Sponsors of Terrorism' list
Campaign News | Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The Biden administration’s decision to remove Cuba from the US’ State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list is welcome, but it comes four years too late and critically does nothing to end the 63-year blockade – the fundamental cause of shortages and hardship for the Cuban people. In January 2021, Donald Trump ... read more
Cuba joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Cuba has officially declared its intention to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the court announced yesterday. The case concerns the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Gaza. Under Article 63 of the ICJ ... read more
Fernando González, President of ICAP: “With Trump We Can Expect Even More Aggressiveness”
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 7 January 2025
As the island goes through one of its worst economic crises, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando Gonzalez, believes that international solidarity is now “more essential than ever.” Hurricanes, earthquakes, economic crisis and soon the return of the extreme right-wing Republican to the White House… ... read more
