Viewing from April 2019
Cuba's Internationalism - Medical brigade speaking tour 2019
News from Cuba | Sunday, 28 April 2019
As part of the Cuba60 celebrations, CSC is very proud and honoured to be bringing Dr Enmanuel Vigil Fonseca, a volunteer in Cuba’s Henry Reeve Medical Brigade, to Britain in June 2018. Here he speaks about his experiences working in emergency situations from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to ... read more
US takes its blockade of Cuba to unprecedented levels
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 23 April 2019
The Trump administration has announced the most severe economic sanctions against Cuba since the blockade was first introduced in 1962. Speaking in Miami on 17 April, the 58th anniversary of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, National Security Advisor John Bolton announced the end of virtually all non-family travel to the ... read more
NEU helps break the blockade with thousands of instruments sent to Cuba
Campaign News | Thursday, 18 April 2019
The first ever National Education Union conference took place in Liverpool in April, and delegates particpated in three fantastic actions to show solidarity with the Cuban people against the US blockade. While the US government was announcing measures to intensify the blockade, the UK's largest teaching union hosted Maida Bisset Despaigne, ... read more
Cuba elected member of the United Nations Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 17 April 2019
New York, April 17, 2018. Yesterday afternoon, at the Coordination and Management Segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Cuba was elected a member of the United Nations Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations for the period 2019-2022, being the most voted country of the Latin America and the Caribbean region ... read more
Cuba denounces new US measures
News from Cuba | Sunday, 14 April 2019
On 11 April, the US Vice President Mike Pence told the United Nations Security Council that the United States would soon “announce additional action to hold Cuba accountable for its malign influence in Venezuela.” The threat came a week after the Trump administration introduced sanctions against two shipping companies that transport ... read more
Cuba working hard for the return of its doctors kidnapped in Kenya
News from Cuba | Sunday, 14 April 2019
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the government was working tirelessly for the return of two doctors kidnapped in Kenya. 'Cuba is working tirelessly for the safe return of Assel and Landy, our doctors kidnapped in Kenya,' the president wrote on his Twitter account. 'With them and their loved ones we ... read more
President: Helms-Burton Act Reinforces Economic Siege of Cuba
News from Cuba | Sunday, 14 April 2019
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Saturday at the People''s Power National Assembly (Parliament) that the Helms-Burton Act reinforces the economic siege of the Caribbean island. Washington is trying to activate that law aimed at taking us back to the beginning of history when we were a slave nation of ... read more
Diaz-Canel Denounces US Escalation of Aggressiveness
News from Cuba | Sunday, 14 April 2019
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday denounced at the People''s Power National Assembly (Parliament) the escalation of the United States'' aggressiveness against Latin American countries in its effort to build an alternative to savage capitalism. When speaking at Havana's Convention Center at the closing of the third extraordinary session of the ... read more
Cuban Parliament Approves Declaration Condemning Helms-Burton Act
News from Cuba | Sunday, 14 April 2019
The People''s Power National Assembly (Parliament) on Saturday condemned the hostile policy by the Government of the United States against the Caribbean island and the Helms-Burton Act, a genocidal extraterritorial project against the Cuban people. The president of the International Relations Commission, Yolanda Ferrer, read the document that ratifies total commitment ... read more
TUCBlack Workers in solidarity with Cuba
Campaign News | Saturday, 13 April 2019
Roger McKenzie, UNISON Assistant General Secretary, chaired the CSC fringe meeting at the TUC Black Workers conference in April which took place shortly after the Trump administration had announced measures to tighten the blockade. Updating delegates on the new measures, he reminded them that despite their challenges the Cuban people ... read more
Play for Cuba – the final send off
Campaign News | Thursday, 11 April 2019
More than 600 instruments have been collected for the Play for Cuba appeal. They include 180 guitars, three double basses, around 80 violins, violas and cellos, drums and brass and wind instruments. An amazing baby grand piano - worth thousands of pounds - has been donated and is destined for ... read more
Pompeo extends ban on U.S. lawsuits against foreign firms in Cuba
News from Cuba | Thursday, 4 April 2019
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday extended by two weeks to May 1 a ban on U.S. lawsuits against foreign firms doing business in Cuba. He did not give a reason for the extension. The administration of President Donald Trump announced on March 4 it would allow ... read more
Spain rejects possible U.S. lawsuits against foreign firms in Cuba
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 3 April 2019
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell has told the U.S. administration that Spain is concerned about Washington’s potential decision to allow U.S. citizens to sue foreign firms doing business in Cuba, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The U.S. decision relates the use of property confiscated by the Cuban ... read more
The honour of helping Mozambique
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 2 April 2019
A medical brigade from the Henry Reeve Contingent, specialised in disaster situations and serious epidemics, is saving lives in this sister African country Damage caused by Hurricane Idai in Mozambique has once again mobilised Cuban solidarity, with a medical brigade from the Henry Reeve Contingent, specialised in disaster situations and serious ... read more
