Ahora más que nunca necesitamos combatir el bloqueo ilegal de Estados Unidos contra Cuba. Desde hace más de 60 años, el bloqueo, un conjunto de medidas coercitivas unilaterales, asfixia a la isla, diseñado, en palabras del asistente adjunto estadounidense Lestor Mallory, 'para provocar hambre, desesperación y el derrocamiento del gobierno'. La campaña 1 cent 4 Cuba es una nueva iniciativa coordinada entre grupos solidarios de Europa y Canadá, con el objetivo de 'hacer que el bloqueo sea inaplicable', combinando quejas a los bancos con protestas en las calles y campañas en redes y medios de comunicación online.
En el aniversario de la fallida invasión mercenaria de 'Bahía de Cochinos' a Cuba, este encuentro contará con importantes discursantes cubanos sobre los impactos del bloqueo en la actualidad. Nuestro objetivo es reunir a nuevos grupos e individuos de muchos países para hacer crecer la iniciativa 1c4cuba. Ven y participa - Traducción disponible en inglés y español.
Oradores invitados de Cuba:
Dra Dagmar García Rivera, Directora de Investigaciones del Instituto Finlay de Vacunas.
Profesor Hassan Pérez Casabona, Historiador del Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos y de Estados Unidos de la Universidad de La Habana.
Rock Around The Blockade, a campaign in solidarity with Cuba and Latin America, invites you to an international demonstration against the US blockade of Cuba and all imperialist sanctions. We will unfurl a gigantic Cuban flag to demand an end to punishing US sanctions on the island that have been imposed for 61 years; the longest and most comprehensive set of sanctions imposed in modern history. The US blockade affects Cuba's trade and interaction with the world, not just the United States.
The United States uses its control over the international financial system to turn sanctions into a weapon of war targeting more than 40 countries. These sanctions block access to food, medicine, trade, technology, and finances, obstructing development and impoverishing their populations. Many of these sanctions are unilateral but their impact is extraterritorial, obstructing exchange with other countries, often third countries are complicit or unwilling to challenge US regulations for fear of fines and retribution.
We invite you to bring you own flags and banners to join us in denouncing sanctions against Cuba and the rest of the world.
Cuba has survived the longest and most comprehensive set of sanctions imposed in modern history through the 61-year US blockade.
Venezeula has been subject to US sanctions since 2015, and they have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Venezuelans.
Join us to hear from diplomats, academics and activists about the devastating impact of these sanctions and to discuss the importance of international solidarity in opposing them. The event will include audio-visual materials and music.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, an early statement of US foreign policy asserting dominance over the Latin America. Today, the US uses financial and political mechanisms to assert control; financial and trade sanctions have become weapons of war.
Cuba’s socialist government protects the population from the impact of sanctions and, incredibly, has achieved human development indicators better than many rich nations. However, the Trump administration added over 240 new sanctions, actions and coercive measures in a ‘maximum pressure’ strategy that hoped to bring down the Cuban Revolution by generating scarcity and hardship. This coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, producing an economic crisis. Biden has kept most of these sanctions in place. Cuba is being suffocated.
Today there are 928 coercive measures enacted by the United States against Venezuela. Supported by international allies, these have blocked oil exports, cut Venezuela off from international loans and credit, and prevented imports of crucial food and medicines, leading to unnecessary suffering and death. Venezuela’s assets abroad have been stolen, including $1.4bn of gold bullion held in the Bank of England.
Solidarity activists are mobilising to demand an end to the illegal extraterritorial impact of US sanctions. The 1cent4Cuba campaign is using direct action to challenge non-US banks illegally imposing US sanctions against Cuba. Find out how you can participate.
Speakers include:
- Representatives from the Embassies of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
Venezuelan Ambassador:
Rocío Del Valle Maneiro González
Cuban Ambassador:
Bárbara Montalvo Álvarez
Nicaraguan Ambassador Guisell Morales-Echaverry will also attend.
- Carolina Graterol, Venezuelan journalist and documentary maker.
- Helen Yaffe, Cuba specialist, University of Glasgow.
Cuba and COVID19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity – DaniFilms / Cuba-UK / 2020
8.45-9.45 Q&A Helen Yaffe, Valia Rodriguez
About the Film A global pandemic in a globalised world. Over one million people have died. What could we have done differently to save lives and livelihoods?
In search of collective solutions and best practice, Dr Helen Yaffe, economic historian at the University of Glasgow and Dr Valia Rodriguez, Cuban physician at the University of Aston, look to Cuba for valuable lessons. By reacting quickly and decisively, mobilising their extensive public healthcare system and state-owned biotech sector, Cuba has kept contagion and fatalities down and initiated clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine. They have also treated patients and saved lives overseas.
Based on interviews with top scientists, community doctors and medical internationalists, this documentary explores Cuba’s outstanding domestic and international response to the global pandemic. From Cuba’s extraordinary biotech sector we interview Dr Luis Herrera Martínez, who led the team that produced the Cuban anti-viral drug Interferon Alfa 2b in 1986 and is now a scientific adviser to BioCubaFarma; Dr Gerardo Guillén, Director of Biomedical Research at the world-leading Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, which has produced some of the innovative drugs on Cuba’s Covid-19 treatment protocol; and Dr Mitchell Valdes Sosa, Director General of the Cuban Neuroscience Centre, which was charged with manufacturing the medical equipment required during the pandemic.
