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Our new documentary HARDLINER ON THE HUDSON is now available!
As Bob Menendez's trial begins today, we show what major media outlets are not reporting – his rise to power, links to terrorists, and disconnect with constituents.
Watch the full film here:
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BREAKING: Every single country in the world, except the US and Israel, has voted at the UN to condemn the US blockade on Cuba. Ukraine abstained from the vote.
For the 31st straight year, the world overwhelmingly opposes the US's ongoing war on Cuba.
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The creators of four Cuban vaccines against COVID-19 were awarded the “Medal for Inventors” by the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization. The island boasts one of the top ten vaccination rates in the world. Cuban vaccines have been exported to five countries.
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BREAKING: The Cuban people voted Sunday to approve some of Latin America's most progressive laws on family, women's and LGBTIQ+ issues.
@Elecciones_Cuba
reports 67% (4 million people) voted for the Families Code, revised 25 times based on citizen feedback.
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BREAKING: 1.6 million syringes arrived in Cuba today, donated by U.S.-based non-profit Global Health Partners. 2+ million more will arrive in the coming weeks. Cuba has 2 of the world’s top 5 vaccines but lacks basic supplies like syringes in part due to U.S. sanctions. (1/8)
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Cuba is conducting clinical trials for two vaccine candidates with plans to produce 100 million doses, distributed for free to all Cubans and exported to Latin America and Asia.
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BREAKING: Cuba was unable to receive a plane with medical supplies and aid from China on March 31 because of the U.S. blockade. The resources were sent by the Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist Jack Ma.
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Italy’s impoverished Calabria region will hire 497 Cuban doctors to prevent hospital closures, becoming Cuba's first permanent medical mission in Europe. Cuban doctors previously served in Piedmont and Lombardy, Italy at the onset of the pandemic to assist with a surge in cases.
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Keeping it explicit, because there’s bound to be a lot of noise & U.S. incentivized propaganda your way today 🤔🤥. Watch Episode 5
#THEWARONCUBA
for integrity-driven journalism that explores the root causes of the July 11th protests. Thank you
@mama_lucha
for the collage.
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BREAKING: All 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations demanded the U.S. end its embargo on Cuba and remove it from the
@StateDept
’s state sponsors of terrorism list at the
#CELAC
Heads of State Summit in Buenos Aires.
Joint Declaration:
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Hundreds of Cuban and international medical students led a rally Wednesday in Havana in solidarity with Palestine and their Palestinian classmates. 🇨🇺🇵🇸
Belly of the Beast spoke with some of the participants about why they condemn Israel's bombing campaign of Gaza.
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BREAKING: 160 U.S. lawyers demand
@POTUS
remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, arguing the criteria cited by the
@StateDept
don't meet the statutory definition for sponsoring terrorism. There's "no legal or moral justification" to keep Cuba on the list, they say.
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In Cuba, most food is produced by small farmers, many of whom practice agroecology — a sustainable approach to food production and rural development. Last month, dozens of small farmers from the U.S. went to Cuba to learn from their Cuban counterparts. Here's what they had to say
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Cuba is on the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list. But "what evidence is there that Cuba sponsors terrorism?"
@LizOlivaFdez
asked
@StateDeputySpox
yesterday.
His answer was a new one from the
@StateDept
.
Apparently, it has nothing to do with terrorism at all.
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#BREAKING
| The City Council of the largest city in the United States, New York City, has just approved Resolution 0285-A, which calls on the US government to lift the embargo & travel ban on Cuba as well as its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.
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#NEW
| 🇨🇺Cuban doctors from the Henry Reeve international medical brigade have arrived in Türkiye 🇹🇷 to assist in disaster response efforts after Monday's devastating earthquake. Founded in response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the brigade has since served in over 40 countries.
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Biden’s decision to keep Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list is so indefensible that even
@StateDeptSpox
seems unable to justify or take responsibility for it, fumbling over and evading
@APDiploWriter
’s straightforward questions while citing neither "facts" nor evidence.
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Cuba welcomed home last weekend the medical brigade that treated the victims of Türkiye’s devastating earthquakes.
32 Cuban health workers at the quake’s ground zero treated 3,750+ patients in 24 days.
"Cubans don't give what we have to spare. We share what (little) we have."
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The Chicago City Council has unanimously passed a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, making it the largest U.S. city to pass a pro-Cuba measure.
