Reverend Jim Winkler, President and General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, adressed a letter to the Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo to express concern that Cuba has been and continues to be listed on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s “Special Watch List”.
Photo: Cuban diplomats Rodney González y Yanet Pumariega
July 7, 2020, the Organizing Committee of the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations hosted the webinar “Why there are no George Floyd´s in Cuba”. Panelists agreed that in spite of the remaining challenges, the Cuban Revolution set a new social paradigm, which erased inherited structural racism, adopted laws and public policies to guarantee racial equality, and created a new police force whose main task is to protect life.
Cuba maintains status as guarantor in implementation of peace agreement between Colombia and the FARC-EP
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba on June 4 issued a statement rejecting and denouncing the actions of political manipulation regarding Cuba's role in the process to achieve peace in Colombia.
Cleveland City Councilman Blaine Griffin was the primary sponsor of the resolution calling for an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba
Note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba.
The director of Bilateral Issues at the General Division for U.S Affairs, Yuri Gala López, conveyed today to the U.S. chargé d'affaires, the strongest rejection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the letter the aforesaid diplomat sent in collusion with José Daniel Ferrer, a common criminal.