We interview a family doctor from Havana, who conducts daily door-to-door health checks to track down the virus and slow community transmission, and a medical student who was among 28,000 others to join the public health campaign as universities were shut down. We hear from Jesús Ruiz Alemán, a member of the Henry Reeve International Medical Contingent who went to Lombardy in Italy when it was the epicentre of the global pandemic.
Through active screening, testing, tracing, isolating, hospitalising and following up cases, by 19 October the island of 11.2 million people reported just 6,258 cases and 127 deaths. No healthcare workers, pregnant women or children had died of Covid-19 on the island and clinical trials were underway for 13 Covid-19 related domestic biopharma products. Since March, 3,700 Cuban medical specialists in disease control had treated over 350,000 Covid-19 patients in nearly 40 countries. This has been achieved despite the Trump administration severely tightening sanctions against Cuba, blocking revenues and generating scarcities of oil, food and medical goods.
Presented by Dr Helen Yaffe and Dr Valia Rodriguez, Cuba & Covid-19: public health, science and solidarity is produced by DaniFilms in collaboration with Belly of the Beast Cuba.
The documentary is followed by a live Q&A between Helen Yaffe and Valia Rodriguez on our Facebook page at 8.45pm
Any donations will go towards medical aid for Cuba's public healthcare system. Click here to donate.
Restaurante El Cuba Libre Above The Sportsman 57, Mottram Road, Hyde Cheshire, SK14 2NN
Fiesta Cubana celebrando el décimo encuentro de Cubanos en UK. Ven a disfrutar del rico sazón de la comida criolla cubana, bebidas, música en vivo muchoy más... ¡TE ESPERAMOS!
Organizado por: Cubanos en UK www.cubanos.org.uky el Restaurante El Cuba Libre www.elcubalibre.co.uk
En conmemoración del 66 aniversario de los asaltos a los cuarteles Moncada y Carlos M. de Céspedes, la asociación Cubanos en UK invita a tod@s l@s cuban@s residentes en el Reino Unido a celebrar el Día de la Rebeldía Nacional.
Fecha: Viernes, 26 de Julio 2019
Hora: 1pm – 5pm
Lugar: Sede de la Embajada de Cuba en Reino Unido 67 High Holborn, London WC1V 6PA
Los participantes podrán disfrutar de bufé cubano, bebidas, música, poesías, mucho juego de dominós y más... ¡TE ESPERAMOS!
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Organizado por: Cubanos en UK y apoyado por el Consulado de Cuba en Reino Unido.
Sala para niños es parte de una serie de eventos previos al festival de cineHavana Glasgow Film Festival.
¡Es hora de ponerse los zapatos de baile porque la salsa para niños ha vuelto!
Traiga a toda la familia y baile al compás de los sabrosos ritmos cubanos con Farah Portela de Tumbao Salsa School en Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum.
Embajada de Cuba en Reino Unido 167 High Holborn, London WC1 6PAEstación mas cercana: Holborn (Central line) y Tottenham Court Road (Northern line)
Con motivo del aniversario 165 del natalicio del héroe nacional de Cuba, José Martí, la asociación Cubanos en UK y el Consulado de Cuba en Londres invita a la comunidad cubana en Reino Unido a participar en una fiesta infantil el domingo 28 de enero 2018.
Esta vez la fiesta estará inspirada en la obra que José Martí dedicó a los niños de Cuba y de América Latina: La Edad de Oro.
Los participantes podrán disfrutar de bufé cubano, bebidas, juegos educativos, competencia de dibujo, magia y mucho más...
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Organizado por: Cubanos en UK y apoyado por de la Embajada de Cuba en Reino Unido. Para más información visite www.cubanos.org.uk
Step into the spirit of Havana at this performance packed with new music by award-winning composers.
A Night at the Opera in Havana features one of Cuba's most brilliant young concert pianists, Marcos Madrigal, with jazz virtuoso Omar Puente and opera singer Ann Liebeck.
The programme includes two world premieres and two UK premieres, with lyrics from work by master poets Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda.
The evening features music by Ernesto Lecuona, Cuba's answer to George Gershwin and contemporary Cuban composers Omar Puente, the LUKAS award winner 2016, and Guido López-Gavilán.
Plus, hear from Grammy Award-winning Cuban composer Yalil Guerra; Grammy Award-winning Argentinian composer Fernando Otero; and tango composer Julian Rowlands, who was Olivier Award-nominated alongside the cast of Midnight Tango.
Ninety One Brick Lane 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL London Overground & tube Whitechapel , Shoreditch & Liverpool street
Domingo 3 diciembre 2017
Ninety One Brick Lane 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL London Overground & tube Whitechapel , Shoreditch & Liverpool street.
12:00pm La asociación de Cubanos en UK invita a todos los cubanos y cubanas a participar en el VIII Encuentro Cubanos Residentes en el Reino Unido. Una oportunidad para continuar fortaleciendo los lazos y el intercambio entre los cubanos radicados en este país. Los participante tendrán la oportunidad de actualizarse sobre asuntos migratorios y temas de interés para la comunidad cubana en Reino Unido
***EN EL MISMO LUGAR, después de las 2pm en lo adelante ver programa del Fuentes Cubanas at Ninety One Brick Lane Organizado por Sambroso Sambroso
3:00pm to 5:00pm - Salsa Lesson with the amazing Yanet Fuentes
FRESH & AUTHENTIC CUBAN FOOD ALL DAY
5:00pm DJ Javier "La Maquina De Cuba"
7:00pm - Son Con Swing 7:45pm - DJ Javier La Rosa 9:00pm - Son Con Swing 9:45pm - DJ Javier La Rosa
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