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The streets of Havana are calm. So far, no sign of much-hyped anti-government protests.
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Cuban-American hardliners in Miami and DC are calling for a U.S. invasion of the island. But what do Cubans in Cuba think?
Full vid:
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Millions of Cubans will vote Sunday on a new Families Code, drafted through nationwide popular consults consisting in thousands of neighborhood meetings + feedback from dozens of experts. Nearly half of all the code’s articles were changed as a result of citizen feedback.
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Happening NOW in Washington DC…hundreds of Cuban solidarity activists and Cuban Americans from throughout the U.S. have marched to the White House with a message for Joe Biden
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Argentina and Cuba discussed a "food-for-vaccines" South-South cooperation agreement as Cuba develops Latin America’s first vaccine but suffers from food shortages, while cases are rising in Argentina, an agricultural powerhouse.
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“It makes the elite uncomfortable that a Black woman like me is occupying the vice president’s house, with my authenticity, with my identity”
Watch the entire EXCLUSIVE interview with Colombian VP
@FranciaMarquezM
NOW on our Youtube channel
📽️:
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Protests happen in countries across the world but the U.S. doesn’t see them all the same. In Colombia, dozens were killed compared to only one death in Cuba, yet Biden is sending $100s of millions to Colombian security forces while punishing Cuba with sanctions.
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China agreed last week to restructure Cuba’s debt and donate $100 million to alleviate food shortages. The island’s biggest trade partner after Venezuela, China also vowed to further invest in Cuba's renewable energy, shipping and agricultural sectors.
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We also encourage
@paoramos
(an American) to make demands of their own home first and foremost. Aren’t you from Miami? We hear there’s a housing crises, an anti-homeless ordinance, displacement in predominantly Black communities. So much to pick from, you’re welcome.
This week on
#VICEonSHO
...
@paoramos
goes undercover and travels to Cuba to find out if the 62-year-old communist dictatorship is losing a grip on its people.
See what happens Sunday at 8p ET on
@Showtime
.
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In the wake of Türkiye’s devastating earthquake, Cuba, a small Caribbean island subject to devastating US sanctions, sent 32 health workers to treat the injured. Another 27 are going to Syria. The US calls Cuba's doctors victims of human trafficking. We asked them their thoughts.
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Last year, Biden called Cuba a “failed state.” But recent figures show that Cubans can expect to live to 79, while in the U.S. that number has dropped to 76.
@Newsweek
credits Cuba's free health system based on preventive and primary care.
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The U.S. embargo allows humanitarian donations to Cuba, but the bureaucratic process is cumbersome and it can take weeks to get a donation approved by the U.S. government. The syringes that arrived today were delayed almost a month by U.S. government red tape. (2/8)
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📣 Nov 5th!! Season 2 shows the impact of intensified U.S. sanctions. It uncovers the truth behind the “Havana Syndrome”, examines driving forces behind Cuba’s unprecedented July 11 protests, and reveals the political interests that pushed Biden to flip-flop on Cuba policy.
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12,000 Jamaicans awaiting eye surgery will begin receiving treatment again from Cuban specialists in Kingston after a 3-year hiatus due to Covid. Since 2004, Cuba's Operation Miracle has restored vision to over 4 million individuals across 34 countries.
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#BREAKING
: The United Nations has just voted overwhelmingly to condemn the 60-year-old U.S. blockade on Cuba. The vote outcomes was:
- 185 countries in favor of the resolution
- 2 against (the U.S. and Israel)
- 2 abstentions (Brazil and Ukraine)
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CORRECTION: Cuban vaccines have been exported to seven countries thus far 🇨🇺🤝🌎
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Cuba is vaccinating its population at one of the fastest rates in the world. 30% of its population is partially or fully vaccinated. Havana’s adult population will be fully vaccinated by the end of July. Cuba’s on track to vaccinate its entire population by the end of 2021. (7/8)
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Communities across the Americas face devastating natural disasters amid a climate emergency.
How do Cubans, under the burden of a crushing blockade, respond?
With solidarity.
"The every man for himself mindset doesn't work here."
