Cuba Solidarity Campaign activists took actions in London, Manchester and Sheffield today as part of the World Caravan Against the US blockade of Cuba.
The events were part of an international weekend of actions in advance of the United Nations General Assembly vote on the US blockade which takes place on 23 June. CSC members in Liverpool and Birmingham are also set to take actions on Sunday.
Sigue leyendoFriends of Cuba, Cuban emigrants and members of friendship organizations on Sunday have participated in the Third World Solidarity Caravan in more than 70 countries.
With marches, parades and other initiatives, demonstrators are calling for the end of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba in force for more than six decades, which has been tightened to unprecedented levels in the past few years despite the international repudiation of this hostile policy.
El bloqueo impuesto por Estados Unidos a Cuba entorpece la actividad exportadora e importadora de la empresa Acinox Comercial, encargada de la comercialización en el mercado externo de productos y servicios de la industria sideromecánica cubana y la búsqueda de materias primas para esta y otras ramas.
Sigue leyendoThe head of the Cuban Mission in the United States, Lianys Torres, highlighted that Cambridge, in Massachusetts, joined 18 other cities that have adopted similar resolutions to eliminate the blockade against Cuba.
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has called the United States government immoral, arrogant and perverse for its escalation of hostility against the people of the Caribbean nation.
“The imperial government is applying new sanctions that affect the Cuban people, while the American people are being harshly hit by the pandemic and racist repression,” the Cuban leader remarked on his personal Twitter account. With the tag #NoMoreBlocking and a photo with the phrase “Sanctions are a crime,” the president said that in Cuba, no one surrenders.
The Interreligious Platform of Cuba has released a statement repudiating the most recent hostile actions of the United States against our country as well as Washington’s blockade of the island.
The religious movement, which includes the seven religions established across the country, expressed its indignation of the “unjust” inclusion of Cuba on the list of countries that “do not cooperate with anti-terrorist efforts” shortly after the attack on its embassy in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON has come under fire for blocking much-needed medical supplies from reaching Cuba for a second time, with Swiss groups branding the six-decade-long economic blockade “a criminal act.”
The aid had been collected by the Swiss solidarity group MediCuba Switzerland and had been intended for Covid-19 patients on the socialist island.
Now we have a chance to show solidarity with Cuba and help the Cuban people in their fight against coronavirus at home and abroad”
Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary
There is a growing worldwide demand to end the US blockade of Cuba to help the international battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
Politicians, international organisations, governments and millions of people across the globe are now calling on the United States to lift its blockade of Cuba at this time of worldwide crisis. The central demand is a humanitarian one — it is now time for co-operation across borders not aggression and blockade.
While Cuban medical collaboration is extended around the world to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the insane blockade imposed by the United States on our country, has just denied our public health system access to two regular suppliers of ventilators, key to the care of the most serious cases of the disease.
In another twist of this genocidal, inhumane policy, the manufacturers IMTMedical AG and Acutronic, announced the end of commercial relations with Cuba, after the companies were acquired by the U.S. firm Vyaire Medical Inc.
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