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US pressures countries to reject Cuban aid during coronavirus pandemic
News from Cuba | Friday, 27 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Cuba has played a leading role in the global fight against the outbreak, sending medical teams and aid to some of the worst-affected countries, including Italy. It has also ... read more
Cuba’s international response to coronavirus could see a thaw in foreign relations – but the US remains stubborn, campaigner says
News from Cuba | Friday, 27 March 2020
THE United States must end its blockade of Cuba in the wake of the international medical aid the socialist country has provided, a campaigner has said. Cuban doctors have been deployed to several countries hit by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic – including Italy, the country with the most deaths from the ... read more
Cuba protests at offensive US statement Cuban doctors fighting COVID-19
News from Cuba | Thursday, 26 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba (MINREX) Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented a Diplomatic note of protest to the United States Government in response ... read more
Corbyn praises Cuba’s ‘inspirational’ coronavirus efforts – part of its longstanding medical solidarity around the world
News from Cuba | Thursday, 26 March 2020
Jeremy Corbyn described the internationalism of Cuban doctors who’ve travelled to Italy to help fight the new coronavirus (Covid-19) “as inspirational”. He did so during his final speech as leader of the Labour Party on 25 March. The BBC previously called Corbyn “a long-time supporter of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign [CSC] ... read more
COVID-19 gives the lie to global health expertise
News from Cuba | Thursday, 26 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak began spreading in Europe and the USA, a chart started circulating online showing ratings from the 2019 Global Health Security Index, ... read more
Cuba welcomes UN demand to suspend sanctions in the face of Covid-19
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 25 March 2020
The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, has welcomed a statement from Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, demanding the suspension US sanctions against Cuba in light of the difficulties faced around the world due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The Minister of Foreign Affairs went on to say ... read more
Amid coronavirus pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil begs for Cuban doctors – after expelling them
News from Cuba | Monday, 23 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the health infrastructure of countries around the world. Desperate to contain the deadly virus, hard-hit countries, including even rich European nations like Italy ... read more
Lula: The Cuban people show the world an example of solidarity
News from Cuba | Monday, 23 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Dear Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba I am writing to tell you of the emotion I felt when I saw the image of Cuban doctors arriving in ... read more
The history of interferon in Cuba, in use today to treat Covid-19
News from Cuba | Monday, 23 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Cuba’s pride in Interferon Alfa 2b is a natural reaction given the international prestige enjoyed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology which produces the medication. Recombinant Human ... read more
Cuban doctors head to Italy to battle coronavirus
News from Cuba | Sunday, 22 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against ... read more
Cuba’s Welcome to a Covid-19-Stricken Cruise Ship Reflects a Long Pattern of Global Humanitarian Commitment
News from Cuba | Saturday, 21 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. On March 12, as a British ocean liner approached the Bahamas with almost 50 passengers and crew displaying symptoms of, or diagnosed with, the coronavirus, many on board ... read more
Cuba Cuba Sends 144 Health Workers to Combat the Covid-19 in Jamaica
News from Cuba | Saturday, 21 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Cuba has also sent its doctors to Venezuela and Suriname over the last days. Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Saturday announced that his country is sending a medical ... read more
Cuba faces squeeze on food production as US oil sanctions bite
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Justo Rodríguez mashes through the mud, whipping the two oxen that guide his iron plough as it slowly carves a furrow in the dry soil. In normal times ... read more
What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world — and how Cuba came out on top
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 18 March 2020
A British cruise ship in distress this week turned to the US government for help and was refused In a sign of true global solidarity, Cuba today allowed MS Braemer, a British cruise ship, to dock on its shores despite having at least five confirmed coronavirus cases on board and another ... read more
El Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores británico, Dominic Raab, agradece a Cuba por la asistencia al coronavirus
Campaign News | Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Dominic Raab, el Secretario de Estado de Asuntos Exteriores y de la Commonwealth del Reino Unido, agradeció hoy al Gobierno cubano en el parlamento por su ayuda con el crucero británico MS Braemar, que tenía pasajeros con infecciones por coronavirus. Hizo la declaración ministerial a parlamentarios hoy en el parlamento en ... read more
PRESS RELEASE: Dominic Raab thanks Cuba for coronavirus assistance
Campaign News | Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Dominic Raab, the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, thanked the Cuban Government today in parliament for their assistance with the stricken British cruise ship ... read more
CNN - Cuba is repurposing factories to produce face masks
News from Cuba | Monday, 16 March 2020
The communist-run island's government has said that a textile factory in Sanctí Spriritus, Cuba, is producing face masks with the aim of protecting people from the coronavirus, instead of making school uniforms and other items. Masks have become increasingly hard to find in many countries hard hit by the outbreak of ... read more
Cuba gives permission for cruise ship carrying COVID-19 patients to dock citing solidarity and health as a human right
News from Cuba | Monday, 16 March 2020
A British cruise ship carrying five passengers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is to dock in Cuba after being turned away by other countries. The MS Braemar, which is carrying six hundred passengers, most of whom are British, had been stranded at sea for two days while trying ... read more
BioCubaFarma Guarantees Production of Drugs for COVID-19
News from Cuba | Sunday, 15 March 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Interferon Alpha 2B, produced in Cuba, as well as another group of medications, are part of the protocol to care for patients with the virus. The Cuban pharmaceutical industry ... read more
Cuba uses wave energy to support recovery of coastal ecosystem
News from Cuba | Friday, 6 March 2020
Cayo Coco, Ciego de Ávila. – A team of specialists from Cuba and Mexico has been able to show how a wave amplifier system can enhance a lagoon’s water exchange with the open sea, restore indicators of environmental health, and recover such coastal bodies of water in a short time, ... read more
