Cuba: A Tale of Two Hurricanes
Ernest Hemingway learned in Cuba that the best way to get through a hurricane is to have your ears tuned to a battery-powered radio and keep your hands busy with a bottle of rum and a hammer to nail...
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The Entire World, Yet Again, Is Demanding an End to the US Blockade of Cuba
Immoral, illegal, archaic, coercive, intimidating, criminal, absurd, reckless, brutal — even genocidal. These were some of the adjectives used by global leaders at the United Nations as they took to...
View ArticleCuba’s Victory at the UN
For the thirtieth consecutive year nations of the world have voted overwhelmingly to approve a Cuban resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic blockade. The most recent vote, on November 3,...
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US Youth Observe Cuba’s Elections – And Learn About Real Democracy
Cuba held elections for its organs of local government, the Municipal Assemblies of People’s Power, on November 27. A delegation of youth from the United States observed the vote first-hand as part of...
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We Asked Cuban Voters If They Live In A Democracy Or Dictatorship. Here’s How...
We’re told that Cuba is a dictatorship that doesn’t have democracy. To see for ourselves, BreakThrough News observed Municipal Assembly elections last month. BT’s Kei Pritsker spoke to voters to ask...
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Cuba Says Biden Applies Blockade Even More Aggressively Than His Predecessors
“The current U.S. government, the one of Joseph Biden, of all those that the Cuban Revolution has known, is the one that has most aggressively and effectively applied the economic blockade,” Carlos...
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Mexico’s AMLO Announces Campaign Against US Blockade of Cuba, Denounces...
Mexico’s progressive President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that his country will lead an international movement to end the US government’s illegal blockade against Cuba. The Mexican...
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Havana Syndrome Is Fake. But Mainstream Media Couldn’t Get Enough of It for...
There was a minor bit of good news in the midst of a chaotic world this week. We can finally stop pretending “Havana syndrome” is real, because US intelligence has just more or less admitted it isn’t....
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Cuba Elects New National Assembly
Pragya Singh talks with Zoe Alexandra about the new National Assembly in Cuba which was elected through a participatory democratic process.
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The US Blockade of Cuba is a Violation of Democracy
This op-ed is based on a speech that Calla Walsh gave at the Counter-Summit for Democracy. The only criteria to be invited to Biden’s so-called Summit for Democracy on March 29 and 30 was to be a...
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Young People From the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege
It’s a hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana, and the air sticks to the skin. You can hear the fluttering of paper as people fan themselves, and a surprise blackout...
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May Day in Havana: International Solidarity to Resist the U.S. Blockade
This year’s May Day celebration in Cuba was interrupted by severe storms that knocked out electricity in much of the country. Authorities had no choice but to postpone the traditional mass marches. But...
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The Washington Consensus Supporting Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Is Breaking
Twenty-one members of Congress last week called for lifting US sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, including most of the Squad. The pushback is needed: sanctions are a cruel economic weapon that hurts...
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People First: Cuba’s State Plan to Confront Climate Change
In 2017, the Cuban government approved the State Plan to Confront Climate Change, known in Cuba as Tarea Vida (Life Task). With a projection up to the year 2100, Tarea Vida is the world’s only truly...
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The US Is Punishing Cuba to Send a Message to the Whole World
Last month, I traveled to Cuba as part of a seven-day youth delegation, organized by the International Peoples’ Assembly, to meet Cuban activists and learn about conditions under US sanctions. A common...
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The Fuel Shortages in Cuba are Worse Than You Think
One hundred and fifty young people from the United States and Canada arrived in Cuba in late April 2023, just days before International Workers Day. As members of CODEPINK’s youth cohort, our goal was...
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As Media and Military Hawks Push War With China, Cuba Is Caught in the Crossfire
In the repertoire of foreign policy combatants in Washington’s corridors of power, there is a time-tested ploy: Conservatives in the military or intelligence bureaucracy leak damaging information to...
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Activists Call on Biden to Take Cuba Off “Sponsors of Terrorism” List
On June 25, hundreds of activists marched to the White House in Washington DC to demand US president Joe Biden take Cuba off the list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism” and lift the 63 year blockade...
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European Parliament Approves Vicious Anti-Cuba Resolution
Signs were evident. Touring Spain in May, the Cuban musical duo Buena Fe (Good Faith) had their concerts disrupted by thugs; some were canceled. A month later in Paris, protests orchestrated by a...
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Cuba Reaffirms Socialism While It Reckons With Its Private Sector
Seventy years have passed since Fidel Castro and a daring group of young Cubans launched an assault on the Moncada Barracks in eastern Cuba, aiming to topple the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Despite...
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