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12Sep

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The money that never arrives in Cuba

Cubans living abroad have been unable to send remittances to their loved ones on the island due to the unilateral coercive measure imposed by Donald Trump just before leaving office by Rosa Miriam Elizalde Western Union closed down their operations in Cuba at the end of 2020 due to sanctions imposed by Trump. With the money she earns cleaning houses in the morning and an office at night, Virgen Elena Pupo, a 47-year-old Cuban migrant, has managed to raise her family in Washington, D.C., but has not been able to help her parents in Holguín, Cuba. She is separated from her parents by more than 1,246 miles. In Cuba’s eastern region, Holguín has been hit hard by an increase in COVID-19 cases, but Pupo cannot visit or send money to her parents due to the restrictions on fligh...

If Biden Wants to “Stand With the Cuban People,” He Can Ease the Cruel Blockade

9Sep

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Cuba, USA

If Biden Wants to “Stand With the Cuban People,” He Can Ease the Cruel Blockade

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the nation's economic recovery amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on July 19, 2021, in Washington, D.C. BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs The corporate media have been bashing the Cuban government in response to the recent protests in Cuba, while President Joe Biden claims, “We stand with the Cuban people.” But they ignore or minimize the leading cause of economic suffering in Cuba: the U.S.’s illegal and punishing economic blockade that Biden has left in place. Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has maintained the blockade against Cuba. Although former President Barack Obama was constrained by the 1996 Helms-Burton Act from complet...

Cuban Americans traveling 1300 miles on foot to DC: End U.S. blockade of Cuba!

9Sep

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Cuba, USA

Cuban Americans traveling 1300 miles on foot to DC: End U.S. blockade of Cuba!

Leela Anand Download PDF flyer Originally posted by ANSWER Coalition. For 60 plus years, Cuba has remained under the criminal blockade of the United States government. Carlos Lazo—a Cuban American school teacher and Iraq war veteran—and six other Cuban Americans from different walks of life have united under the banner of Puentes de Amor (bridges of love) with a shared goal: to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. The group set out from Miami in late June—covering 1,300 miles on foot—to Washington DC to deliver demands and a petition signed by over 25,000 people to the Biden administration. On July 25, at 2 pm, the anti-blockade travelers and supporters will rally in front of the White House at Lafayette Park, to make their voices heard. Solidarity caravans and other act...

Six ways the cruel U.S. blockade makes Cubans suffer

9Sep

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Cuba, USA

Six ways the cruel U.S. blockade makes Cubans suffer

Chris Banks Download PDF flyer Photo: Huge crowds gather in the early morning of July 17 to show support for the Cuban revolution and its government. Credit — CubaDebate.cu https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1090631437&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true The United States, a country with a $20 trillion economy, is waging a full-scale economic war against an island whose economy equals half of one percent of that — Cuba. The war has been going on for 60 years. It began shortly after the 1959 revolution to punish Cuba for taking control of corporations owned by rich capitalists in the United States who had brut...

7Sep

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Cuba, USA

Roaming Charges: The Cuba Fixation

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Image: Jakavonis. + The hatred of Cuba by the ruling class of the US is a kind of political neurosis. It’s visceral, irrational and violent. Cuba poses no threat to the US, militarily or economically, Yet its very existence seems to drive US policy makers crazy. This week the mayor of Miami, an anti-Trump Republican, suggested that it might be necessary to bomb Havana. Why? Because it’s there. Well, it wouldn’t be the first time. The US has invaded Cuba, funded multiple insurrections, tried dozens of times to assassinate its leaders, used biological weapons to wilt its crops and poison its livestock, tracked down and executed Che Guevara, bombarded the island with hysterical propaganda, ranted against it at the UN, financed, tra...

US Concern for Cuba, Latin America is Spin for Intervention

6Sep

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US Concern for Cuba, Latin America is Spin for Intervention

BY TAMARA PEARSON Photograph Source: Idobi – CC BY-SA 3.0 The US government says it is going to help Central America fight corruption, will combat the “root causes” of migration in Mexico and Central America, and it wants to help the Cuban people with freedom too. But the US’s domestic and foreign track record demonstrates that it isn’t qualified to teach anyone about democracy, combating poverty, ending corruption, or anything related to human rights. Instead, it’s recent discourse regarding Latin American countries is aimed at dressing itself, the bully, as the savior. By manufacturing problems (ie by directly causing hunger and medicine shortages), as well as by magnifying or distorting existing problems and combining those with real hardships, the US has been fram...

6Sep

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Cuba, USA

US Concern for Cuba, Latin America is Spin for Intervention

BY TAMARA PEARSON Photograph Source: Idobi – CC BY-SA 3.0 The US government says it is going to help Central America fight corruption, will combat the “root causes” of migration in Mexico and Central America, and it wants to help the Cuban people with freedom too. But the US’s domestic and foreign track record demonstrates that it isn’t qualified to teach anyone about democracy, combating poverty, ending corruption, or anything related to human rights. Instead, it’s recent discourse regarding Latin American countries is aimed at dressing itself, the bully, as the savior. By manufacturing problems (ie by directly causing hunger and medicine shortages), as well as by magnifying or distorting existing problems and combining those with real hardships, the US has been fram...

Washington’s Weaponization of Protests in Cuba Takes Its Regime Change Efforts to New Heights of Hypocrisy

6Sep

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Cuba, USA

Washington’s Weaponization of Protests in Cuba Takes Its Regime Change Efforts to New Heights of Hypocrisy

BY PETER BOLTON Photograph Source: Charles Hutchins – CC BY 2.0 On 11 July, Cuba saw thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in cities across the island. The protests are believed to have started in the Artemisa Province before spreading to neighboring Havana and further afield, including Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba. Press reports largely claim that protesters are motivated by shortages and the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Needless to say, the US government, its minions in the corporate-owned media, and, of course, the representatives of the Cuban-American exile brigade have seized on the protests to bolster their case for regime change and the continuation of coercive measures against the beleaguered Caribbean island nation....

If You Grew Up With the U.S. Blockade as a Cuban, You Might Understand the Recent Protests Differently

28Aug

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Cuba, USA

If You Grew Up With the U.S. Blockade as a Cuban, You Might Understand the Recent Protests Differently

BY MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS – VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Susan Ruggles – CC BY 2.0 During the early morning of July 17, Johana Tablada joined tens of thousands of Cubans as they gathered along the Malecón boulevard in Havana to stand with the Cuban Revolution. “We are human beings who live, work, suffer, and struggle for a better Cuba,” she told us. “We are not bots or troll farms or anything like that.” She referred to what has been called the Bay of Tweets, a social media campaign developed in Miami, Florida, that attempted to inflame Cuba’s social problems into a political crisis. The social problems, Tablada told us, derive from the U.S. blockade of Cuba that began in the 1960s but has been deepened by former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 243 coercive meas...

‘Economic Warfare, Designed to Starve the Cuban People into Rebellion’

13Aug

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Cuba, USA

‘Economic Warfare, Designed to Starve the Cuban People into Rebellion’

CounterSpin interview with James Early on Cuban blockade By Janine Jackson and James Early All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** Janine Jackson interviewed IPS’s James Early about the Cuban blockade for the August 6, 2021, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: In the wake of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests, lawmakers in Florida—as elsewhere—passed legislation increasing penalties for blocking public streets, and offering protection to people who hit protesters with their car. But when peo...