Viewing from April 2024
Why is the US still sanctioning Cuba? CSC Director Rob Miller takes part in TV debate on Cuba
Campaign News | Friday, 19 April 2024
Cuba Solidarity Campaign Director Rob Miller was invited to speak on TRT World’s The Newsmakers programme to discuss current US policy towards the island and why President Biden hasn't returned to the Obama-era policies. He was joined by Candian journalist Keith Bolender and Sebastian Arcos Associate, Director of the Cuban Research ... read more
CSC Statement on ongoing US attempts to destabilise Cuba, March 2024
Campaign News | Tuesday, 2 April 2024
The United States government has pursued a policy of economic warfare to generate unrest in Cuba for 64 years. If it had genuine concerns for the human rights and welfare of the Cuban people it would end the blockade and remove Cuba from the ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’ list now. On ... read more
Obama opened a door between Cuba and the US. Why is Biden closing it again?
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 27 March 2024
n 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in ... read more
How can socialist films reach audiences?
Campaign News | Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Tania Delgado was, until last year, vice president of ICAIC, the Cuban film Institute, and she is justifiably proud of its history. Founded on March 24 1959, in the immediate aftermath of the revolution, it was the first cultural organisation created in the new state, demonstrating the high esteem in ... read more
U.S. intelligence operation against Cuban finances revealed.
News from Cuba | Thursday, 7 March 2024
The U.S. intelligence community is carrying out a strategy to distort Cuban finances, as part of the U.S. economic war against the Caribbean nation. Recently leaked information shows a series of maneuvers carried out to induce inflation within the Cuban market. The strategy is divided into four stages: shortages, induced inflation, ... read more
Faced with the tightening of the blockade, Cuba expands its cooperation with the World Food Programme
News from Cuba | Thursday, 7 March 2024
Cuba has maintained a long-standing relationship with the World Food Programme (WFP), from which it has received support and response in situations of natural disasters and other emergencies that have impacted the country. This relationship began in 1963, with an emergency operation that provided assistance to the people most affected by ... read more
UN experts warn unilateral designation of States as Sponsors of Terrorism negatively impact human rights
News from Cuba | Friday, 9 February 2024
UN experts* have urged the United States to review its domestic framework that triggers specific sanctions against States designated as Sponsors of Terrorism (SST). Currently four countries – the Republic of Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPR Korea), the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Republic – ... read more
"The world of the imperialists is dying" - Latin America Conference 2024
Campaign News | Wednesday, 31 January 2024
In an era of increasing global uncertainty and overlapping crises, Latin America continues to show that building a better world is possible. In recent years, the continent has shifted decisively to the left, with progressive governments being elected in Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras and even Colombia, once the bastion of ... read more
Solidarity with Palestine
News from Cuba | Monday, 29 January 2024
CSC Campaigns Officer Tariq Anderson looks at the political and practical support that Cuba has offered PalestineRevolutionary Cuba has always been unwavering in its support for the Palestinian struggle, and since last October Cuban leaders, including President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla, have been forthright in their ... read more
Thousands sign OffTheList letter to US ambassador
Campaign News | Monday, 29 January 2024
More than a thousand people have signed a letter to the US ambassador calling for Cuba to be removed from the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Please join them by adding your name today. On 30 November 2023 the US State Department reiterated its designation of Cuba as a ‘State ... read more
