• U.S. diplomatic representation in Cuba is handled by the United States Embassy in Havana, and there is a similar Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. The United States, however, continues to maintain its commercial, economic, and financial embargo, making it illegal for U.S. corporations to do business with Cuba. (wikipedia.org)
  • only Cuba and Puerto Rico remained under Spanish rule until the Spanish-American War (1898) that resulted from the Cuban War of Independence. (wikipedia.org)
  • In response, on August 6, 1960, the Cuban government nationalized all American-owned oil refineries in Cuba. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1961, the U.S. severed diplomatic ties with Cuba and used Cuban exiles and CIA officers in failed attempt to invade the country. (wikipedia.org)
  • In October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Soviet deployments of ballistic missiles in Cuba. (wikipedia.org)
  • Anti-Cuba propaganda is being pushed by the right, but the protests in Cuba are more of a condemnation of U.S. foreign policy than a reflection on the Cuban government. (progressive.org)
  • The truth is that what happens in Florida will likely have more of an impact on the Cuban people than what happens in Cuba itself. (progressive.org)
  • UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, confirms the CIA's assessment of Cuban literacy. (freepress.org)
  • The United States and their ex-patriate Cuban allies responded to the literacy campaign by attacking Cuba in the notorious Bay of Pigs incident. (freepress.org)
  • For text of the Department of State press release of September 29 indicating that the Cuban Government had been informed that day of the U.S. Government's intention to shut down operations at Nicaro in 30 days' time, see Department of State Bulletin , October 17, 1960, pp. 604-605. (state.gov)
  • Ha Noi, Nov. 10 (VNA) -- Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Chau, Head of Viet Nam's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, has expressed Viet Nam's deep concern over the losses and sufferings caused to the Cuban people by the US embargo. (vietnamembassy-usa.org)
  • the BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, from the United States and the Galería Larios, in the Cuban province of Camaguey, where the exhibition will be hold next February. (cubaheadlines.com)
  • Doubts have been cast on claims in the Cuban state media that a Chinese benefactor's massive donation of medical equipment to help fight Covid-19 was blocked at the last minute due to the US embargo. (iwpr.net)
  • The story was reproduced in other Cuban media outlets, without questioning any of the details - particularly why the Ma foundation chose to use a company that had already refused to fly to Cuba for the past several months. (iwpr.net)
  • During his five-day visit to Cuba, the pope called for a spiritual renewal among the Cuban people. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new sanctions against Cuban officials. (translatingcuba.com)
  • EFE/14ymedio, Washington/Havana, 6 January 2022 - The US State Department announced on Thursday the imposition of visa restrictions on eight more Cuban officials, whose identities were not disclosed, for the arrest and prosecution of people who participated in the July 11 protests . (translatingcuba.com)
  • The State Department took measures today to impose visa restrictions on eight Cuban officials implicated in attempts to silence the voices of the Cuban people through repression, unjust detentions and harsh prison sentences," Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained in a statement . (translatingcuba.com)
  • Last November, the United States announced sanctions against nine other Cuban officials against whom it imposed visa restrictions. (translatingcuba.com)
  • When the politically-charismatic Ernesto Che Guevera, once second-in-command to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, was at the United Nations to address the General Assembly sessions back in 1964, the U.N. headquarters came under attack - literally. (ipsnews.net)
  • 14ymedio, Havana, 1 February 2021 - A Cuban immigrant who was shot while entering the United States illegally died Monday in a hospital in Hidalgo, Texas. (translatingcuba.com)
  • Following the devastating impact of Hurricane Ian, the United States is providing to the Cuban people critical humanitarian aid to trusted international partners working directly with Cubans whose communities were devastated by the storm. (aldianews.com)
  • Respondent American commodity broker, contracted with a Cuban corporation largely owned by United States residents to buy Cuban sugar. (findlaw.com)
  • Thereafter, subsequent to the United States Government's reduction of the Cuban sugar quota, the Cuban Government expropriated the corporation's property and rights. (findlaw.com)
  • The world's top four cruise companies have recently lodged appeals against a December 2022 decision by a United States federal judge who held them financially liable for nearly US$451 million for using docks nationalised in the Cuban Revolution, reports Ian Ellis-Jones . (greenleft.org.au)
  • On Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez to address the issue. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Sitting in her living room in Hialeah, Florida, Midalis Rodriguez said something I hadn't expected to hear in America's most overwhelmingly Cuban city: "This country is worse than Cuba. (motherjones.com)
