Washington blocks shipment of medical donation from Chinese company Ali Baba to Cuba.

 

 

 

 

 

The Cuban ambassador to China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, denounced Wednesday that the economic, financial and commercial blockade by the United States prevents the Alibaba company from making a donation to the island to combat the COVID-19.

According to the diplomat, the U.S. firm contracted to transport to the Caribbean nation a batch of face masks and diagnostic kits of the deadly disease, at the last minute declined to make the delivery, arguing regulations of the blockade.

US Episcopal Church Bishop expresses opposition of blockade on Cuba.

 

 

 

 

 

The Episcopal Church of the United States is and will continue to be against the blockade policy that Washinton has been exercising against Cuba for almost 60 years, its presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry said.

In statements to Prensa Latina in Havana, Bishop Curry said that since 1991 the Episcopal Church in the US had adopted its opposition to the siege against the Caribbean island. “We have expressed this to the government and Congress, and we continue to do so,” he stressed.

Authorities report on shortage of liquid petroleum gas due to U.S. sanctions.

 

 

 

 

 

From: Radio Havana Cuba.

The Cubapetroleo Union (CUPET) announced on Monday that the recent sanctions imposed by the U.S. Administration on the Pan-American Corporation S.A., have reduced the availability of that fuel on the island.

In a  press release, the state entity informed that the Pan-American Corporation S.A., sanctioned by the Treasury Department on November 26, had contracted the supply of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) that would guarantee the consumption of the population and the state and non-state sectors.

U.S. bans commercial charter flights to Cuba, except to Havana’s José Martí International Airport.

 

 

 

 

 

As part of its ongoing efforts to punish the Cuban people, the U.S. Government announced Friday the suspension of all public charter flights to the Caribbean island, except for those trips bound to Havana’s José Martí International Airport.

In making the announcement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that public charter flight operators will have a 60-day wind-down period to discontinue all affected flights.

He also requested the Department of Transport (DOT) to impose a cap on the number of permitted public charter flights to Jose Marti International Airport.

Jueza estadounidense desestima demanda presentada contra la línea de cruceros MSC Cruises.

 

 

 

 

La jueza estadounidense Beth Bloom desestimó una demanda presentada contra la línea de cruceros MSC Cruises bajo el Título III de la controvertida Ley Helms-Burton contra Cuba.

José Ramón Cabañas, embajador de la isla caribeña en Estados Unidos, difundió en su cuenta de Twitter un enlace al texto de la orden emitida por la magistrada con fecha 3 de enero.

“When the bully rules”, a look from UK to the impact of the US Blockade on Cuba.

“When the bully rules”, is a work of young journalist Cristina Escobar about the impact of the US Blockade on the people of Cuba.

The US blockade against Cuba is real. These are the facts:

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against Cuba continues to represent a hindrance for the development of all the potential of the Cuban economy.

The blockade constitutes a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of all Cuban men and women. The blockade violates the rights of the Cuban people.

UN condemns Cuba blockade 187-3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Morning Star.

THE United States stood shamed before the world for the 28th year running on Thursday when the UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn its illegal blockade of Cuba.

Of 193 member states of the United Nations, 187 voted in favour of the resolution demanding an immediate end to the blockade, which is estimated to have cost the socialist country over $130 billion (roughly £100bn) over six decades.

Cuba’s report on the blockade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Morning Star. 

Around November 7 the United Nations general assembly will vote for the 28th consecutive year on the resolution tabled by Cuba calling for an end to the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island.

As usual, the world will not be surprised when the US opposes the motion, ignoring the overwhelming majority of countries who call each year for an end to this “genocidal” policy. Last year 189 countries voted to end the blockade.

Cuba’s motion is backed by a detailed 50-page report that illustrates the devastating impact of the US policy on the daily lives of the Cuban people.

At the same time it sets out a myriad of US measures designed to stop countries, companies and individuals across the globe from trading with the increasingly beleaguered island. The ongoing impact on British-Cuban relations is devastating. The full report can be read here bit.ly/UNBlockadeReport2019.

Cuban sugar workers condemn US blockades.

 

From: Morning Star. 

CUBAN sugar agro-industry workers have condemned US blockades for “choking” the people’s economy.

Association of Cuban Sugar Technicians (ATAC) president Eduardo Lamadrid Martinez warned on Thursday that economic, financial and commercial blockades against Cuba by the US were becoming “more dramatic.”

“On behalf of the more than 10,600 technicians and scientists of the sector, we condemn this unjust policy that tries to choke us economically,” Mr Lamadrid Martinez said.