Cuba Act News Today

From the blog of Cesar Chelala at The Times of Israel

While the U.S. trades with other communist dictatorships, Cuba is the exception. The cost to American businesses is estimated at $4 billion a year.

Washington, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The reintroduction of a bipartisan bill by five US lawmakers legislators to have the blockade against Cuba lifted has become an example of the efforts to establish normal relations between the two countries.

Since World War II, U.S. international broad¬casting has been a major tool for breaking information barriers and blockades constructed by totalitarian and similarly closed authoritarian regimes. Today, the United States continues to open new doors to individual and media freedom, and to advance the free exchange and debate of ideas for citizens of states that are still not free. Despite this record, Radio and TV Martí—the United States’ Spanish-language broadcasts to Cuba—have come under...

Havana (Prensa Latina) Although it was on February 3, 1962, when US President John F. Kennedy formalized the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, the coercive measures against the island date back to 1959.

Havana (Prensa Latina) Although it was on February 3, 1962, when US President John F. Kennedy formalized the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, the coercive measures against the island date back to 1959.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., will join President Barack Obama when he visits Cuba on March 21. This will mark the first visit to Cuba that a sitting president has made since Calvin Coolidge in...

CUBA, the first Latin American country to develop its own Covid-19 vaccines, is presently short of syringes for immunising its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes, and the US blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad. Most countries are experiencing a shortage of syringes. The New York Times estimates an overall need of between “eight billion and 10 billion syringes for Covid-19 vaccinations alone.” Manufacturing capabilities are ...

Washington, Jun 3 (Prensa Latina) Five US senators asked Joe Bidens government to restore cooperation with Cuba, especially on issues related to the environment and climate change, diplomatic sources disclosed today.

Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for "Syringes to Cuba" as Carlos Lazo - Medea Benjamin for Antiwar.com Original