Cuba

Sameena Rahman Download PDF flyer The Biden administration announced yesterday a change in some existing measures against Cuba, reversing several Trump-era restrictions. The U.S. government will now allow air travel between the United States and Cuban cities beyond Havana and allow for more remittances – although their scope is limited. While these measures are a welcome step in the right direction, they are politically shrouded in anti-Cuba hostility and the urgent necessity remains to fight for the total end to the U.S. blockade of the island. This announcement comes a few weeks after the U.S. embassy in Cuba resumed issuing visas for travel in May, for the first time in four years. The U.S. State Department will reinstate the Cuban Family Reunification Parole, which would ...

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Pepa Barril – CC BY 2.0 Presently 3.6% of the world’s people live in a country other than their own. They move to escape wars, oppression, poverty, hunger, climate-change effects, or to find new work, or because they were forced to move. The story is also about nations weaponizing or exploiting migration. After a decade or so of relatively few Cubans arriving in the United States, their numbers are up. Between 2018 and 2021, some 2,000 Cubans emigrated to the United States. But in January almost 15,000 Cubans crossed the U.S. southern border; the daily average in February was 1500. U.S. border officials are seeing “a twelvefold increase over 2020,” according to the Washington Post. Contributing to migra...

BY ISAAC CHRISTIANSEN Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain On the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of JFK Signing the Blockade into Law, Executive Order 3447 It has now been 60 years since this U.S. enacted its “embargo” on Cuba.  The term embargo is however, a gross understatement of the measures designed to undermine and overthrow the Cuban government, in the words of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Lester Mallory (1960) “through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship”.  The concept of ‘economic war’ is a much more accurate depiction. For sixty years the U.S. has sought to create a U.S. policy, in the words of Mallory (1960), that “while as adroit and inconspicuou...

Liberation Staff Download PDF flyer These video messages and others were delivered at an event organized by Radio Havana Cuba and Cubavisión Internacional to mark the 60th anniversary of the imposition of the cruel U.S. economic blockade that aims to suffocate the Cuban economy and cause suffering among the people. https://youtu.be/a_ZFS7L5swo https://youtu.be/PQVmdQ_4cIg https://youtu.be/zu8bBSfa8Q8 The following statement was issued on Feb. 3, 2022, by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Spanish below) The revolutionary government condemns the continuance for over 60 years of the economic, commercial and financial sanctions formally imposed by the United States on 3rd February 1962. On that date, the then president, John F. Kennedy, issued Proclama...