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No More Western Union Money to Cubans
News from Cuba | Friday, 28 February 2020
The remittance company Western Union suspended on Wednesday financial transfers to Cuba, except those from the United States, as a result of the increase in sanctions by Washington. Last month the company announced that due to particular problems with the service that operates remittances from countries outside the United States to ... read more
Cuba denounces U.S. unilateralism as a threat to human rights around the world
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 26 February 2020
"Unfortunately, the unilateralism of the United States undermines the promotion and protection of human rights of everyone on the planet," stated Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on Tuesday in Geneva. Speaking during the High Level Segment of the 43rd ordinary session of the Human Rights Council, he added that neoliberal ... read more
Russia and Cuba sign largest contract in recent history and Putin accepts Diaz-Canel’s invitation to visit Cuba
News from Cuba | Friday, 21 February 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the invitation of his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel to visit our country, Russian Ambassador to Havana Andrei Guskov told Sputnik. The date for the trip "will be studied in terms of the head of state’s agenda, along with other high-level bilateral contacts," Guskov added. During his trip ... read more
US prevents medical supplies from reaching Cuba
News from Cuba | Monday, 17 February 2020
The U.S. blockade has affected the Cuban Health services by cutting the supplies entering the island natio, the Director of Trade for the MediCuba Company S.A., Solainy Fajardo said in a statement on Monday. In an interview with local newspaper Juventud Rebelde, the functionary said that Cuba is compelled ... read more
Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus
News from Cuba | Friday, 14 February 2020
Since Jan. 25, the ChangHeber Company located in Changchun city has been producing the famous Cuban antiviral, which is one of 30 medicines chosen by the National Health Commission for its potential to cure respiratory diseases. Currently, IFNrec is applied against HIV-related infections, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, genital warts, and hepatitis types ... read more
The Internet Is Widely Accessible in Cuba. Why Is the US Insisting It Isn’t?
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Freedom House, a conservative think tank, argues that the Cuban government keeps the country technologically backward and censors dissident websites as part of repressing political dissent. “Cuba remains one of the world’s least connected and most repressive environments for information and communication technologies,” according to a Freedom House report on internet ... read more
Trump puts Cuban doctors in firing line as heat turned up on island economy
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 11 February 2020
After US allies expel foreign health missions, Havana warns that patients will pay the highest price for campaign against its scheme A Cuban medical programme that has helped some of the world’s poorest communities has become the latest target of the Trump administration’s escalating attempts to pressure Havana’s faltering economy. Dubbed “Cuban ... read more
Cuban rivers free from pollution thanks to green farming
News from Cuba | Thursday, 6 February 2020
UBA’s rivers are running clean, with low levels of fertiliser pollution, thanks to decades of sustainable farming, according to a joint scientific study published in the journal Nature on Tuesday. Teams from the University of Vermont in the United States and the Cienfuegos Centre for Environmental Studies in Cuba, led by ... read more
Spanish CEO barred from US over his company’s Cuba interests
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 5 February 2020
A major Spanish hotel chain said Wednesday that the U.S. State Department informed the CEO he is barred from entering the United States because of his company’s business interests in Cuba. Meliá Hotels International S.A. said in a statement it believes more than 50 other companies have received similar notifications, but ... read more
Cuba's Havana Club rum faced with gauntlet of US sanctions
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 5 February 2020
"The Havana Club liquid is 100 percent Cuban, everything originates in Cuba," he said. However, "the cases, bottles, labels, corks, we have to import them and at any moment that can be difficult." Those difficulties, for example, come when a "provider tells us that he can't sell to us any more, (or) ... read more
Miami sees a return to Cold War cultural hard line on Cuba
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 4 February 2020
Platinum-selling reggaeton act Gente de Zona were barred from a New Year’s Eve concert in a Miami park. The mayor of Miami declared another Cuban singer persona non grata and her concert in a private club was cancelled. Fellow artists Jacob Forever y El Micha were shut out of a ... read more
