Family biking across US to oppose sanctions on Cuba

July 28, 2020 WKOW.COM 0

MADISON (WKOW) — A Cuban-American teacher and his family are riding their bicycles across the entire United States. Carlos Lazo and his family started from their home in Seattle and they’ve already ridden 2,000 miles, stopping in Madison on Sunday. Their destination is Washington, D.C. where they’re hoping to advocate Read more

Codepink tell Congress to unblock Cuba!

July 27, 2020 CODEPINK 0

This is exciting and we must act fast: We have a rare chance to hold — and win — two historic votes in the Congressional House of Representatives rolling back parts of U.S. sanctions on Cuba on food, medicines, and remittances. These are amendments to a spending bill that will Read more

Cuba-United States for beginners (III)

Where did one of the architects of President Kennedy’s main program for Latin America, godfather of baptism from the Alliance for Progress, come from in 1961? In what hands did Ronald Reagan (1981-88) and George W. Bush (2001-2008) place their most important offices for the western hemisphere: those that coordinated the Read more

Cuba-US Relations for Beginners (II)

“Cuban blacks look directly into the eyes of whites,” noted an impressed North American visitor in 1907: “For the American in his country, considering black as an equal in social, political, or even labor terms is an affront, an offense, at least; for the Cuban, no. This is because [the black in Read more

In a recent report, the United Nations organization recognized Cuba’s work to achieve quality, inclusive education

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recognized the results of Cuba’s work to achieve quality, inclusive education in the 2020 Global Monitoring Report on Education for All -known as the GEM report. This global monitoring mechanism is used to evaluate progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDA) Read more