Only 24 experts, around 10 percent of those who could have attended, will be able to travel from the island. Representatives of the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES) denounced this Thursday that the United States denied visas or made it impossible for more than 200 academics and experts to Read more
Authorities of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) also confirmed inHavana the will to contribute to the development of air transport on the Island. Although the Trump administration threatens to further limit trips to Cuba by Americans and lawsuits under the Helms-Burton Act could reach U.S. airlines, American Airlines (AA) is seeking Read more
For his part, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza “thanked the Cuban people and government for their permanent solidarity,” according to an official note. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and ex-president and leader of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Raul Castro met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, to whom they Read more
The meeting is attended by Yukiya Amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), inaugurated the 20th Meeting of the ARCAL (Regional Cooperation Agreement for the Promotion of Nuclear Science and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean) Read more
Nearly five years have passed since President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations with Cuba and began relaxing the U.S. policy of unilateral sanctions. Now, the Trump Administration is doubling down on a failed strategy of hostility, reducing engagement with Cuba, and returning to the 1996 Helms-Burton law, one of the Read more
Contact persons: Medea Benjamin | CODEPINK co-director | 415-235-6517 | medea.benjamin@gmail.com Ariel Gold | CODEPINK co-director | 520 599 5330 | ariel@codepink.org Thursday, May 16, Washington D.C. — At 9:30 AM in the morning, D.C. police officers illegally entered the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. in the Georgetown neighborhood and arrested four activists Read more
The US is closer to war with Iran than it has been since the Bush years, or perhaps ever. And Bolton is largely to blame We know this because he has been saying it for nearly two decades. And everything that the Trump administration has done over its Iran policy, particularly since Bolton Read more
Tightening the failed embargo will push Havana into the arms of Beijing and Moscow. President Donald Trump’s decision last month to increase sanctions on Cuba represents a strategic error with serious long-term repercussions for U.S. national security. Efforts to tighten the screws at this tenuous moment will not only alienate Read more
Perhaps the most important thing that makes this new period special is that people have changed. I’m not going to talk about the chicken that can’t be found anywhere, nor the famous Brazilian rice so demanded and that has almost disappeared, nor the packages of mincemeat, before a second-choice recourse Read more
(CNN)US law enforcement on Monday started the process of trying to remove protesters from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, a State Department official said. The move to evict the protesters from the embassy came after a group of US anti-war activists began moving into the embassy last month. Medea Benjamin, one Read more
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