  • But Rodriguez, a permanent resident who came to the United States in 2016, says Cubans trapped in the immigration system have gotten no support from legislators like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a son of Cuban immigrants who is more likely to be heard these days talking about the need to spare Venezuelan refugees from deportation. (motherjones.com)
  • Michael Bustamante, a history professor at Florida International University's Cuban Research Institute who is writing a book about historical memory of the revolution on and off the island, says the skepticism only grew after 2013, when Cuba made it much easier for its citizens to leave and return. (motherjones.com)
  • Cuba: Cuban children wear the uniform of communist youth as they salute and say "Votó! (nationalgeographic.com)
  • We recently analyzed the principal factors that could affect the Cuban economy, including the potential impact of further market-liberalization measures by Cuba and additional measures by the US government. (bcg.com)
  • Sponsored by the Campaign for Solidarity with Cuba (CSC, in Spanish) in UK, the meeting became a platform of support for the Cuban government and people, and rejection of the unilateral US blockade. (plenglish.com)
  • Among the companies that were nationalized, was Compania Azucarera Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba (C.A.V.), a Cuban corporation whose stock was mostly owned by U.S. residents .Washington began an economic blockade and cut off diplomatic relations in January, 1961. (scripophily.net)
  • How can Cuba see ideals like free press, pluralism, allowing an opposition to exist without interpreting these as a threat to Cuban sovereignty? (uscubapolitics.com)
  • One Cuban commented to me, "if there are multiple political parties in Cuba, that means one will be controlled and manipulated by Cubans in Miami. (uscubapolitics.com)
  • He stated that a Cuban demand for normalization is the return of Guantanamo Bay. (uscubapolitics.com)
  • The opposition's main argument is that Cuban dissidents do not support the U.S. opening with Cuba and the U.S. did not get anything in return for the opening. (uscubapolitics.com)
  • In fact, one dissident admonished the United States not to get involved with Cuban internal politics, that this is a matter for Cubans only. (uscubapolitics.com)
  • except for the Cuban American hardliners, they had never visited Cuba and many had received major contributions from the pro-sanctions U.S. Cuba Democracy PAC. (uscubapolitics.com)
  • It is unclear who President Joe Biden thinks has been "enriching themselves" in Cuba, but any criticism of Cuba that does not include a thorough analysis of the internationally condemned U.S. blockade will miss the most important factor in why Cubans are currently undergoing such hardships. (progressive.org)
  • In 1961, Castro was able to announce the United Nations that over 707,000 Cubans had learned to read and write that year. (freepress.org)
  • The announcement that the United States and Cuba would reestablish diplomatic relations took most Cubans by surprise. (ipsnews.net)
  • Two young Cubans, currently touring Australia with the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, are speaking at a public meeting on Cuba's challenges and latest achievements. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The change allowed Cubans to earn dollars in the United States, Bustamante explains, then use that money to pay for things like surgeries or homes in Cuba. (motherjones.com)
  • A 2018 poll from Florida International University showed that 64 percent of Cubans who came to the United States before 1980 supported ending "wet foot, dry foot," compared to only 40 percent of those who came since 1995. (motherjones.com)
  • Mr. Ward also heaped a praise on Cubans for resisting US pressure, and reiterated CWU's support for the international solidarity with Cuba. (plenglish.com)
  • How does the United States promote those human rights ideals without the Cubans being mistrustful? (uscubapolitics.com)
  • The United States became ever more bellicose, so in 1960 Cubans organized Committees for Defense of the Revolution to defend the country. (monthlyreview.org)
  • This led Francis to refer on one occasion at the start of the trip to the danger of a "World War III" occurring "in pieces" (Pope Francis, address at the welcome ceremony, Havana, Cuba, September 19, 2015). (insidethevatican.com)
  • The embassy in Havana will lose 60 percent of its staff and stop processing visas immediately, two senior State Department officials told reporters on Friday. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • On Thursday, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert spoke of the "incidents" - not "attacks" - in Havana, and said they were under review, including with investigations on the ground by the FBI. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Cuba: Propaganda on a Havana street in April of 2015. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Cuba: A participant in a march organized by the wives and female relatives of imprisoned political dissidents rests by a tree in front of Santa Rita Church in Havana, Cuba, in 2015. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Cuba: Soviet-influenced architecture is seen in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, in April 2015. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • President Obama's trip to Havana this spring was the first visit from a US president to Cuba in nearly 90 years. (bcg.com)
