Interview with Cuban Ambassador Bárbara Montalvo Álvarez.
MATT KERR reports on the Cuban ambassador’s visit to Scotland, a nation that stands out in its support for the socialist island in the Caribbean (The Morning Star).
The Cuban ambassador to Britain, Barbara Alvarez, visited Scotland last week, a place where the Cuban struggle has enjoyed solid support for many years.
She would visit the Scottish Parliament — the first in the world to debate the plight of the Miami Five — and its Cuba cross-party group brilliantly led by former MSP Elaine Smith and now chaired by Labour’s Carol Mochan; but the first stop was Glasgow.
Solidarity with Cuba was ratified in Scotland.
London, June 10, 2023- Friends of solidarity with Cuba, trade unionists, parliamentarians and local authorities reiterated their solidarity with Cuba during the working visit of the Cuban ambassador, Bárbara Montalvo Álvarez, to the Scottish cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
CSC and NEU send two shipping containers of educational resources to Cuba
London, 21 April 2023- Members of UK’s Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) and the National Education Union (NEU), in coordination with Cuba’s education trade union, SNTECD, are finalising details to ship two 40ft shipping containers with supplies for schools on the island in the coming days.
Cuba vigorously protests United States of America’s granting of asylum to an aircraft hijacker
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 27 February 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, summoned the United States Chargé D’Affaires, Benjamin Ziff, to the Ministry, to formally convey Cuba’s vigorous protest at the granting of political asylum to the Cuban citizen Rubén Martínez Machado, perpetrator of the hijacking of a Cuban civil aircraft on 21 October 2022.