American students celebrate Cuban culture
As part of the Embassy Adoption Program project, officials from the Cuban Embassy engaged with students from Harriet Tubman Elementary School to discuss the effects of climate change on Cuba.
During the event, the American students celebrated Cuban culture and sang along to “La Guantanamera".
This meeting complements a prior gathering in January when students from the same school interacted with representatives from the embassy in honor of the 172nd anniversary of the birth of Cuba's National Hero, José Martí.
Cuba rejects U.S. decision to incarcerate migrants in the Guantanamo Naval Base
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Cuba rejects the decision announced by the President of the United States to use the Guantanamo Naval Base to imprison tens of thousands of migrants he has proposed to forcibly expel. It is a demonstration of the brutality with which that government is acting to supposedly correct problems created by the economic and social conditions of that country, the government's own management and its foreign policy, including hostility towards countries of origin.
Casa de las Américas calls for the VI International Colloquium on Latino Studies in the United States
Casa de las Américas, through its Programme of Studies on Latinos in the United States, is calling for its sixth International Colloquium on the theme of "Latinidad y geografías humanas: las fronteras (in)visibles y sus espacios de poder" (Latinos/as/xs and human geographies: (in)visible borders and their spaces of power), from 14 to 16 October 2025. On this occasion, the meeting will focus on the processes of construction and legitimization of racialized spaces that influence the relationship between Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous migrants and their children in US society.
La Casa de las Americas will hold the III International Colloquium of the Afro-American Studies Program
In tribute to the centenaries of Patricio Lumumba, Frantz Fanon and Malcolm, la Casa de las Americas will hold from June 17 to 20, 2025, the III International Colloquium of the Afro-American Studies Program “Epistemic Insurrections of Contemporary Afrodiasporic Thought”.
This event is part of the systematization processes of existing debates around African-American ideopolitical thought and it promotes the emancipatory dialogue between academics, researchers, teachers, communicators, artists and activists.
The United States takes steps in the right direction, but the blockade remains in force.
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
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