Tag: Cuba

The American people need to know what the U.S. is doing to Cuba.

Like Fidel Castro said to the UN in 1979: “if we do not resolve today’s injustices and inequalities peacefully and wisely, the future will be apocalyptic.”

Oil cutoff threats intensify blackouts and humanitarian alarms as AOC warns collective punishment is becoming normalized.

This war on Venezuela has been two decades in the making.

How a tiny island defies U.S. sanctions to lead in healthcare.

Cubans on the island are charting their own course outside U.S. hegemony and it is clear that the U.S.’s policy is to try and deny them that right. 

Withholding assistance at this critical time indicates to Cubans, Cuban Americans and the world that the Biden Administration is not really interested in the well-being of the Cuban people, despite statements to the contrary.

“The U.S. government misread Cuba when it decided to invest so heavily in trying to instigate insurrection. We Cubans want to improve our country & move forward, not back to the times when we were the friendly playground of U.S. capital, corruption & ambition.”

While giving the protests a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.

Biden would do well to heed the warning and with the stroke of a pen, lift trade and travel restrictions and allow unrestricted remittances.