Viewing News From Cuba from May 2019
New lawsuit against Cuban companies under Helms-Burton
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 22 May 2019
HAVANA, Cuba, May 21 (ACN) A new lawsuit was filed Monday in Miami, Florida, against several Cuban tourism companies under Title III of the controversial Helms-Burton Act, activated by the current U.S. government as part of its policy toward the island.According to Prensa Latina, using information broadcast by CBS and ... read more
Cuba Solidarity Campaign Rejects Strengthening of US Blockade on Cuba
News from Cuba | Friday, 10 May 2019
London, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The UK Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) warned Thursday that the activation of the Title III of Helms Burton Act represents a very serious strengthening of United States blockade against Cuba. This is a very dangerous step in Washington's aggressive Cuba policy, because it aims to discourage ... read more
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
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
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
