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Cuba backed by 187 votes against blockade at UN
United Nations, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) The UN General Assembly today adopted, with 187 votes in favor, two against and one abstention, the thirty-second resolution demanding the end of the United States blockade against Cuba. The result confirms the isolation of the northern nation in its policy toward Havana, described in these spaces as obsolete Continue reading
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UN General Assembly, once again against the blockade of Cuba
United Nations, Oct 29th (Prensa Latina) The UN General Assembly began its debates on Tuesday dedicated to analyzing the impact of the United States blockade on Cuba, aggravated by the permanence of the Caribbean country on the list of alleged sponsors of terrorism. For two days, dozens of representatives of the member states will take Continue reading
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Letter published today in the US newspaper The New York Times
President Biden, you have exactly 90 days to reverse Trump’s brutal policy on Cuba Ten years ago, President Obama opened a hopeful new chapter in US-Cuba relations by taking the first steps toward normalization. People in both countries were optimistic that Cuba and the United States could become neighbors rather than Cold War enemies. However, Continue reading
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Gambia condemns US financial war against Cuba
Banjul, Oct. 21.- The president of the Gambia-Cuba Friendship Association, Joseph Modou Peh Grant, today strongly condemned the financial war that the US is imposing on the largest of the Antilles, in clear allusion to the tightened blockade by Washington. In a message sent to the embassy of the Caribbean island in this West African Continue reading
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President Díaz-Canel: Cuba is experiencing an exceptional situation
Havana, Oct 21st (Agencies) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said that the country is experiencing an exceptional situation, marked by two fundamental and complex events: the energy emergency, and the effects of a cyclone that hit the eastern provinces of the Caribbean island. Regarding the energy emergency, the president stressed that the problem stems from Continue reading
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Gambia reiterated call to end blockade against Cuba at UNGA79
New York, Sept. 29.- Gambia again called, for the sixth consecutive time, for an end to the blockade against Cuba at the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly (UNGA79), which concluded this Sunday here. The new call was made by the president of that West African nation, Adama Barrow, in his speech last Thursday Continue reading
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Parliamentarians around the world demand that Cuba be removed from the list of terrorist countries
Havana. (Prensa Latina) Nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 countries on five continents demanded that the United States remove Cuba from the unilateral list of states that Washington says sponsor terrorism. In a joint letter, coordinated and published by the Progressive International, the legislators described the designation of the Caribbean nation by Washington as cruel and Continue reading
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Gambia condemns US extension of blockade on Cuba
Banjul, Sept. 20th .- The president of the Gambia-Cuba Friendship Association, Joseph Modou Peh Grant, today strongly condemned the extension for one more year of the US blockade on the Caribbean island, announced by President Joe Biden. In a note sent to the Cuban embassy here, Peh Grant, on behalf of solidarity friends of this Continue reading
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Cuban Foreign Minister Presents Update on Report on the Impact of the US Blockade
Havana. – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, presented to the Diplomatic Corps accredited in Havana and to the national and foreign press, an update of the National Report on the impact on the Caribbean island of the US blockade. The presentation was a prelude to the consideration by the United Continue reading
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Day for Peace against Terrorism and the Blockade of Cuba begins
Havana, Sep 4th (Prensa Latina) The worldwide rejection of the hostility of the United States towards Cuba called for a Day for Peace against Terrorism and the Blockade, promoted by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), starting this Wednesday. The initiative will be in effect until the date of presentation to the Continue reading
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee calls for a more humane US policy towards Cuba
Washington, Aug 27th (Prensa Latina) Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee described the US blockade against Cuba as obsolete and harmful and said she will work to achieve a more intelligent and humane policy towards the Caribbean country. A member of the House of Representatives for California since 1998, Lee recalled that she has deployed her efforts Continue reading
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Cuban National Rebellion Day Celebrated in Gambia with Call for Unity
Banjul, July 26. – The Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) in Gambia and friends in this West African nation celebrated today the National Rebellion Day of the Caribbean island with a call for unity, peace and solidarity among peoples. In a colorful and emotional event for the 71st anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel Continue reading
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Global rejection of Cuba’s inclusion in the US list grows
Havana, July 10 (Prensa Latina) Almost fifty world governments and numerous organizations from the five continents have rejected the inclusion of Cuba in the US arbitrary list of countries sponsoring terrorism. As reported by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@CubaMINREX), the claim has been joined by statements of repudiation from movements, organizations, institutions, activists Continue reading
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Cuban Medical Brigade thanks Gambia for recognition
Banjul, July 3. – The Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) thanked the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Gambia, Mamadou Tangara, for the public recognition for the work of curing and saving lives carried out in this African nation, contained in a recent press release from the Foreign Ministry. Representing the BMC, Dr. Ahmed Gutiérrez Rama personally Continue reading
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In Gambia they call on the US to exclude Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism
Banjul, June 14. – The president of the Gambia-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group, Madi M. K. Ceesay, today urged the United States to immediately consider removing the Caribbean island from the unjust list of state sponsors of terrorism. In a message sent to the Cuban Embassy in Banjul, the head of the aforementioned friendship group in Continue reading
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A demand from Africa: Remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism!
By Patricio Montesinos African nations are among the first in the world to demand that Cuba be excluded once and for all from the unilateral US list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism. This was demanded at the 37th session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) held last February in Addis Ababa, headquarters Continue reading
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Statement by the Cuban Medical Brigade in The Gambia against the US’s spurious list
The collaborators of the Cuban Medical Mission in The Gambia repudiate the vindictive decision to keep Cuba on the vile list of state sponsors of terrorism. No government can claim that prerogative, much less the US. The people of the world that, always attacked and threatened with all reason and morality, can include Washington as Continue reading
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There is only one Cuba
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba 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 Assets Control (OFAC), Continue reading
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Democrats ask Biden to fulfill promise to change policy towards Cuba
Washington, Apr 11 (Prensa Latina) Almost 200 Cuban-American Democrats and hundreds of US citizens signed a petition to President Joe Biden to honor his unfulfilled promise to change the US Government’s policy towards Cuba. Signatories of the open letter include two dozen Cuban-American groups, as well as academics, business owners, executives and investors, lawyers, architects, Continue reading
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UN: US blockade against Cuba violates international law and human rights
Geneva, Apr 3 (Prensa Latina) UN special rapporteurs described the blockade against Cuba as a violation of International Law and the Human Rights of its people, in a document sent to Washington. This position was highlighted by the Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) on the Right to Food, Continue reading
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