Viewing from February 2010
BBC broadcasts news reports from Cuba
News from Cuba | Sunday, 28 February 2010
BBC television news broadcast a series of reports from Cuba from 22-26 February 2010. The daily reports which featured on BBC news covered issues such as the US relationship with Cuba, daily life for Cuban families, the Miami Five, Culture and Cuba#s medical diplomacy, including interviews with students at the ... read more
BBC News breaks silence on the Five
News from Cuba | Sunday, 28 February 2010
BBC television news broadcast a rare television news report on the Cuban Five (known as the Miami 5 in the UK) as part of a series of reports from the island on 24 February.The report featured an interview with Miami Five prisoner Rene Gonzalez, and his wife Olga Salanueva who ... read more
Castro 'regrets' death of jailed hunger striker Tamayo
News from Cuba | Thursday, 25 February 2010
From the Morning StarCuban President Raul Castro expressed regret on Wednesday over the death of a Cuban prisoner who had been on hunger strike since December.Mr Castro said: "We took Orlando Zapata Tamayo to Cuba's best hospitals and he died. We very much regret it."Mr Tamayo, who was a member ... read more
New US-free Americas bloc agreed
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Latin American and Caribbean nations have agreed to set up a new regional body without the US and Canada.The new bloc would be an alternative to the Organisation of American States (OAS), the main forum for regional affairs in the past 50 years.Mexico has been hosting a regional summit in ... read more
New address for the Five
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Ramon Labañino are back from Miami. They have been returned to the same prisons where they were before.To write to the Cuban Five, here are their current addressesTo write to Fernando Gonzalez address the envelope as following:Rubén Campa# 58733-004FCI Terre HautePO Box #33Terre Haute, IN ... read more
Cuban media report on UK donations to the Haiti medical brigades
Campaign News | Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Following the Cuba Solidarity Campaign appeal for donations to the Cuban brigades working in Haiti, the Cuban News agency has reported the donation of £12,000 made so far. CSC expects this figure to rise in the coming weeks.If you would like to make a donation to the Medical brigades in ... read more
Cuban media report on UK donations to the Haiti medical brigades
Campaign News | Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Following the Cuba Solidarity Campaign appeal for donations to the Cuban brigades working in Haiti, the Cuban News agency has reported the donation of £12,000 made so far. CSC expects this figure to rise in the coming weeks.If you would like to make a donation to the Medical brigades in ... read more
Spaces on May Day tours to Havana - book now
Campaign News | Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Why not take part in one of CSC’s May Day tours to Cuba which leave at the end of April. Spaces are left on both the May Day Study Tour and the Young Trade Unionists Brigade, both of which include an invitation to participate in Havana’s spectacular May Day Rally ... read more
Celebrating Cuba:Fifty Years of Revolution - photography exhibition
Campaign News | Monday, 22 February 2010
A Cuba50 sponsored eventFifty Years of Revolution - photography exhibitionTuesday 2 - Thursday 4 March 2010, 10am-5pmTuesday 2 March, 5-8pm - Private view and exhibition launchA specially commissioned photographic exhibition by Cuban photographer Alejandro Gortazar.Featuring fifty beautiful photos celebrating Cuba and the lives of the Cuban people over the last ... read more