  • however, Havana welcomed and united the continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America, which represent 80 percent of the world's population and two thirds of the members of the United Nations. (thecubanhandshake.org)
  • If these were not enough, Cuba opened the floodgate of tourism to cope with lack of funds. (gp.org)
  • Desperately needing funds, Cuba opened the floodgate of tourism, bringing an increase in sex exchanged for money. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Guantanamo Bay became a lease agreement between Cuba and the United States to get a naval base. (newsoxy.com)
  • This was laid out clearly by the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lester Mallory in 1960, when he explicitly called for "denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. (progressive.org)
  • With Cuba's literacy rate at a staggering low 23 percent in 1960, Castro appeared before the United Nations on September 20 and proclaimed the people of Cuba would eliminate illiteracy in a year. (freepress.org)
  • It is housed in an old military base, the one Batista fled Cuba from with the CIA and mob over New Year's in 1959-1960. (freepress.org)
  • The U.S. first imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in 1960 in reaction to the repression and human rights abuses that followed the Marxist revolution that put Fidel Castro in power the previous year. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than five decades of a misguided policy which my uncle, John F. Kennedy, and my father, Robert F. Kennedy, had been responsible for enforcing after the U.S. embargo against the country was first implemented in October 1960 by the Eisenhower administration. (ipsnews.net)
  • In May 2022, the United States refused to invite the island nation to attend the 9th Summit of the Americas, drawing criticism from other Latin American countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mr. Dillon said it was anticipated that recommendations would subsequently be made for strong economic action such as an embargo on the sale of any commodity to Cuba aside from food and medical supplies. (state.gov)
  • The UN General Assembly adopted its solution, reaffirming the need to end economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba. (vietnamembassy-usa.org)
  • This is the ninth consecutive time that the UN General Assembly issue such a solution to demand the US to lift its embargo against Cuba. (vietnamembassy-usa.org)
  • He claimed, without providing any evidence, that Jack Ma - the multi-millionaire founder of the online shop Alibaba - had wanted to send medical supplies to Cuba to fight against the coronavirus pandemic, but been prevented by the US embargo on the island. (iwpr.net)
  • On October 31 2019, Avianca announced that it would suspend flights to Cuba from Colombia and El Salvador as it needed to resolve some issues related to the embargo with the US authorities, and subsequently announced it would stop flights to Cuba altogether from January 2020. (iwpr.net)
  • The US embargo against Cuba has exceptions, including relating to donations. (iwpr.net)
  • It also states that if there is certainty that these supplies could be sold by Cuba to other countries or used to produce "biotechnological" products, then the donation would fall under the embargo laws. (iwpr.net)
  • On the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, one of his emissaries was secretly meeting with Fidel Castro at Varadero Beach in Cuba to discuss terms for ending the U.S. embargo against the island and beginning the process of détente between the two countries. (ipsnews.net)
  • In 'Hard Choices', her new book about her experiences as Secretary of State during U.S. President Barack Obama's first term (2008-2012), Hillary Clinton writes something of prime importance about Cuba - she says that late in her term in office she urged Obama to reconsider the U.S. embargo against Cuba. (ipsnews.net)
  • Cuba is urging the U.N. General Assembly to again condemn the U.S. embargo during its 66th session this week, in an annual ritual that has been a political and moral victory for the socialist nation but with little real impact. (ipsnews.net)
  • The US government issued the embargo after Cuba seized all privately owned assets on the island in 1959, including those of US companies. (bcg.com)
  • The US has repeatedly renewed the embargo since then, most recently through the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, which states that the embargo cannot be lifted unless there is significant political change in Cuba. (bcg.com)
  • The embargo prohibits US companies from trading with Cuba unless they get a permit from the US government. (bcg.com)
  • Although there is great focus on the effect of the US embargo, Cuba has actively courted other countries over many years to expand trade. (bcg.com)
  • In Cuba, the Pope met a nation that, in the eyes of many, seems almost an archaeological find: Cuba still follows a Communist ideology that has been rejected since 1989-91 by most of the other once Communist countries in the world. (insidethevatican.com)
  • Although for many the Communist regimes of the 20th century belong to an increasingly distant past, for Cuba the Communist ideology is still an integral part of life for millions, affecting their day-to-day existence. (insidethevatican.com)
  • Mr. Dulles believed that under the Castro regime, Cuba was now virtually a member of the Communist Bloc. (state.gov)
