Viewing from October 2014
First UK ministerial visit to Cuba in 10 years
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 October 2014
Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire has become the first UK Minister to visit Cuba in almost ten years.According to a FCO press release issued this week "His time in the country will include meetings with senior government figures and others to discuss bilateral relations including trade and investment, tourism and ... read more
US attends Ebola meeting in Cuba called by leftist bloc
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 October 2014
From Reuters News AgencyUS government officials joined health experts from throughout the Americas at an Ebola conference in Cuba on Wednesday, the latest show of cooperation between the historic adversaries on fighting the disease.The meeting organised by ALBA, a bloc of leftist-governed countries, aims to coordinate a regional strategy on ... read more
The UN vote - transcripts of the Cuban and the US interventions
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 October 2014
SPEECH BY CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER BRUNO RODRIGUEZ PARILLA AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON OCTOBER 28THMr. President;Distinguished Permanent Representatives;Delegates all;The United Nations General Assembly will consider today, for the twenty third time, this issue which is so important for the international community, because it has to do with International Law, which ... read more
World votes against blockade for 23rd consecutive year
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 28 October 2014
On 28 October 2014, the United Nations General Assembly voted for the 23rd consecutive year on a resolution calling for an end to the illegal blockade of Cuba. Just as in 2013, 188 countries voted for an end to the blockade with just the US and Israel in support.Cuba presented ... read more
The Shifting Politics of Cuba Policy
News from Cuba | Saturday, 25 October 2014
New York Times editorialAnother New York Times editorial questions the US government's policy towards Cuba..."There was a time, not too long ago, when any mainstream politician running for statewide or national office in Florida had to rattle off fiery rhetoric against the Cuban government and declare unquestioning faith that the ... read more
Cuba calling: what this small island can teach the world about disease control
News from Cuba | Thursday, 23 October 2014
West Africa needs what Cuba has: a well-trained, coordinated healthcare system. Anything less and Ebola wins says Conner Gorry What can the governments of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia learn from Raul Castro’s health policies? Raul Castro and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the summit on Ebola in Havana Guatemala, Pakistan, Indonesia, ... read more
Cuba’s Impressive Role on Ebola
News from Cuba | Monday, 20 October 2014
By the New York Times Editorial BoardCuba is an impoverished island that remains largely cut off from the world and lies about 4,500 miles from the West African nations where Ebola is spreading at an alarming rate. Yet, having pledged to deploy hundreds of medical professionals to the front lines ... read more
Fidel Castro calls on US to work with Cuba to fight Ebola
News from Cuba | Sunday, 19 October 2014
On 17 October, former President of Cuba, Fidel Castro wrote an article saying that Cuba was willing to cooperate with the US in the fight against Ebola. Read the whole article here:The Time of Duty Has Come by Fidel Castro"Our country did not take a single minute to give a ... read more
Kerry acknowledges Cuba role in Ebola fight
News from Cuba | Friday, 17 October 2014
from AFPSecretary of State John Kerry paid a rare US compliment to Cuba on Friday, acknowledging the communist island nation's role in the global fight against Ebola in West Africa."Already we are seeing nations large and small stepping up in impressive ways to make a contribution on the frontlines," Kerry ... read more
US Blockade: Keep US Medicines Out of the Reach of Cuban Children
News from Cuba | Friday, 17 October 2014
Cuban children are among the innocent victims of the over-50-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, whose human damage is not possible to assess, said a Cuban diplomat at the United Nations.Speaking at the Third Commission of the UN General Assembly diplomat Jairo Rodriguez said that health services for ... read more
Russia Today TV interviews Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Campaign News | Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Interviews on Ebola crisis and Che GuevaraBernard Regan, CSC National Secretary featured in a major interview with George Galloway MP on his show Sputnik broadcast on 6th October on Russia Today. The programme looked in depth at the Cuban response to the Ebola crisis and Cuba’s longstanding history of international ... read more
Che's daughter to speak at Miami Five Vigil this Wednesday
Campaign News | Friday, 10 October 2014
Aleida Guevara - paediatrician, medical mission veteran and daughter of Che - will speak at CSC's annual Candlelight Vigil for the Miami Five outside the US Embassy, 24 Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 2LQ on Wednesday 3 December 2014.The vigil marks 16 years since the arrest of the Five, and Aleida ... read more
Cuban Doctors at the Forefront of Ebola Battle in Africa
News from Cuba | Monday, 6 October 2014
With risks growing that Ebola could flare on foreign shores, the U.S. is calling for nations to dispatch doctors and nurses to West Africa, where thousands of lives are on the line. Few have heeded the call, but one country has responded in strength: Cuba.In the weeks since U.S. President ... read more
Cuban medics available to staff UK Ebola facilities in Sierra Leone
News from Cuba | Thursday, 2 October 2014
Cuba and UK cooperating to fight Ebola crisisThe Cuban deputy minister of Public health Mrs Marcia Cobas Ruiz was a special guest at the international conference ‘defeating Ebola in Sierra Leone’ held in London on Thursday.In her key note address she offered the support of the Cuban medical contingent which ... read more
BBC: Henry Kissinger 'considered Cuba air strikes' in 1976
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 1 October 2014
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew up plans to "smash Cuba" with air strikes nearly 40 years ago, government papers obtained by researchers show. He was angered by Cuba's 1976 military intervention in Angola and was considering retaliation if Cuban forces were deployed elsewhere in Africa. The information comes from documents ... read more
