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Cuba restores pockets of electricity after major power outage
News from Cuba | Monday, 17 March 2025
Cuban authorities worked around the clock to restore pockets of electricity back to the country today. This comes after millions of people were left without power on Saturday after a failure of the nation’s electric grid left the island in the dark the previous night. The massive blackout is the fourth in ... read more
Cuba sends doctors… And the United States?
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Many people and authorities have spoken out loud and clear in recent hours against the recent measures taken by the United States government, which seek to intimidate this bastion of solidarity: our medical collaboration. And they have done so because, as Fidel said, our country is "capable of sending the ... read more
Cuban women’s struggles on screen and behind the camera
Campaign News | Friday, 7 March 2025
Cuban women won many rights and shaped future Cuban society through their participation in the armed struggle which led to the overthrow of Batista in 1959. Their “revolution within the revolution” sought to reverse the inequalities which existed in the country. Spearheading this transformation was the Federation of Cuban Women ... read more
Trump resumes his crusade against Cuba
News from Cuba | Monday, 3 March 2025
After Joe Biden’s cynical last-minute clemency for Cuba, the new administration has quickly returned to maximum subversive tactics. This socialist island needs our support now more than ever, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS Earlier this month, the 20th Latin America Conference convened under the looming shadow of the new Trump administration.On February 8, ... read more
Screen Cuba tickets on sale now!
Campaign News | Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Tickets have just gone on sale for Screen Cuba: Films to Change the World 2025 which takes place at cinemas in London, Wales, Oxford and other cities next month. This Festival of Cuban cinema will look at the achievements and challenges of Cuban people through the lenses of their filmmakers since ... read more
Latin America Resists: reports and speeches from Adelante:Latin America Conference 2025
Campaign News | Thursday, 13 February 2025
The 20th Latin America conference took place under the shadow of a new Trump administration which had recently deported thousands of people to Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, imposed trade tariffs on Mexico and renewed threats against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Hundreds packed in to Hamilton House on 8 February to hear ... read more
Firmness and Dignity in the Face of the Outrage
News from Cuba | Saturday, 1 February 2025
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs On 31 January 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he communicated to the U.S. Congress the revocation of the suspension of the possibility of filing lawsuits in U.S. courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. Likewise, it approved the reinstatement of the ... read more
Cuba rejects US decision to incarcerate migrants in theGuantanamo Naval Base
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 January 2025
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cuba rejects the decision announced by the President of the United States to use the Guantanamo Naval Base to imprison tens of thousands of migrants he has proposed to forcibly expel. It is a demonstration of the brutality with which that government is acting ... read more
Aleida Guevara speaking dates, London, Liverpool, Sheffield
Campaign News | Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Aleida Guevara March, Cuban paediatrician, committed internationalist and daughter of Cuban revolutionaries Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Aleida March will be speaking in London, Liverpool and Sheffield next week. Tuesday 4 Feb, LONDON, 6.30pm (doors 6.15pm) Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H 9BDPlease book tickets in advance here Wednesday 5 Feb, SHEFFIELD, 7pm ... read more
Cuba stands with Palestine
Campaign News | Monday, 27 January 2025
The Cuban and Palestinian people share a common struggle against colonialism and imperialism, and for self-determination and dignity. Cuba has faced a 63-year-long brutal blockade by the US government to strangle its economy and “bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Palestine has suffered 75 years of ethnic cleansing, occupation, and ... read more
