Viewing from February 2013
Cuban authors speaking tour - London, Leicester, Oxford
Campaign News | Thursday, 28 February 2013
Guest speakers from Cuba: Julia Lydia Calzadilla Nunez (renowned children's author, editor, translator, eye witness of the Revolution) and Jose Alberto Negrin Colina (General Secretary of the Havana branch of the Cultural Workers Union) will be speaking at CSC events in Britain in March. Thursday 7 March, 7pm - OxfordSunday 10 ... read more
Patrick Leahy: Cuba, US Need 'Give And Take'
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 26 February 2013
A senator just back from Cuba says it will require "give and take on both sides" and "quiet negotiation" to secure the release of an American man imprisoned in Cuba.Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont says that Alan Gross isn't going to be released by the Cuban government because of ... read more
Cuba creates four anti-cancer vaccines, media ignores it
Campaign News | Monday, 25 February 2013
By Jo MacLeanThat Cuba has already developed four vaccines or inoculations against different types of cancer is without doubt important news for humanity. The World Health Organisation says each year about 8 million people die from this illness.However, the international mainstream media have almost totally ignored this news.Last year, Cuba ... read more
Cuba creates four anti-cancer vaccines, media ignores it
News from Cuba | Monday, 25 February 2013
By Jo MacLeanThat Cuba has already developed four vaccines or inoculations against different types of cancer is without doubt important news for humanity. The World Health Organisation says each year about 8 million people die from this illness.However, the international mainstream media have almost totally ignored this news.Last year, Cuba ... read more
Raul Castro Gives Closing Speech of Cuban Parliament Session
News from Cuba | Sunday, 24 February 2013
President will retire in 2018, new 10 year terms introducedCuban President Raul Castro gave the closing remarks of the parliamentary session that set up the new National Assembly of People's Power with its new president, and elected the new Council of State.Raul said that upcoming modifications of the country's constitution ... read more
New album of Kirsty MacColl songs launched in support of the Music Fund for Cuba
Campaign News | Friday, 22 February 2013
‘A concert for Kirsty MacColl’ released for the very first timeThe CD, ‘A Concert For Kirsty MacColl’, was recorded live at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on 12 October 2010, the date which would have marked her 51st birthday.The tribute concert was an amazing night. More than 2,000 people packed into ... read more
CSC action inspires unprecedented show of parliamentary support for the Miami Five
Campaign News | Thursday, 14 February 2013
In just a few months, an incredible 125 MPs have signed Early Day Motion 497 - Humanitarian Appeal for Visitation Rights for Wives of the Miami Five - in what is already the most successful parliamentary action ever in support of the Miami Five.Ten years ago, 112 MPs signed an ... read more
Cuba on the way to turning cancer into a chronic disease
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 5 February 2013
from PravdaDespite the demonic and inhumane blockade against Cuba for decades, this Caribbean nation has been heroically developing and forging new methodologies in public healthcare using the resources available, and also, exporting its wisdom to developing countries, providing excellent healthcare and educational services.Cuba's "strong primary healthcare system" is referred to ... read more
Fidel Castro, voting, says Chavez
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 5 February 2013
by Peter Orsi for APVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez is getting "much better" after undergoing a fourth cancer operation in December, according to the president' s friend and retired revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in comments published Monday in Cuban newspapers.Castro spoke to official media Sunday when he appeared at a Havana ... read more
High turn out for general elections
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 5 February 2013
90% turnout in general and provincial electionsOn Sunday 3 February, Cubans went to the polls to elect 1,269 delegates to their 15 regional provincial assemblies and 612 MPs to the National Assembly. Speaking during a press conference, Alina Balseiro, president of the National Electoral Commission said that the average age of ... read more
Best Time for U.S.- Cuba Rapprochement Is Now
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 5 February 2013
COHA Director Larry Birns and COHA Senior Research Fellow Frederick B. MillsThe Obama Administration should be prepared to take, in quick progression, three important initial steps to trigger a speedy rapprochement with Cuba: immediately phase out the embargo, free the Cuban five, and remove Havana from the spurious State Department ... read more