  • Efforts to tighten the Castro dictatorship and develop Communist control of Cuba are continuing. (state.gov)
  • On April 1, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, Granma, published an article claiming that a planeload of medical supplies was prevented from landing on the island. (iwpr.net)
  • Since 1965, the country has been governed by the Communist Party of Cuba . (wn.com)
  • Cuba, a communist time capsule, drew me in immediately. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In Cuba, as in most Communist countries, the economy is centralized and the majority of the population works for the government. (bcg.com)
  • it is called "The Art Factory" (Fabrica de Arte Cubano) It's in Vedado and was created by X Alfonso,one of the most famous young musicians/signers in Cuba. (fodors.com)
  • Date of adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, Adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 1973. (nationmaster.com)
  • Date of Adoption of the United Nations COnvention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, signed in Vienna on 3 March 1980. (nationmaster.com)
  • Date of adoption of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, initiated in Rome on March 10 1988. (nationmaster.com)
  • He gave several memorable addresses, especially to the US Congress and to the United Nations. (insidethevatican.com)
  • Should Castro manage to survive for another year or more, these nations run the risk of being overtaken by revolution with conditions such as those now existing in Cuba. (state.gov)
  • GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters. (gdacs.org)
  • The United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States once every 4.5 years. (civicus.org)
  • The United States does not apply the same conditions on China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, or other authoritarian nations. (uscubapolitics.com)
  • The Gulf of Mexico represents one massive, interconnected ecosystem bordered by three nations: the United States, Mexico and Cuba. (tpwmagazine.com)
  • In June 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he was suspending the policy for unconditional sanctions relief for Cuba, while also leaving the door open for a "better deal" between the U.S. and Cuba. (wikipedia.org)
  • of Organization of American States meet to consider lifting 10 yr. old sanctions against Cuba. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • She pointed out that Cuba witnessed the sunset of the West and the failure of its repressive and colonial policies and its catastrophic system of illegal sanctions, as well as the unprecedented awakening of the peoples of the countries of the South. (thecubanhandshake.org)
  • In 2016, Obama visited Cuba, becoming the first sitting U.S. president in 88 years to visit the island. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the decision to reestablish diplomatic ties, Cuba and the United States, polar opposites that have long inspired or fomented extremism of different kinds in the Americas, have now become factors of moderation and pragmatism. (ipsnews.net)
  • In United States, government-subsidized manufacturers will be making huge profits - $18 billion for Moderna in 2021. (counterpunch.org)
  • In 1934, Cuba and the United States signed a treaty that gave America a perpetual lease to the area. (newsoxy.com)
  • Geographically, Cuba is considered part of North America . (wn.com)
  • History of Sugar in Cuba - Sugar cane, originating in Asia, was brought to southern Spain by the Arabs, hence it passed to the Canary Islands, of Cape Verde and Madeira, where it was being cultivated at the time of the conquest of America. (scripophily.net)
  • On that day, over sixty years before the pandemic, Cuba laid the foundations for what would become the discovery of novel drugs, bringing patients to the island, and sending medical aid abroad. (gp.org)
  • The United States, puzzled by a spate of bizarre health incidents suffered by its diplomats in Cuba, on Friday ordered the bulk of its embassy staff and their families to go home until they have the answers. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • By 1964, Cuba began creating policlínicos integrales , which were recreated as policlínicos comunitarios in 1974 to better link communities and patients. (gp.org)
  • Cuba overhauled its clinics both in 1964 and again in 1974 to better link communities and patients. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia are the major producers. (cdc.gov)
  • Article 746.2 of the legislation mandates that American companies do not need authorisation to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, while Article 740.12 only bans donations of medical supplies that could be used to torture or violate people's rights. (iwpr.net)
  • A sign against the U.S. blockade of Cuba at a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (progressive.org)
  • Green Left journalist Ben Radford speaks to Isaac Nellist about his first-hand experience in Cuba and the impacts of the United States-imposed blockade. (greenleft.org.au)
  • London, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) The British Trade Unionist and General Secretary of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) Dave Ward on Tuesday called for the end to the US blockade and redoubled solidarity with Cuba. (plenglish.com)
  • CSC´s Communication Director Natasha Hickman condemned the extraterritoriality of the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for over 60 years, and its tightening in recent years. (plenglish.com)