FULL VIDEO:
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Marimón Torres: “What we really need to resolve our problems is much more than syringes. Our problems can only be solved with the elimination of the blockade…Lift the blockade and we’ll see if Cuba can’t resolve all its problems. Try it. What are they afraid of?” (8/8)
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Recent protests in Cuba in the wake of
#HurricaneIan
are "not political," according to many demonstrators. We spoke with Cubans affected by blackouts who took the streets. Power has now been restored to nearly all of Havana. Watch the entire video HERE:
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Why does Cuba have the world’s best vaccines and not enough syringes? Cuba channeled its limited resources into producing its own vaccines knowing it could not count on multinational companies in the U.S. or other developed countries to provide the counry vaccines. (3/8)
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Brazil has elected
@LulaOficial
to be its next president. His return to power could have major implications for Cuba, which sent Brazil ~12K doctors under
@dilmabr
(Lula’s
@ptbrasil
successor) and in return received billions to help fund its free public health system.
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Cuba will export over 33 million doses of its Covid vaccines to Venezuela, Iran, Vietnam and Nicaragua by January 1st. It has already produced enough doses to immunize its entire population.
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#NOW
: Cuban Foreign Minister
@BrunoRguezP
announces U.S. sanctions have cost the Cuban economy $3.8 billion from August 2021 to February 2022 alone. Cuba will present these figures in early November at the
@UN
when it introduces an annual resolution condemning the U.S. blockade.
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An enormous explosion has blown off the facade of the Hotel Saratoga in Havana.
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#NEW
In the 1st ever UN expert visit to Guantanamo Bay prison, special rapporteur
@NiAolainF
found "profound and ongoing" suffering; near-constant surveillance; undue use of restraint; violations of due process; & cruel, inhuman + degrading treatment of the 30 remaining detainees
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Cubans respond to Trump's designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.
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After Cuba's new Families Code went into effect last month, LGBTIQ+ couples are now getting married across the island. Liuba and Lisset, whose family we profiled this summer, have just gotten hitched in Santa Clara. FULL VIDEO:
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Colombia's president: The U.S. designating Cuba a State Sponsor of Terrorism is “an enormous international injustice.”
@petrogustavo
called on
@POTUS
to take Cuba off the terrorism blacklist to undo the damage Trump did to Colombia's peace process.
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Cuba will manufacture all of the necessary vaccine doses to immunize 100% of its population by August, according to BioCubaFarma President Eduardo Martinez.
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Torres confirmed Cuba tried to enter COVAX but the World Bank excluded Cuba from the list of 90 countries qualified to receive free vaccines. Instead, COVAX required Cuba pay $14 million in advance without a guarantee of what vaccine it would get or when. Cuba said no. (5/8)
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In an open letter to
@POTUS
, 400 intellectuals, scientists, artists and activists, called on the U.S. government end the embargo on Cuba. Signatories include
@SusanSarandon
,
@CornelWest
,
@TheOliverStone
and Noam Chomsky.
Read the full letter here:
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Thousands of young Cubans 🇨🇺 joined Palestinian medical students for a massive march in Havana Thursday in solidarity with Palestine and against Israel’s bombing of Gaza
"Our job is to become good professionals and return to Palestine to support our people," one 🇵🇸 student said.
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🇨🇺 Cuba currently presides over the the G77+China, the largest negotiating bloc at the UN.
This weekend, high-level delegations from nearly all 134 member states met in Havana to discuss science, technology and innovation before next week's UN General Assembly in New York City.
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Cuba Responds to Matanzas Fire that has left dozens injured, 17 missing and at least one dead. Venezuela and Mexico sent specialized crews to help. The U.S. offered "technical advice" but has not responded to calls to lift devastating sanctions.
WATCH:
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Cuban Americans and solidarity activists marched in New York City Saturday in anticipation of the annual vote at the UN to condemn the U.S. blockade against Cuba. We asked some of them why they took to the streets.
FULL VIDEO:
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Cubans will vote to redefine what it means to be a family. At a time when fundamental rights for women and LGBTIQ+ people in the U.S. are being rolled back, Cuba is guaranteeing all rights for all people in its new Families Code.
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Néstor Marimón Torres, Cuba Health Ministry: “We said, with what little we have, we have to guarantee our own vaccine…We’ll figure out how to get syringes later…But nobody is going to give us vaccines. And we knew we would never vaccinate the country with donations.” (4/8)
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Meanwhile, countries across Latin America are moving in the opposite direction. Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador have decriminalized or outright legalized abortion in the past two years. In Cuba, abortion has been universally accessible and free for all women since 1965.
