U.S. policy toward Cuba: "Morally unacceptable and antithetical to our faith".
A score of U.S.-based Protestant church bodies urged President Joe Biden to make substantial changes in bilateral relations with Cuba, including its removal from the State Department's List of State Sponsors of Terrorism (LEPT).
In a letter dated May 9, 12 organizations representing different religious denominations and 8 faith-based institutions point out that the current U.S. policy of strangling Cuban society with an economic blockade to force it to overthrow its government is morally unacceptable and contrary to their faith; as well as to basic human rights principles.
The United States has to take Cuba, once and for all, out of the list of states allegedly sponsoring terrorism
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
According to U.S. official media reports, on 15 May 2024, the country’s State Secretary submitted to the Congress one more of the arbitrary reports that normally describe countries without any international mandate or recorgnition. This time, he listed four countries who allegedly “do not fully cooperate with the United States antiterrorist efforts for the 2023 calendar year.” As opposed to what has happened in recent years, the list does not slanderously include Cuba among such countries.
Cuba resists and advances despite hostile U.S. policy.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated the will to advance in its economic and social development, despite the intensification of the U.S. blockade that attempts to subvert the revolutionary process.
In an interview with Spanish journalist and writer Ignacio Ramonet, published today in the Granma newspaper (the newspaper with the largest circulation), the Cuban leader affirmed that in the face of these aggressions, the country has not remained idle and is developing its capacity to resist.
Cuban Foreign Minister welcomes participation in agricultural conference.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez today thanked the Agricultural Coalition (Focus Cuba), businessmen and officials from various entities for their participation in the V Cuba-US Agricultural Conference in this capital.
In his official X account, the Cuban Foreign Minister stressed that they remind us of the importance of moving forward and overcoming the absurdity and cruelty of the prohibitions of the intensified blockade that punishes both peoples.
U.S.-Cuba agricultural conference held
Representatives of the agricultural sectors of Cuba and the United States will begin today a fifth bilateral conference, given the interest in establishing normal and mutually advantageous economic and trade relations.
The inauguration of the meeting will take place in the capital's Hotel Nacional, declared a National Monument in 1998 and inscribed in the Memory of the World Register of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) since 2008.