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The United States takes steps in the right direction, but the blockade remains in force.

On January 14, 2025, the government of the United States announced the following decisions:

1. Remove Cuba from the State Department list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism;

2. Make use of the presidential faculty to prevent US courts from taking action with regards to lawsuits that might be filed by virtue of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act; and

In the spirit of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, the Cuban Government releases persons who are serving prison sentences.

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba

As part of the close and fluid relations with the Vatican, the Government of Cuba has remained in touch with Pope Francis and his representatives and, as has occurred in the past, has kept His Holiness informed about the processes of review of the convictions and the release on imprisoned person, a practice that is common in our judicial system and has characterized the humanitarian record of the Revolution.

Speech by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at the March of the Combatant People against the blockade

Dear General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution;

Dear people of Cuba;

Habaneros;

Compatriots:

The current U.S. administration, which has exactly one month left in the White House, has done nothing to move away from the line of reinforced blockade and economic suffocation of Cuba inherited from the Republican administration, which will return to the Oval Office in January.

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