Category: Cuba/US

Cuba Under Intensified US Sanctions Confronts Its Greatest Challenge: The Continuity of Obama-Trump-Biden Policy

  By Roger D. Harris  –  Oct 17, 2024 “The majority of Cubans support Castro…every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Lester D. Mallory, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, 1960. Despite draconian coercive measures … Read More

U.S. Imposes Another Year of Blockade on Cuba

By Alejandra Garcia on September 22, 2024 from Havana photo: Bill Hackwell, Our freedom and dignity will never be bought. In September, and for the fourth consecutive year, U.S. President Joe Biden renewed U.S. sanctions on Cuba under the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), an archaic 1917 law designed to cut off trade with … Read More

One Hour of US Blockade Causes Cuba over $575,683 Dollars in Damages

By Daniela Cabrera Monzón on September 12, 2024 Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, explaining the impact of the US blockade. photo: Marcelino Vázquez Hernández/Cubadebate Cuba today presented an updated report on the damages caused by the longest and most extensive blockade in world history. From March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024, the U.S. … Read More

There is Only One Cuba

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba photo: Bill Hackwell On May 28, the Government of the United States finally announced a group of measures aimed at implementing the policy announced on May 16, 2022.  The purpose of this step, according to the text published by the Office of Foreign … Read More

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