Cuba
Cheryl LaBash: What Fidel means to me today
Cheryl LaBash’s speech on a panel organized by the Cuban Embassy in the United States as a tribute to Fidel Castro’s life. LaBash is a co-chair of the National Network on Cuba. I am humbled […]
Author: Cheryl LaBash
Cuba
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 […]
Cuba
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. […]
Cuba
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 […]
Cuba
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 […]
Venezuela
My trip to Caracas: an example of U.S. warfare on Venezuela
Sept. 20 — The I Congreso Internacional de Mujeres — the first International Women’s Congress for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, organized by the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela — begins today. And what better […]
Venezuela
U.S. war on Venezuela continues
Banks and BigPharma kill Citibank blocked funds for Insulin, threatening the lives of 450,000 Venezuelan people while BigPharma in the U.S. jacks up prices, resulting in patient deaths On Aug. 26, OrinocoTribune.com made English readers […]
Cuba
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 […]
Iran
From Cuba to Iran: Sanctions are war
Presentation given at U.S. Hands Off Iran webinar sponsored by Struggle-La Lucha on July 14, 2019. The news headline says the president is announcing new sanctions. What is a sanction? College sport fans have heard […]
Cuba
Caravan to Cuba challenges U.S. blockade, travel restrictions
On June 5, Caribbean cruise ships that were headed to Havana or other Cuban ports of call abruptly changed course, forbidden to dock there by the U.S. government’s enhanced blockade measures. Just a week later, […]