The U.S. transport company that was hired to carry the donation to Cuba rejected it at the last minute arguing that the rules of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the destination country, heightened by the current U.S. administration, barred it from doing so.
In Cuba in January 2019, a Freedom Caravan of Rebel Army combatants commemorated the entry into Havana of Fidel and the rebel army on Jan. 8, 1959, cementing the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Gloria La Riva was there and interviewed some of the participants in the caravan.
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The United Nations General Assembly voted once again, by a vote of 189-2, to condemn the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
The ANSWER Coalition is building solidarity with Cuba ahead of an important UN vote to condemn the U.S. blockade of the country
The Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee reviews the history of the incidents reported by U.S. diplomats in Cuba and of the ever-changing explanations for them.
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Walter Smolarek
· October 04, 2018 9:31 PM
The workers, residents and students of the District of Columbia signing below affirm their support for the international consensus which demands the immediate end of the 59-year long unilateral, illegal, deadly blockade of Cuba by the United States. They ask the D.C. City Council to join cities and state governments around the U.S. in passing a resolution demonstrating the city’s good will toward the people of Cuba and the city’s willingness to engage with Cuba and the Cuban people in the spirit of friendship, as equals, with no preconditions in all matters of trade, travel, cultural exchange and more.
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More than 2,100 people packed and overflowed New York City’s historic Riverside Church on Sept. 26 to warmly greet Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
By imprisoning the Five, the United States tried to punish the Cuban people for defending themselves against terrorism.