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2026
On CMA CGM's Complicity in the Blockade Against Cuba
ZIMBABWE ANTI-SANCTIONS TRUST
Nembudziya, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe
PRESS STATEMENT
On CMA CGM's Complicity in the Blockade Against Cuba
17 July 2026
ZIMBABWE ANTI-SANCTIONS TRUST
Nembudziya, Gokwe North, Zimbabwe
PRESS STATEMENT
On CMA CGM's Complicity in the Blockade Against Cuba
17 July 2026
Grenadian newspapers Now Grenada and The New Today published an article in which Cuba’s Ambassador to Grenada, Yadirys Echenique Paz, described the recent vote at the United Nations General Assembly concerning the U.S. blockade against Cuba as a diplomatic victory.
Statement by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the United Nations General Assembly
“Debate: Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”
Havana (Prensa LatinaNews Agency), Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez announced today that Cuba has requested a UN session for July 7 to address the US blockade and denounced Washington's pressure to prevent the debate.
In a press conference, the Foreign Minister emphasized that the United States' multidimensional aggression against Cuba "is not a future danger or threat; it is a crime against humanity in full swing."
The Grenadian Voice reproduced the interview granted by Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal Ferreiro to the Mexican daily La Jornada. The Grenadian outlet highlighted that, according to the Cuban official, there is indeed a direct dialogue channel with the United States, though without significant results, as each approach is followed by new sanctions against the Island.
Cuba’s Socialist Renewal: Reform Is Not Surrender, It Is Resistance
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa (Coordinator of Fidel Castro Chair, The Pan Afrikanist)
Harare, June 26, 2026 – The Director of Multilateral Affairs at Zimbabwe's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, K. Taremba, and the Cuban Ambassador, Her Excellency Susellys Pérez Mesa, held a cordial exchange on the positive state of relations between the two countries and the negative consequences of unilateral coercive measures.
Cuba: The world’s longest siege
. . . how US turned an economic blockade into a military stranglehold
Mafa Kwanisai Mafa (Coordinator of Fidel Castro Chair, The Patriot)
Decolonising the Mind
IN 2026, what had long been described as an economic blockade against Cuba crossed a dangerous threshold and assumed an openly military character.
Oil tankers were seized in the Caribbean in rapid succession, millions of barrels of fuel were confiscated, and one vessel was taken despite not being under any formal sanctions regime.
The Grenadian outlet Now Grenada published the article The Total Siege Against Cuba, written by the Cuban Ambassador to Grenada, Yadirys Echenique Paz. In the text, the diplomat denounces the measures imposed by Donald Trump against Cuba, describing them as an absolute siege and warning of their consequences on the daily life of the Cuban people.