  • Representatives of 134 countries arrived in Cuba in an unprecedented challenge to the unjust blockade imposed by the United States and its allies on Cuba for almost 60 years, the senior official said in an opinion article published in the Al-Watan newspaper. (thecubanhandshake.org)
  • If there are no abbreviations, the type of the adoption of the treaty by the member states is not specifically indicated. (nationmaster.com)
  • In 1998, not long after he became archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, then-Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio published a booklet focused on the speeches and homilies St. John Paul II made during his historic visit to Cuba a few months earlier. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • He renewed Viet Nam's full support, comprehensive cooperation and solidarity with Cuba. (vietnamembassy-usa.org)
  • This year's May Day celebration in Cuba was interrupted by severe storms that knocked out electricity in much of the country, but this didn't dampen the spirits of more than 150 activists from the United States visiting on a solidarity delegation, reports Walter Smolarek . (greenleft.org.au)
  • Dr John Falzon told a May Day toast that Cuba shows the example of internationalism and solidarity with all the peoples of the world. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The protests pale in comparison, both in terms of turnout and in state repression, to mass mobilizations that have rocked Colombia, Haiti, Chile, Ecuador, and other Latin American countries over the past few years-or even those in Portland, Oregon in 2020, or Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. (progressive.org)
  • However, according to a report by the Associated Press news agency, Cainiao chose Avianca to deliver to Cuba and other countries in the region such as Panama, Bolivia and Colombia. (iwpr.net)
  • Civic space in Bangladesh and Colombia is rated as Repressed , whereas Cuba and Djibouti's is rated as Closed by the CIVICUS Monitor . (civicus.org)
  • A few years later, Che joined Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement as a doctor and was among the eighty-one men aboard the Granma as it landed in Cuba on December 2, 1956. (monthlyreview.org)
  • But the facts showed that (1) soldiers returning from Africa were overwhelmingly heterosexual (as were most African AIDS victims), (2) Cuba had quarantined dengue patients with no outcry, and (3) the US itself had a history of quarantining patients with tuberculosis, polio, and even AIDS. (gp.org)
  • I'd like to welcome you to today's COCA Call, 'What Clinicians Need to Know about Dengue in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to accomplish the following: Describe current dengue epidemiology and the populations who are at greatest risk for dengue and severe dengue in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Castro 's bitter anti-American speech last night 2 indicated that Guantanamo would now be a major propaganda theme in Cuba. (state.gov)
  • Counties and county equivalents (independent and coextensive cities) are numbered alphabetically within each State and identify each county with a population of 100,000 or more in 2000. (cdc.gov)
  • The US government had the Central Intelligence Agency recruit operatives in Cuba to carry out a violent campaign of terrorism and sabotage on the island, killing civilians and causing economic damage. (wikipedia.org)
  • Experts here are stepping up calls for the U.S. government to remove Cuba from an official list of "state sponsors of terrorism", arguing that the country's presence on the list is anachronistic and makes neither legal nor political sense. (ipsnews.net)
  • Since Fiscal Year 2017, the United States has provided more than $140 million, including nearly $97 million in humanitarian assistance and approximately $44 million in development assistance, to support the generous efforts of countries hosting Venezuelans who have fled the chaos in their homeland. (usembassy.gov)
  • Secretary Dillon said the U.S. was now beginning to implement certain actions with respect to Cuba and was clearing the decks for the forthcoming implementation of certain other actions. (state.gov)
  • Noted an oral report by the Acting Secretary of State on recent and contemplated U.S. actions with respect to the situation in Cuba. (state.gov)
  • Through his Twitter account, Secretary of State Antony Blinken then announced the measure and reiterated his administration's support for the island's people "in their fight for fundamental freedoms. (translatingcuba.com)
  • These efforts follow Secretary Pompeo's January 24, announcement that the United States is ready to provide more than $20 million in initial humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela, as they struggle to cope with severe food and medicine shortages and other dire impacts of their country's political, and Maduro-made economic and humanitarian crisis. (usembassy.gov)
  • I had the privilege of visiting Cuba's National Literacy Museum on February 10th , 2015 as part of a Code Pink "To Cuba with Love" delegation. (freepress.org)
  • The District Court concluded that the corporation's property interest in the sugar was subject to Cuba's territorial jurisdiction and acknowledged the 'act of state' doctrine, which precludes judicial inquiry in this country respecting the public acts of a recognized foreign sovereign power committed within its own territory. (findlaw.com)
