U.S. national security adviser John Bolton talks to reporters at the White House © REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque US President Donald Trump’s national security hawk John Bolton has vowed to “sever ties” between Havana and Caracas with sanctions on oil and other exports after an Italian oil shipping firm folded under pressure. Read more
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel received in Havana on Tuesday the members of the 30th US-Cuba Friendship Caravan, organized by the Interreligious Foundation for the Organization Community IFCO-Pastors for Peace. The group – made up of 34 people from the United States, Canada and Mexico – is headed by Gail Walker, Read more
HAVANA, June 20 (Xinhua) — Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday rejected his country’s inclusion in a U.S. blacklist of the worst offenders of human trafficking. The U.S. State Department added Cuba to the lowest tier in its annual 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, alleging Havana’s medical diplomacy, which Read more
The State Department plans to spend more than $1 million to train “a new generation of independent leaders to bolster Cubans’ abilities to develop independent civil society communities and express ideas regarding human rights and democracy to peers and those outside Cuba.” A State Department proposal says “this cadre of Read more
Since the latest attack on US- Cuba travel, there has been a flood responses pointing out that the policy doesn’t make sense because it will actually harm the very people the administration purports to support: the Cuban people. These new regulations eliminate the Group People-to-People Educational Travel from the list Read more
As we are sure many of you are now aware that yesterday, June 4, 2019, the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has removed “group People-to-People educational travel” from the list of approved travel among other regulation changes. Effective today, June 5, 2019, U.S. 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
ick Scott wants the U.S. Navy to block Cuba and Venezuela’s oil trade WASHINGTON A week after Rick Scott called for the U.S. military to intervene in Venezuela amid Juan Guaidó’s attempt to oust Nicolás Maduro from power, the U.S. Senate’s biggest hawk on Venezuela is calling for more. Scott said Wednesday Read more
National Security Advisor John Bolton’s statement on new policy guidelines for Cuba is a continuum of historical efforts to maintain the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 and disrupt and undermine an independent country. The campaign against Cuba dates back to the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and has continued fairly unabated with Read more
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