A pocos días de una excelente reunión en La Habana donde parte de la migración patriota intercambió de manera abierta y sincera con autoridades cubanas sobre problemas comunes, se destapan planes desde Estados Unidos para desestabilizar la isla.
Ya se habla de conspiraciones para desarrollar actos violentos , coordinaciones con autoridades estadounidenses para aumentar la presión y estimulación de manifestaciones antigubernamentales.
Es evidente que ante el fracaso de intentar colocarnos a la mayoría de los cubanos de adentro y de afuera, en una posición de ruptura del gobierno de Cuba, desde un sector minoritario de la emigración se aceleran los planes para sembrar el odio y la desunión.
El momento escogido, el fin de año, cuando se supone todos estamos enfocados en tratar de darle una buena entrada al 2024, esperando sea un año mejor para todos.
No pueden pretender unos pocos, que la mayoría estamos a favor de provocar la desestabilización en Cuba, que agudice las penurias que ya sufre nuestra gente en la isla, sobre todo por las consecuencias de un injusto Bloqueo y un caótico escenario económico internacional.
No cuenten con la emigración patriótica para eso.
La solución de los problemas de Cuba no pasan por generar el caos y la desestabilización; por presionar y fomentar un ambiente propicio para que el enemigo histórico de la nación cubana, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos desate sus planes ambiciosos de desaparecernos como país independiente y soberano.
Desde la emigración patriótica hacemos un llamado a la comunidad cubana residente en el exterior a pronunciarnos en rechazo a estas nuevas maniobras, a no dejarnos confundir creyendo que la solución es el caos y la guerra, a promover la paz y el amor entre cubanos y a trabajar juntos por un mejor año para los nuestros en la Isla.
Digamos no a los que han gritado a los cuatro vientos que la solución en Cuba es una invasión estadounidense , a los que pretenden dar la justificación para convertir a Cuba en la Gaza latinoamerica.
Conózcase nuestra más enérgica condena a todos estos planes, sepan que seguiremos cada día más unidos en seguir edificando Puentes de Amor, pues sólo el amor engendra la maravilla.!
Cuba solidarity activists unfurled a giant Cuban flag in Glasgow’s Queens Park on Friday 14 April to add their voice to the international movement demanding an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba. The event was supported by activists from Rock Around the Blockade, Cuba Support Group Ireland CSGI, Cubanos en UK and Glasgow FRFI.
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.
The International Tribunal on the US sanctions against the Republic of Cuba
Pronounces the following judgment:
The extensive political and economic sanctions imposed on the Republic of Cuba since 1960 up to date violate international law. These include, above all, Articles 2(4) and 2(7) of the UN Charter on the protection of sovereignty, self-determination and the prohibition of intervention, the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966, as well as the provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the protection of freedom of trade and numerous principles of the Treaty on European Union (TEU, Maastricht Treaty).
Desde la madrugada del 13 de octubre Alexander salió manejando desde la Habana el camión de Prensa Latina con la misión de entregar la donación para los damnificados de las inundaciones que provocaron las excesivas lluvias el pasado mes de junio en Palma Soriano.
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.
La asociación Cubanos en UK condena en los términos más enérgicos el reciente atentado terrorista contra la Embajada de Cuba en los Estados Unidos. Este incidente, el segundo en los últimos tres años, ocurre en un contexto de agresiones y amenazas políticas promovidas por el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos contra nuestro país.
Momento en que el terrorista llega frente a la Embajada de Cuba en los Estados Unidos, prende los cócteles molotov y los lanza contra la fachada de la misión.
Desde 1959, Cuba ha registrado más de 3 mil muertes y miles de heridos como resultado de atentados terroristas, en su mayoría orquestados por grupos de extrema derecha de origen cubano con base en los EE.UU., lo que ha causado víctimas tanto dentro como fuera de Cuba.
Exigimos que el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos condene de manera enérgica este acto, ya que adoptar una postura indiferente equivale a complicidad y fomenta su repetición. Estos incidentes son promovidos con impunidad desde plataformas sociales por ciberterroristas que perpetúan constantemente el odio contra Cuba, financiados con fondos del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos.
Es responsabilidad de los Estados Unidos garantizar la seguridad y la tranquilidad de las sedes diplomáticas y del personal acreditado en su país.
Mientras que estos crímenes son severamente sancionados en los Estados Unidos, lamentablemente, cuando se trata de Cuba, prevalece un doble estándar. Ignorar estos hechos convierte a la administración de los Estados Unidos en cómplice de actos terroristas.
La Asociación Cubanos en UK rechaza rotundamente el terrorismo y la violencia, y hacemos un llamado urgente a la comunidad internacional a unirse en la condena de estos actos terroristas.
Once again, our association Cubanos en UK has fallen victim to the United States blockade of Cuba. Stripe, a payment gateway, has frozen our account with almost £1,000 that we had already raised for medical aid for Matanzas’ hospitals in the wake of the terrible fire earlier this month.
This decision comes only few days after Stripe confirmed that we could use their services to collect online donations on our website (cubanos.org.uk).
