The Boston City Council adopted a resolution calling for the end of the US blockade against Cuba and the opening of new travel and collaborative cultural, medical and academic opportunities between the two countries.
By Boston City Council:
Havana, May 2
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez thanked the world for its support in the fight against the US blockade, while speaking at the International Solidarity Meeting.
Rodriguez expressed his gratitude to the organizations attending the meeting in this capital for the organization of days against the blockade, declarations, marches, donations and support caravans.
Havana, April 24
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on Sunday described global clamor against US blockade imposed on Cuba for over 60 years as overwhelming.
On Twitter, the Cuban foreign minister referred to the success of the call by Bridges of Love solidarity initiative, led by Cuban-American Carlos Lazo, in different parts of the world.
Bridges of love with our people are multiplying worldwide, Bruno Rodríguez tweeted, who stressed that “friends, compatriots and solidarity bodies call for the end of the policy that stifles Cuba´s development.”
Farmers and business leaders in the United States and Cuba agreed that the blockade imposed by the U.S. government on our country seriously limits agricultural commerce and hinders development of the potential that exists, during the Third Cuba-US Agricultural Trade Conference in Havana
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met with participants in the conference, thanking them for their efforts demanding an end to the blockade and promoting trade.
In the cities of Miami, New York and Seattle, several initiatives were developed to demand the end of the blockade against Cuba. Solidarity friends once again organized caravans and demonstrations that have the objective of demanding the lifting of the measures of economic suffocation that make life more difficult for Cubans.
On her Twitter account, the Cuban Chargé d'Affaires in Washington thanked these initiatives in support of Cuba.
Pretoria, 25 February, 2022.- The Cuban Ambassador to South Africa, Enrique Orta González, participated in a new edition of the "Michael Harmel" political studies seminar, an event organized by the South African Communist Party (SACP) on various topics. Harmel, who was the first editor of the then illegal magazine, "The African Communist", played a key role in forging and maintaining the unique ties that developed between the ANC and the Communist Party during the 1950s.
Pretoria, February 24, 2022.- The Cuban Ambassador Enrique Orta González met today with Zola Saphetha, General Secretary of the South African Health and Education Workers Union (NEHAWU) .
NEHAWU has maintained its solidarity with Cuba in the most difficult moments, through the firm support it gives to the struggle to lift the United States blockade against Cuba, the defense of our right to self-determination and the construction of the road to socialism.
Washington, February 24
The World Conference of Mayors and the Historical Alliance of Black Peoples and Settlements issued a resolution in favor of the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba.
In addition, they advocated the establishment of links in trade, tourism, technology transfer and training between the towns and cities of both nations and other mayors of the world, which would mean building bridges of goodwill.
Pretoria, February 16, 2022.- The Ambassador of Cuba in South Africa, Enrique Orta González, held a meeting with Father Michael Lapsley, renowned religious leader, prestigious fighter against Apartheid and president of the Association of Friendship with Cuba in the City of Cape Town (FOCUS).
Washington, February 15
Caravans calling for the end of the US blockade against Cuba will take to the streets of Seattle on February 27, as part of a movement in support of Cuba.
“Help us spread the word that it is time to stop punishing the Cuban people for making a revolution. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it is rather important than ever to stop stifling the Cuban people,” organizers said.
