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CUBA: We hear you and see you
You have heard a lot about Cuba. Maybe your friends or neighbors traveled there after direct commercial flights from U.S. airports resumed in 2015. Or had their cruise to Cuba cancelled in June 2019. Or […]
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Union organization votes to #unblockCuba
The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (AFL-CIO) 15th Biennial Convention unanimously called “for an immediate end to the U.S. government’s economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba, including restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. […]
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U.S. denies visa to Cuban Health Minister to attend international health meeting in Washington
Health ministers from throughout the Americas gathered in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 30, for a week of meetings to set regional health goals and priorities at the 57th Directing Council of the Pan American Health […]
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Cuba resists economic strangulation
A Sept. 16 Business Insider headline alerted readers: “Grocery stores would run out of food in just 3 days if long-haul truckers stopped working.” Scary thought? But what if they stopped working because they had […]
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‘Cuba cannot be intimidated’: behind U.S. expulsion of diplomats
Statement of Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations Last September 12, the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York sent a communication to our Permanent Mission to the above global […]
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‘Cuba no podrá ser intimidada’: Declaración de la Mision Permanente ante Naciones Unidas
Declaración de la Mision Permanente de Cuba ante Naciones Unidas El pasado 12 de septiembre, la Misión de los Estados Unidos ante la Organización de Naciones Unidas, en Nueva York, hizo llegar a nuestra Misión […]
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Twitter Blocks Cuban Media: What are they Afraid Of?
Sept. 12 — For more than 60 years now, Cuba has been a victim of a brutal U.S. commercial, financial and economic blockade. Now, in a blatant act of mass censorship and blockage of internet […]
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Venceremos Brigade — 50 years of solidarity
The 50th Venceremos Brigade to Cuba departed from Bayamo, capital of Granma Province, Aug. 8, on a sunny, warm, humid morning. Thus began the final week of the three-week celebration of the first International Solidarity […]
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1199SEIU retiree says Cuban travel restrictions will reverse progress
A letter to the 1199 Magazine, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers, from an 1199 retiree. It was printed in the July/August issue, which goes out to about 400,000 members and retirees. Working people all over the […]
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On July 26, Cuba has a lot to Be Proud Of
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the simultaneous assaults on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the military garrison in Bayamo led by Fidel Castro and less than 200 combatants in what is […]