2010 Festival Volunteers needed!
Campaign News | Monday, 22 February 2010
2010 FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!Tickets for the best music festivals are always in short supply and very expensive, but CSC can help?and it won’t cost you a penny!CSC are looking for volunteers to work as bar staff at some of the world’s greatest music festivals to help raise money for CSC ... read more
US mission in Cuba meets with mercenaries
News from Cuba | Saturday, 20 February 2010
By Dayami Interián García for Prensa LatinaHavana, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) A US delegation that took part in migratory talks with the Cuban government met with mercenaries in this capital, something contrary to the spirit of cooperation and understanding shown by Cuban authorities.After the diplomatic exchange, the US representation called ... read more
US-Cuba immigration talks under cloud of mistrust
News from Cuba | Friday, 19 February 2010
By PAUL HAVEN (AP)HAVANA - The last time U.S. diplomats traveled to Havana, they held secret talks with their Cuban counterparts that were hailed as the most significant in decades. Almost nothing has gone right for U.S.-Cuba relations in the five long months since.When State Department officials sit down with ... read more
Declaration on the Cuban Five of the South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Yesterday, Tuesday February 16, I met with relatives of the five Cuban political prisoners held in US jails for over 11 years. I have had firsthand experience of the drama these families are suffering. I was given the following information as confirmation of what I already had obtained.On June 16th ... read more
Cuba's aid ignored by the media?
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 16 February 2010
By Tom Fawthrop in HavanaAmong the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims.Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck.However, ... read more
Cuba's new Green Revolution
News from Cuba | Monday, 15 February 2010
Cuba Surrounds Towns With Organic Farms to Lessen Dependence on Imported Food, by Marc Frank for Associated PressThe government of Cuba, chronically poor and forced to import most of its food, is fighting back by going green. It is surrounding its urban areas with thousands of organic farms, as part ... read more
New on Youtube - Latin America Conference films
Campaign News | Sunday, 14 February 2010
Watch some of the keynote speakers frm the 2010 conference at Congress HouseYoo can now watch a film about the Latin America 2010 conference together with the full speeches of key speakers including:Esther Armenteros Cardenas, Cuban AmbassadorKen Livingstone, former Mayor of LondonGeorge Galloway, Seamus Milne, author and journalistWatch the latin America ... read more
How Credible Is Human Rights Watch on Cuba?
News from Cuba | Saturday, 13 February 2010
by Tim Anderson for Monthly ReviewIn late 2009 the New York-based group Human Rights Watch published a report titled New Castro, Same Cuba. Based on the testimony of former prisoners, the report systematically condemns the Cuban government as an "abusive" regime that uses its "repressive machinery . . . draconian ... read more
LATIN AMERICA 2010 - Saturday 4 December, TUC Congress House, London, WC1Y
Campaign News | Friday, 12 February 2010
Making a better world possibleThe grandson and biographer of legendary Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino; a member of the National Resistance Front against the Coup in Honduras; a community activist from Venezuela; and the new Cuban ambassador to the UK are just some of the key speakers featuring at this weekend’s ... read more
CNN Lies about Identity of Doctors in Haiti
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 10 February 2010
from Juventud RebeldeOne of the many Cuban doctors currently assisting the Haitian victims of the earthquake granted an interview to the CNN a few days ago and was strangely presented to the public as a Spanish doctor.In a phone conversation with the Juventud Rebelde newspaper, Doctor Carlos Guillen -that is ... read more
No reform but Cuba economy control to ease
News from Cuba | Monday, 8 February 2010
from BBC NewsPresident Raul Castro insists the Cuban revolution is stronger than everCuban President Raul Castro has ruled out large-scale market reforms to revive the communist island's struggling economy.But Mr Castro said the role of the state would be reduced in some areas, with more workers allowed to be self-employed ... read more
Concert for Haiti
Campaign News | Saturday, 6 February 2010
Billy Bragg and Benjamin Zephaniah raise the roof for the people of Haiti‘Fantastically well organised with such short notice and you really did get the message across about the unwavering Cuban medical support for Haiti’ was just one of the responses that the Cuba Solidarity Campaign has received about the ... read more
Haiti's future must lie in its own hands
Campaign News | Tuesday, 2 February 2010
by Natasha Hickan in the Morning StarHaiti and Cuba are separated by just 50 miles of Caribbean Sea, yet even before the earthquake the contrasts for people born in the two countries could not be starker.For many in Latin America, Cuba is a beacon to what human beings can achieve ... read more
New Cuba Solidarity Campaign Haiti briefing
Campaign News | Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Download the leaflet here ... read more