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Cuba will send 7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines– Soberana 2, Soberana Plus and Abdala to Nicaragua beginning this month.
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Today millions of Cubans are expectedto vote in a national referendum to decide whether to approve a new Families Code, the most significant expansion of rights for LGBTIQ+ Cubans to date + some of the hemisphere’s most progressive laws on family issues.
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What ever happened to Elián González?
Belly of the Beast’s
@LizOlivaFdez
recently sat down with Elián, now 29 and a father of his own, to talk about migration, family, and Cuba’s future.
FULL INTERVIEW:
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Instead of depending on multinational pharmaceutical companies, Cuba decided to make its own vaccines. Marimón Torres: “We made the right choice…How many countries in COVAX have vaccinated 20% of their population as guaranteed? None.” (6/8)
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More than one year into his presidency, Biden has begun to pivot toward his campaign promises on Cuba policy. The State Department announced today that it will ease some restrictions on remittances and travel to Cuba.
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Cuba was the first country in the Americas to establish diplomatic relations with Palestine and officially defends a two-state solution based on pre-1967 borders.
One month into Israel's siege of Gaza, what do Cubans think?
We hit the streets of Havana to find out ⬇️
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Yesterday, hardline Cuban American
@RepMariaSalazar
told
@RepBarbaraLee
she couldn't join a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Cuba.
Salazar accuses Cuba's government of stifling free speech while doing the same to Lee, a Black woman who advocates lifting the embargo.
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#BREAKING
: Three Democratic and two Republican senators have just reintroduced the Freedom to Export to Cuba Act, legislation which would effectively lift the six-decade-old trade embargo against Cuba.
@amyklobuchar
@JerryMoran
@ChrisMurphyCT
@RogerMarshallMD
@SenWarren
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Protesters in Havana hit the streets in coordination with thousands more in 60 countries across five continents in a global demonstration to demand the U.S. government lift the blockade on Cuba.
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"Some people say the blockade isn't a big deal. That our economic problems are caused by our government or by socialism. If that's true, 'why don't they lift the blockade?'" —
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By royalty do you mean how Gloria Estefan’s father worked for a U.S.-backed dictator who was paid by the mob and ran a 20th-century plantation society?
My fave journalist is interviewing my fave Miami Cubans (or as I call them -- Cuban American royalty)! *cue all the fangirling*
Tune in:
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Barbados' Prime Minister
@miaamormottley
at the G77+China Summit this weekend in Havana, Cuba:
"No one has ever been held accountable, despite the mountain of evidence available" for the bombing of Cubana Flight 455, the deadliest terrorist act in the Western Hemisphere pre-9/11
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@HouseDemocrats
(including all 11
@FlaDems
& 8 of 10 NJ Dems) voted with Republicans to torpedo Wednesday a
@RepRashida
amendment to help US farmers sell food to scarcity-beset Cuba. 69% of Cuban Americans in Miami, however, SUPPORT selling food to Cuba (2020 FIU Cuba poll) 🤔
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Fines, shuttered accounts, frozen assets. U.S. sanctions have cost the Cuban economy $3.8 billion in 6 months according to a report the Cuban government will present at the
@UN
next week when the vast majority of countries are expected to denounce the U.S. embargo (again).
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Why are dozens of US students getting their medical degree in Cuba? 🇨🇺
What are they learning that they wouldn't be in the US?
We asked four medical students in
@ifcop4p
's ELAM scholarship program—here's what they had to say.
FULL VIDEO:
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The Cuban national team received a hero’s welcome in Havana after finishing fourth in the 2023
#WorldBaseballClassic
But in Miami, the team faced protests and even acts of violence from some Cuban Americans
#TeamAsere
was historic, including active
@MLB
players for the 1st time
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#NOW
: Thousands of young Cubans in Havana are marching in solidarity with Palestine. 🇨🇺🇵🇸
They are calling for a ceasefire and respect for Palestinian lives, as well as a stop to Israel's indiscriminate bombing campaign of Gaza.
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Hundreds of solidarity activists from the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico met in NYC last weekend where they called to normalize relations with Cuba and end the U.S. embargo against the island.
We talked with some of them about what motivates their struggle in solidarity with Cuba.
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2021 was a rough year for the Cuban people, who not only faced the pandemic, but devastating sanctions imposed by Trump…and kept in place by Biden. So what are their hopes for 2022?
