Cuba – Page 23 – Struggle

Sanctions fuel the fire at Cuba’s Matanzas oil storage

August 10, 2022 Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos

On August 5, a major oil storage facility in Matanzas, Cuba, 65 miles east of Havana, was hit by lightning. A tank that contained 25,000 cubic meters of crude oil caught fire after being struck. Since then, […]

Diaz-Canel calls for unity among communist parties around the world

August 5, 2022 Juan M. Garcia

Havana, Jul 28 (Prensa Latina) The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Miguel Díaz-Canel, described unity among the world’s communist groups as necessary and urgent, Granma newspaper reported on its website on […]

The Cuban people will not be defeated

July 31, 2022 Peoples Dispatch

A gathering was held at the People’s Forum in New York City on July 26, the anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba in 1953, also known as National Rebellion Day. This […]

The legacy of Pastors for Peace support for Cuba continues

July 26, 2022 Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell

For the 32nd time in 30 years a Pastors for Peace caravan is in Cuba bringing close to 100 people including many young people who are experiencing the reality of Cuba for the first time; seeing […]

Cuba facing hybrid warfare

July 24, 2022 Angel Guerra Cabrera

July 21 — Cuba must learn to live, advance and develop under the rigors of the fourth generation -or hybrid- warfare with which the United States systematically harasses it. That is the approach that emerges […]

Friendshipment Caravan tours 21 cities, set to travel to Cuba

July 15, 2022 Sharon Black

July 14 — The 32nd Friendshipment Caravan of IFCO/Pastors for Peace will leave in several days for Cuba, bringing solidarity, love and medical support to underscore the urgent need to end the criminal U.S. blockade […]

Cuba’s solidarity with Africa and the Soviet Union

July 11, 2022 Stephen Millies

“When Africa called, Cuba answered” is a well-known and true description of how Cuba aided the African liberation struggle. The slogan was popularized by Elombe Brath, the late Pan African educator and organizer who was […]

Cuba should be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism

July 9, 2022 Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos

Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism but a state sponsor of global well-being.The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries […]

How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor

July 7, 2022 Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos

To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat. Palpite, Cuba, is just a few miles away […]

Cuba, Haiti, the Helms-Burton and the crime of insubordination

July 5, 2022 Raúl Antonio Capote

Haiti was the first free nation in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first nation in the modern world emerging from a slave revolt, and the second most long-standing republic in the Western Hemisphere. The […]