Aggression with fire arm against the Embassy of Cuba in the United States
In the early hours of Thursday, 30 April 2020, an unknown individual opened fire with an assault weapon against the building of the Embassy of Cuba in the United States. There was no personal injury to the Mission staff, which is safe and protected, but there was material damage caused to the building resulting from the impact of the bullets.
The individual, about whose identity to the Cuban government has no information, was detained on site by local authorities and is under custody.
Statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, regarding the terrorist attack perpetrated against the embassy of the Republic of Cuba to the United States in Washington
As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs timely informed, around 2 o’clock today, that is, in the early hours in the morning of today, Thursday, April 30, 2020, a terrorist attack was perpetrated against the embassy of the Republic of Cuba to the United States in Washington. An unidentified individual shot at the building of the Cuban embassy in the US using an assault rifle.
US must lift its Cuba embargo to save lives amid COVID-19 crisis, say UN experts
GENEVA (30 April 2020) – UN human rights experts* today called on the United States to lift its economic and financial embargo on Cuba that is obstructing humanitarian responses to help the country’s health care system fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We urge the US Government to withdraw measures aimed at establishing trade barriers, and ban tariffs, quotas, non-tariff measures, including those which prevent financing the purchase of medicine, medical equipment, food and other essential goods,” they said.
Letter to The Washington Post from H.E. José R. Cabañas, Ambassador of Cuba, that was not published by the Editorial Board
Letters to the Editor
The Washington Post,
1301 K Street NW, Washington DC 20071
Dear Editors,
I refer to your article published in your newspaper under the headline “En Cuba la solidaridad médica se ha convertido en un gran negocio”, dated April 6.
Regrettably, the editorial section of the Washington Post confirms its traditional stance when writing about Cuban issues.
Blockade prevents a shipping company from unloading raw materials for the production of medicines in Cuba
Havana, 29 April 2020. FarmaCuba, a Cuban pharmaceutical company, reported that in March a shipping company returned two containers of raw materials to the port of origin despite they were already in Havana, as they were warned they would be sanctioned.
Neyra Muguercia, Director General of FarmaCuba explained that this resulted in the loss of a 30-day crossing, the same period for the return, and new arrangements by the parties involved to ship the raw materials with another shipping company that took 30 more days.