Impact of the U.S. blockade on pharmaceutical production in Cuba
To learn about the national production of medicines at the end of 2021 and the behavior in the month of January, Granma newspaper talked to Dr. Eduardo Martinez Diaz, president of the business group of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba, BioCubaFarma.
We think that as from June, we could start to see improvements in the overall supply of medicines and other products, especially those of higher priority, such as control cards, the executive stated.
US professors’ union asks Biden to lift blockade against Cuba
Washington, January 31
Prensa Latina
One of the largest university professors' unions in the United States on Monday asked President Joe Biden to lift the "devastating financial and commercial blockade" imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years.
The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), affiliated to the American Federation of Teachers, passed a resolution urging Biden to lift the coercive measures against Cuba, which were tightened during the Donald Trump administration(2017-2021).
Demand in Miami an end to the Blockade of Cuba
This Sunday a hundred Cubans residing in the state of Florida met in the city of Miami in favor of the elimination of the blockade on Cuba.
The initiative of the Bridges of Love project once again demonstrated the need to put an end to this hostile policy that has caused innumerable damage for more than six decades.
More than eighty cars left from the city council headquarters to Coral Gables. From there, they demanded an end to the sanctions and the blockade against the Island.
Cuban Official on the Blockade & Cuba’s Anti-Imperialism
Breakthrough News was on the ground in Havana, Cuba where Rania Khalek spoke with Johana Tablada, General Deputy Director of US affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
They discussed the US blockade hampering the country’s development, how socialism makes Cuba’s survival possible, why Cuba has such a strong anti-imperialist foreign policy, how Cuba sees the recent left victories across Latin America, Cuba’s vaccine leadership, “Havana Syndrome,” how Cuba’s medical brigades connect to an internationalist foreign policy, its growing relationships with Iran & China, and more.
Cuba’s youth alight brightly, for José Martí
Cuba was once again brightly lit, with blazing torches, for our national hero José Martí, on the eve of another anniversary of his birth, and with the energy of youth, accompanied by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, as well as Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez