Neighbors

December 29, 2019 John Miksad 0

The sun rises eyes open the market opens too a worker stocks shelves with corn, tomatoes, and onions preparing for the day a mother makes breakfast her little girl washes her face and dresses for school she eats breakfast while watching cartoons on television  good bye kisses and hugs are Read more

90 miles of heart: Food also builds bridges at Atelier

December 17, 2019 Cubapaladar 0

When I was a child and someone told me not to do something and I couldn’t understand why, eventually I would end up finding a way to do it. This is precisely what CODEPINK’s leader Medea Benjamin is doing. She is defying all these incomprehensible Trump’s adiministration restrictions, and she’s Read more

Hundreds Stand Tall in Solidarity with the People of Latin America at Havana Conference | Resumen LatinoAmericano English

From November 1-3 more than 1,350 delegates from 86 countries representing 789 organizations, came to Havana to participate in the Anti-imperialist Conference of Solidarity, for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism. Delegates traveled from all continents, particularly from Latin America and the Caribbean.  The conference was organized by the Cuban Institute of Friendship Read more

Twitter joins the anti-Cuba movement – Progreso Weekly

October 15, 2019 Progreso Weekly 0

On the eve of a major conference to discuss the country’s deepening economic crisis, Cuba’s leadership suddenly found themselves without the use of one of social media’s most ubiquitous platforms. The incident occurred [recently] when Twitter, utilized by more than 100 million people around the world, inexplicably shut down the Read more

Travel to Cuba in December

October 8, 2019 Medea Benjamin 1

Dear friends, I want to personally invite you to travel with me to Cuba from December 14-21 (or December 14-18 if you can’t stay that long). We at CODEPINK set these dates to commemorate better times, when President Obama restored diplomatic relations on December 17, 2014, and to call for Read more

Treasury Issues Changes to Strengthen Cuba Sanctions Rules | U.S. Department of the Treasury

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) to further implement President Trump’s June 2017 National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) Strengthening the Policy of the United States Towards Cuba.  The changes amend certain authorizations related to the Read more