Secretary Marco Rubio departs Instanbul, Türkiye May 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett) The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds […]
Cuban workers of the CTC, mass organizations, and visitors from 75 countries march to the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana to celebrate International Workers’ Day 2025. Washington is continuing its permanent political interference campaign in Cuba, through the resumption of funding of active projects financed by the NED. The U.S. government is lifting restrictions
Cubans protest against U.S. imperialism at plaza Mariana Grajales in Guantanamo on February 16, 2025. Photo: Presidencia de Cuba 50,000 Cubans protested in Guantanamo on Wednesday in condemnation of the illegal occupation of Cuban territory. Guantanameros—Cubans from Guantanamo province, young and old, gathered with President Miguel Díaz-Canel in Mariana Grajales Plaza to denounce United States
Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez has once again denounced the use of USAID against Cuba. Between 1998 and 1999 alone, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) spent more than six million dollars (USD) to carry out hundreds of illegal operations in Cuba. Between 2001 and 2006, it allocated $61 million for 142
Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) has denounced the planned use of the island’s occupied territory of Guantanamo and the U.S. torture camp there, to incarcerate migrants forcibly expelled from the United States. Officials described the announcement by President Donald Trump as a demonstration of brutality, through which his government is acting to supposedly rectify
Not a week had passed before Cuba, which was removed from the US State Department’s State-Sponsor of Terrorism list by the outgoing Biden administration, was placed right back on it by Donald Trump. The move was consecrated on Monday (January 20, 2025) via executive order just hours after Trump was inaugurated for his second nonconsecutive
The U.S. president has signed an official certification to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department’s “State Sponsor of Terrorism” list. The document, dated January 14, 2025, ends a period of arbitrarily listing, initiated in the final days of the Trump administration and maintained all four years under President Biden. With only six governing days
U.S. organizations are observing this year’s International Human Rights Day with a call to end the cruel unilateral coercive measures targeting Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on December 10, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A week of actions against sanctions will demand an
The people of the United States and most of the rest of the world woke up this week to the last news they wanted to hear. Not only had Donald J Trump presiding over a proto-fascist Maga mass movement been elected president of the United States, he will enjoy a comfortable Republican majority in the
Statement delivered by Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba during the “General Debate of the 79th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations” New York, 28 September 2024.
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