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Fat Joe ran into Belly of the Beast journalist
@LizOlivaFdez
yesterday in the U.S. Senate.
@fatjoe
talked about U.S. health care and how he wants to visit Cuba but feels he can’t ⬇️
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China is now the top destination for Cuba's world-famous cigars, overtaking Spain. Due to the embargo, Cuba cannot sell its signature export to the world's largest cigar market, the United States.
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#NOW
| Activists with
@NNOCuba
,
@codepink
and
@ifcop4p
have just been arrested after seeking to meet w/
@SenatorMenendez
over his support for the U.S. embargo on Cuba and its presence on the state sponsors of terrorism list.
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Our newest documentary, Little League Dreams, is out!
Watch the inspiring stories of Cuba’s best young baseball players as they prepare for the biggest adventure of their lives—representing Cuba for the first time at a
@LittleLeague
World Series.
FULL 📽️
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100 U.S.-based organizations and 40,000 people named Cuba's Henry Reeve Medical Brigades winner of the People's Peace Awards after they were not selected for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
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On Sunday hundreds of activists took the streets in Washington DC to tell
@POTUS
to take Cuba off the US’s “state sponsors of terrorism list”
It's been 2.5 years since Trump put 🇨🇺 on the list
Protesters say now's the time to take Cuba off — because it doesn't sponsor terrorism
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Cuban-American activists are walking more than 1,000 miles from Miami to Washington DC as part of a protest caravan calling for an end to the crippling sanctions against Cuba.
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Like countless other Cuban ballplayers, Roberto Hernández left his home in pursuit of the “American dream.”
He signed a $320,000 deal with an MLB team, but money didn’t bring him happiness, so Robert made a surprising decision: to return to Cuba.
FULL🎥:
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Cuban college students at
@UdeLaHabana
gathered to watch the annual UN vote on the U.S. blockade against Cuba. The international community voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo (for the 30th straight time since 1992) – as did the students.
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Badgered by
@RepMariaSalazar
,
@SecBlinken
says
@StateDept
has no plans to lift Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.
FACT CHECK: Cuba doesn't sponsor terrorism—it is sponsoring peace. Cuba will soon host Colombia-ELN peace talks at the request of Colombia's gov't.
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Bayamo’s Little League team will make Cuba's historic debut in the
@LittleLeague
World Series. 🇨🇺 ⚾️
The kids have said goodbye to their families and arrived in the U.S.
Next Wednesday, they play their first game against Japan at the annual event in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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U.S. policy toward Cuba is "an embarrassment and a miserable failure," says
@RepMcGovern
, who calls the U.S. embargo a "double standard" and has personally asked
@POTUS
and
@SecBlinken
to take Cuba off the state sponsors of terrorism list.
FULL INTERVIEW:
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The Biden administration hammers Cuba with sanctions, devastating its economy and contributing to fuel scarcities. Then, when the Cuban people protest in the midst of power cuts, the U.S. blames…the Cuban government. 🙃
We are aware of reports of peaceful protests in Santiago, Bayamo, Granma, and elsewhere in Cuba, with citizens protesting the lack of food and electricity. We urge the Cuban government to respect the human rights of the protestors and address the legitimate needs of the Cuban
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Marco Rubio wants to talk about jailing Cubans but has had his campaigns funded by the for-profit prison industry, signing million dollar contracts to jail Floridians.
Hypocrite marxist Danny Glover can criticize U.S. policy without fear, but always defends a regime that jails Cubans who criticize them.
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"It is uncomfortable as Cubans to listen to American politicians wishing us the best while applying a policy that does the opposite... The biggest support the Biden administration could offer to the Cuban people is to lift the sanctions." - Daniel Montero, Belly of The Beast
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All that cash found in the Menendez investigation?
An "old-fashioned" practice of withdrawing 30 years of legal earnings, given his family's history of "confiscation" in Cuba
Menendez's parents left Cuba in 1953 & he was born in NYC six years before any nationalizations begun🤔
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Ex-Pentagon intelligence analyst Ana Belén Montes was released from federal prison last week after serving 20 years for passing sensitive national security information to the Cuban government. "I obeyed my conscience rather than the law," she said in 2001.
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Cuban Firefighters are on Day Six of responding to the largest fire Cuba has seen in its history. With the fire threatening to destroy essential fuel that feeds Cuba's biggest power plant, firefighters of Matanzas risk their lives to extinguish the flames.
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