The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects alleged drug trafficking operations through diplomatic note
On 13th April 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba has issued a diplomatic note to the Embassy of the United States in Havana rejecting a statement published in an article by Newsweek magazine on 3rd April 2020 attributed to a "high official" of the United States Department of Defence and according to whom "the United States Intelligence Community has evidence" that drugs are trafficked between Venezuela and Cuba.
Cubans in the UK demand an end to the US blockade
Cuba is making an extraordinary effort to face this covid-19 pandemic. The country tries to save lives inside and outside its borders. Currently, all Cuban and foreign patients in Cuba suffering from the symptoms of COVID-19 are treated in hospitals, including thousands of people suspected of incubating this new coronavirus. Medical students guided by their professors are carrying out national surveys to identify the most vulnerable and high-risk people, as part of preventive medicine, a characteristic of the Cuban health system.
Statement of Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist - Leninist. CPGB-ML
The CPGB-ML hails the extraordinarily humanitarian and internationalist response of the Cuban state, Communist Party and people to the scourge of the Coronavirus. Despite Cuba being only a small country whose economy has for six decades been relentlessly buffeted by US sanctions designed to starve it into submission, its generosity to the world and the effectiveness of the measures it has taken to combat the virus both at home and abroad is a tribute not only to Cuba but to socialism.
Mara Tekach - Head in office of Dissidence in Cuba
In the midst of this pandemic we have seen with sadness an increasing number of victims reported every day in the world. Large numbers of people, including healthcare workers, are doing their best to avoid worst consequences. The best human values today are visible and fill us with pride in times of crisis.
Blockade: U.S. Company buys key lung ventilator manufacturing firms for COVID-19 and suspends sales to Cuba
Another more recent example of the criminal application of the United States #blockade against Cuba.