Viewing News From Cuba from February 2025
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
Cuban statement on removal from US State Sponsors of Terrorism list
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The United States takes steps in the right direction, but the blockade remains in force. Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba The United States takes steps in the right direction, but the blockade remains in force. Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba On January 14, 2025, the government ... read more
Cuba joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Cuba has officially declared its intention to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the court announced yesterday. The case concerns the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Gaza. Under Article 63 of the ICJ ... read more
Fernando González, President of ICAP: “With Trump We Can Expect Even More Aggressiveness”
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 7 January 2025
As the island goes through one of its worst economic crises, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando Gonzalez, believes that international solidarity is now “more essential than ever.” Hurricanes, earthquakes, economic crisis and soon the return of the extreme right-wing Republican to the White House… ... read more
The United States opens up the way to the theft of Cuban trademarks
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba rejects, in the strongest possible terms, the so called “No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act”, recently enacted by President Biden, which was promoted by the anti-Cuban sectors in ... read more
UN General Assembly overwhelmingly condemns the US blockade and calls for its end
News from Cuba | Saturday, 9 November 2024
For the 32nd consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted to condemn the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba and, once again, it has done so by an overwhelming majority. 187 countries voted in favour of Cuba’s resolution on the necessity of ending the blockade, with just ... read more
Cuba’s economic crisis: US sanctions and the problem of overcompliance
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 29 October 2024
There are two main factors that drive overcompliance with US sanctions: the ambiguity of the regulations, and the severity of the penalties It is well known that US sanctions against Cuba in fact affect not only US nationals, but also trade between Cuba and nationals of third countries. Known as ‘extraterritoriality’, ... read more
CUBA: BLACKOUT AND BLOCKADE
News from Cuba | Thursday, 24 October 2024
Cuba is going through its biggest energy crisis, with practically the entire island and 10 of 11 million inhabitants deprived of electricity. The blackouts that had been occurring with increasing frequency and duration for some time, became a total collapse of the electrical system following the shutdown of its main ... read more
Activists renew call for an end to the US blockade against Cuba as the Caribbean nation suffers electricity blackout
News from Cuba | Monday, 21 October 2024
ACTIVISTS renewed calls today for an end to the 64-year-old US blockade of Cuba after the government said that the restricitions were hampering efforts to fix a massive power cut. About half of the socialist island was plunged into darkness on Thursday evening, followed by all of it the following morning, ... read more
