There is only one Cuba
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
On May 28, the Government of the United States finally announced a group of measures aimed at implementing the policy announced on May 16, 2022. The purpose of this step, according to the text published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), is to support the private sector in Cuba.
Effects of U.S. policy against Cuba described as genocidal
The deputy director general of the U.S. Directorate of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Johana Tablada, today described as genocidal the inclusion of Cuba in the unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
In an interview to the Caribbean Channel of national television, the diplomat explained that the recent exclusion of the island from a list of nations that "do not fully cooperate in the fight against terrorism" does not mean its elimination from the general list of the State Department that imposes measures against this Caribbean country.
Cuba thanks U.S. Hatuey solidarity group for medicine donations
Cuba thanked the U.S. group Hatuey for the donation of cytostatics for children with cancer, needles for bone marrow extraction, catheters and other means, at a press conference held today by organizers of that solidarity group at the headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
Cuba and the U.S. exchange opportunities for collaboration in biomedical and biotechnological research.
Scientists, doctors, politicians and diplomats met at the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. to discuss the present and future of collaboration in biomedical and biotechnological research between Cuba and the United States.
The director of the Center for Neurosciences of Cuba, Dr. Mitchel Valdés, the professor of Biophysical Physiology and Psychiatry, Mark Rasenick and the president of Discovery Therapeutics Caribe (DTC), Lee Weingart, presented the opportunities for collaboration that exist between both countries in these sectors.
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.