Viewing from January 2019
Cuba's strongest tornado in nearly 80 years kills at least four
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 29 January 2019
HAVANA (Reuters) - A rare tornado ripped through Havana late on Sunday, leaving at least four dead and nearly two hundred injured as it tore off roofs, flipped vehicles and reduced some of the buildings in its path to rubble. The twister was the strongest to hit Cuba in nearly 80 ... read more
CSC message to the Cuban people on the Tornado which struck Cuba 27th January
Campaign News | Tuesday, 29 January 2019
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, and on behalf of all our members and affiliated organisations, we would like to express our sincerest condolences to the Cuban people following the terrible effects of the deadly tornado that struck the island including Havana on Sunday 27th ... read more
Díaz-Canel tours areas in Havana hit by tornado
News from Cuba | Monday, 28 January 2019
The President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers tours areas in Havana hit by a tornado last night During the dawn hours, the President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, toured areas in Havana hit by a tornado last night. The municipalities of Regla and Guanabacoa suffered ... read more
UK government highlights ban on British companies complying with United States’ blockade of Cuba
Campaign News | Thursday, 24 January 2019
The UK government makes clear it is illegal for British companies to comply with the US blockade of Cuba Sir Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State for Europe and the Americas, has again made clear the British Government’s opposition to United States extraterritorial blockade policies against Cuba. In a welcome development, his ... read more
Declaration of the Revolutionary Government: The aggression against Venezuela must stop
News from Cuba | Thursday, 24 January 2019
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba strongly condemns and rejects the attempt to impose through a coup a puppet government in the service of the United States in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Government of the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros. The ... read more
Trying to sue socialism: Trump ratchets up the pressure on Cuba
Campaign News | Monday, 21 January 2019
Using a previously unenforced law against trade with Cuba, the Trump administration is heading towards a major showdown with the international community, writes CSC Director, ROB MILLER ON January 16 the US government suspended Title III of the Helms-Burton legislation for 45 days. Title III is the part of the Helms-Burton ... read more
Cuban schools encourage the working class
Campaign News | Saturday, 19 January 2019
NEU delegate ARETHA GREEN notices that through art, literature, and the socialist ideology present in communal learning techniques, all Cuban children are empowered During our six-day National Education Union delegation to Cuba, my overwhelming impression was of the agency and meaningful involvement of students in their own education. This was consistently evident, ... read more
Cuba strongly rejects the threat to activate Title III of the Helms-Burton Act
News from Cuba | Thursday, 17 January 2019
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs On January 16, 2019, the US State Department announced the decision to suspend, only for 45 days, the implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, “in order to conduct a careful review …in light of the national interests of the United States ... read more
U.S. considering allowing lawsuits over Cuba-confiscated properties
News from Cuba | Thursday, 17 January 2019
WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering allowing a law that has been suspended since its creation in 1996 to go into effect, allowing U.S. citizens to sue foreign companies and individuals over property confiscated from them by the Cuban government. The so-called Title III rule forms part of the ... read more
Cuba Denounces Attempt to Reactivate US Brain-Drain Program
News from Cuba | Thursday, 17 January 2019
President Diaz-Canel criticised the move by senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez to reactivate the Bush-era strategy. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has condemned the call by two U.S. lawmakers of Cuban origin to reactivate the 'brain-drain' program established by George W. Bush and revoked during the administration of Barack Obama. “They’re trying ... read more
Cycle Cuba Challenge 2018
Campaign News | Friday, 11 January 2019
"The real highlights were meeting the Cuban people, doctors and medics, teachers and students, trade unionists and local community organisers." Seeing Cuba from a bicycle seat is a unique experience. It is the best way to see this most fantastic of countries up close. The support was terrific and the Cuban ... read more
Cuba closes 2018 with the lowest infant mortality rate in its history
News from Cuba | Thursday, 10 January 2019
For the second year in a row, the country reached the end of 2018 with the lowest infant mortality rate in its history, at 4.0 per thousand live births We have expected the same news every January for several decades. At the beginning of each New Year, we are once again ... read more
Decolonized Cuba? Challenging racial and cultural discrimination through education
Campaign News | Thursday, 10 January 2019
MALCOLM RICHARDS reports back from a recent NEU delegation to Cuba In October 2018, I was selected as one of 25 teachers from across England and Wales to visit Cuba as part of a National Education Union delegation. I was keen to engage in exchanges of pedagogy, cultural exchange and solidarity with ... read more
José Ramón Fernández, Cuban vice president, Bay of Pigs commander, dies at 95
News from Cuba | Monday, 7 January 2019
José Ramón Fernández, a retired Cuban brigadier general who was key in forming the communist country’s new army and commanded Cuban defenses at the Bay of Pigs, died Jan. 6 at 95. Tall and spindly with the rigid posture of a military man, Gen. Fernández served for a time as a ... read more
'Sonic attack' on US embassy in Havana could have been crickets, say scientists
News from Cuba | Monday, 7 January 2019
Noise which saw diplomats complaining of headaches and nausea could be song of Indies short-tailed cricket The US embassy in Havana more than halved its staff in 2017 when diplomats complained of headaches, nausea and other ailments after hearing penetrating noises in their homes and nearby hotels. The mysterious wave of illness ... read more
Work for Granma International in Cuba!
News from Cuba | Saturday, 5 January 2019
An exciting opportunity to work and live in Cuba has arisen with Granma International. The weekly english language newspaper is looking for a translator to start as soon as possible. Granma International Translator - job description and application process The basic work of our three-person team consists of translating articles into English from ... read more
After 60 years of struggle, sacrifices, efforts and victories, we see a free, independent country, the master of its own destiny
News from Cuba | Thursday, 3 January 2019
Speech by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, at the central act to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, in Santiago de Cuba, January 1st, 2019, “Year 61 of the Revolution” (Council of State transcript / GI translation) SANTIAGO ... read more
Raul Castro salutes 60 years of socialist revolution in Cuba
News from Cuba | Thursday, 3 January 2019
CUBAN Communist Party leader Raul Castro saluted 60 years of revolutionary victory on New Year’s Day and warned the United States that attempts to crush the island were doomed to failure. “We are a whole people defending our revolution,” he declared. “We are not intimidated by the language of force or ... read more
A year of events to mark the Cuban Revolution's 60th birthday
Campaign News | Wednesday, 2 January 2019
ON 1 January 1 2019, the Cuban people will celebrate the 60th anniversary of their revolution. Following years of struggle Cubans finally defeated the forces of the brutal dictator Fulgencia Batista and his backers in the United States. Yet as Fidel Castro famously predicted the United States would never cease ... read more
How Cuba helped defeat apartheid in South Africa
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 2 January 2019
AFTER Nelson Mandela was released from 1991 in preparation for the formal interment of the apartheid system, he embarked on a world tour to thank governments and peoples who had supported the South African freedom struggle. In Havana he extolled Fidel Castro as a “source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people.” Later ... read more
