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The Alan Gross case: Could 12 dozen = 5?*

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 31 August 2010

by Saul LandauSomeone, perhaps the protagonist himself, made a mistake -- perhaps an “oversight,” as Washington bureaucrats label their errors. Alan Gross, on a mission for his company (DAI) working for USAID (United States Agency for International Development) solicited a tourist visa to travel to Cuba for the purpose of ... read more

Terrorism against Cuba speaking tour 13-24 September 2010

Campaign News | Wednesday, 25 August 2010

London, Derby, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Cardiff, BrightonThis September, a new book which gives a voice to the thousands of Cuban victims of terrorism will be launched during a CSC speaking tour by Canadian author Keith Bolender‘Voices from the other side: An oral history of Terrorism against Cuba’, deals with ... read more

Terrorism against Cuba speaking tour 13-24 September 2010

Campaign News | Wednesday, 25 August 2010

International Transport Federation pass motion in support of Cuba

Campaign News | Thursday, 19 August 2010

Report by Greg Hewitt, CSC executive member and RMTReport from the 42nd International Transport Federation Mexico City - 5 - 12 August 2010Amid the great upheavals in the Mexican government and it’s attacks on the trade unions of Mexico, in particular, the out of hand, sacking of 44 thousand electricity ... read more

Judge criticises US over 'soft' fine for Barclays Bank

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 18 August 2010

by Andrew Clark in New York for The GuardianWashington court criticises 'sweetheart deal' and $298m fine for bank that flouted international sanctionsA judge has attacked the US government for striking a "sweetheart deal" with Barclays to settle criminal charges that the British bank flouted international sanctions by doing clandestine business ... read more

U.S. Said to Plan Easing Rules for Travel to Cuba

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 18 August 2010

The Obama administration is planning to expand opportunities for Americans to travel to Cuba, the latest step aimed at encouraging more contact between people in both countries, while leaving intact the decades-old embargo against the island’s Communist government, according to Congressional and administration officials.The officials, who asked not to be ... read more

Visiting Gerardo in prison

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 18 August 2010

by Danny Glover and Saul LandauFrom the Ontario California airport some 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with expectant amateur gamblers and loaded big rigs climb and descend the mountains where the Angeles and San Bernadino National ... read more

Amnesty International urges Obama not to extend blockade law

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 17 August 2010

For the second consecutive year, Amnesty International, global advocacy group for human rights, is calling on President Obama not to extend the Trading With the Enemy Act with respect to Cuba. Such a step would not amend or repeal the embargo, but "would surely be welcomed by many U.S. citizens ... read more

Cuba has trained over 8,000 physicians from 54 nations

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 17 August 2010

By Miguel Jose Maury for the Cuban News AgencyMore than 8,500 youngsters from 54 nations, including the United States, have been trained in Cuba by way of the project of Havana’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in its six graduations.Dr. Juan Carrizo, Rector of the ELAM, told ACN that, from ... read more

Haiti healthcare group meets in Havana

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 17 August 2010

The tripartite group in charge of rebuilding Haiti’s healthcare system met in Havana Wednesday, to talk about details of the $650 million program.At their fourth meeting since establishing the cooperation, health officials from Haiti, Brazil and Cuba toured a policlinic in the Vedado suburb of Havana and visited the Instituto ... read more

Barclays fined $298m for sanction

News from Cuba | Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Barclays faces penalty from US authorities for handling covert financial transactions involving banks in Cuba, Iran and LibyaBarclays has been fined $298m by US authorities for breaking internation sanctions. Photograph: Kevin Coombs/ReutersBarclays is to pay $298m (£190m) in fines to the US authorities for "knowingly and willfully" violating international sanctions ... read more

Christmas Actions for the Miami Five

Campaign News | Thursday, 12 August 2010

Take action from Friday 10 DecemberTo mark the United Nations International Day on Human Rights, from Friday 10 December CSC is asking all supporters of the Miami Five to CALL, FAX and EMAIL the US Governmentto demand that President Obama free these five Cuban men unjustly imprisoned in the United ... read more

Gerardo Hernandez praises Danny Glovers solidarity

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Cuban antiterrorist fighter Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo praised U.S. actor Danny Glover's gestures of solidarity toward him and his four comrades, unfairly imprisoned in the United States since September 1998.Glover, who visited the federal prison of Victorville, in California on Sunday, has made notable contributions to telling the truth about the ... read more

Cuba Solidarity Campaign job vacancies

Campaign News | Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Would you like to work for the Cuba Solidarity Campaign?CSC is looking to recruit an Administrative Officer, a Finance Officer and a Campaigns Officer to join the UK campaign against the US blockade.Part time and full time positions are available. Full details below.Administrative Officer, part time (2 or 3 days ... read more

Fidel Castro addresses parliament after four-year gap

News from Cuba | Saturday, 7 August 2010

Fidel Castro outlined the "immensely higher price" of a warFidel Castro, the former Cuban leader, has delivered his first speech to the national assembly since resigning over ill health four years ago.The chamber erupted into applause at the sight of Mr Castro, dressed in his familiar olive-green fatigues but without ... read more

Cuba Rejects Inclusion on US List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

News from Cuba | Friday, 6 August 2010

from the Cuban News AgencyCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla strongly rejected on Thursday the inclusion of Cuba on a US list of state sponsors of terrorism."I strongly reject the inclusion of Cuba on the list of states sponsoring international terrorism. It is a politically motivated act of injustice and ... read more

Lifting the Travel and Trade Restrictions on Cuba Closer than Ever

News from Cuba | Thursday, 5 August 2010

by COHA Research Associate Abigail GriffithSince 1960, Washington has been seeking ways to punish Cuba for its transgressions, real and imagined. The embargo was also meant to force the Cuban leadership, as well as the island’s population to repent for worshipping their communist canons. Fifty years later, the U.S. has ... read more

Gerardo out of ‘hole’

News from Cuba | Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Miami Five prisoner Gerardo Hernandez has been returned to the general prison population following a massive international campaign targeting the US government and prison authorities demanding that he be released from the 3x7ft punishment cell he was confined to on 21 July 2010.Leonard Weinglass, one of the attorneys for the ... read more

URGENT ACTION FOR GERARDO HERNANDEZ - PLEASE ACT NOW

News from Cuba | Sunday, 1 August 2010

[Gerardo released from 'hole' on 03/08/201 thanks to public response to this appeal]Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Miami 5 imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism, is suffering under another punishment from the US government.Since 21 July, Gerardo has been held in the ‘hole’ - a windowless cell of 7x3 ... read more