  • Cuba's united and well-planned effort to cope with HIV/AIDS paid off. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The evacuation of U.S. citizens from [Page 1076] Cuba has been speeded up. (state.gov)
  • For foreign citizens who want to live permanently in the United States. (usembassy.gov)
  • The order is coupled with a new travel notice issued Friday warning U.S. citizens against traveling to Cuba. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • While no tourists have been targeted, the State Department isn't taking any chances and is now warning all U.S. citizens to steer clear of the island. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Because our personnel's safety is at risk and we are unable to identify the source of the attacks, we believe that U.S. citizens may also be at risk and warn them not to travel to Cuba," said a senior State Department official. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • These are the largest protests to hit Cuba in three decades, and they may well continue in the coming weeks. (progressive.org)
  • There has not been this much activity on U.S. Cuba relations in decades and all of it portends progress in the long run. (uscubapolitics.com)
  • It was proved during the Summit that the United States and Europe are isolated from the majority of humanity and that Cuba, which they tried to besiege for decades, is today the source of inspiration for the peoples, thanks to its sustainable resistance and its defense of the values of well-being and justice, the presidential advisor noted. (thecubanhandshake.org)
  • Jamahiriya, and United Arab Emirates are currently members of the Joint Coordinating Board. (who.int)
  • As you have so accurately pictured, the great majority of the liberal middle-class elements in Cuba, which were primarily responsible for Castro 's accession to power, have now withdrawn their support and many have fled the country to engage in open opposition to the Castro regime. (state.gov)
  • Castro 's open bid for a satellite role has had the effect of thoroughly alarming most of the Governments in this Hemisphere and, hopefully, has disposed many of them to support pressures and efforts to bring about a change of regime in Cuba. (state.gov)
  • We did wish to maintain a listening post in Cuba but feel that representation there at the ambassadorial level is no longer effective since the Ambassador's movements have been restricted by the Castro regime and he has no influence with that regime. (state.gov)
  • The normalisation of relations between Cuba and the United States opens up a new path of "readjustments not free of risks", which forms part of the process of "national transformation" ushered in by Raúl Castro, said Lenier González, one of the creators of the citizen initiative Cuba Posible. (ipsnews.net)
  • This is a famous sugar company that was nationalized when Castro took over in Cuba. (scripophily.net)
  • the U.S. gained a position of economic and political dominance over the island, which persisted after Cuba became formally independent in 1902. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1 sentence (2½ lines) not declassified ] On September 10 the first major Soviet Bloc arms shipment reached Cuba. (state.gov)
  • Cuba - CIVICUS, the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD) and Gobierno y Análisis Político AC (GAPAC) detail the government persistent failure to address unwarranted restrictions on civic space, both in law and in practice. (civicus.org)
  • Moreover, the Government's virulent anti-United States campaign until now has had singularly little effect despite its control and utilization of all the public information media in the country. (state.gov)
  • 4. The Government's uncontested assertion that the two State Department letters expressed only the then wish of the Department to avoid commenting on the litigation, obviates the need for this Court to pass upon the 'Bernstein exception' to the act of state doctrine, under which a court may respond to a representation by the Executive Branch that in particular circumstances it does not oppose judicial consideration of the foreign state's act. (findlaw.com)
  • He said that differences between the US and Cuba should be solved through dialogues and negotiations on the basis of mutual respect for each country's independence and national sovereignty, and non-interference in each other's internal affairs. (vietnamembassy-usa.org)
  • Cuba has decided to move ahead in its talks with the European Union towards an agreement on cooperation parallel to the negotiations aimed at normalising relations with the United States after more than half a century of hostility. (ipsnews.net)
  • 7. A foreign country's status as a plaintiff does not make the act of state doctrine inapplicable. (findlaw.com)
  • 5 The evacuation of the dependents of U.S. Government employees is intended as an example to the other members of the U.S. community in Cuba, who have been advised to leave the country. (state.gov)
  • Price also stressed that the United States will work with trusted independent organizations that operate in the country and have a long-standing presence in communities affected by the hurricanes. (aldianews.com)
  • is a country comprising the islands of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud and several archipelagos in the Caribbean Sea . (wn.com)
  • Cuba is a Caribbean island country. (wn.com)
  • The submissions examine the state of civil society in each country, including the promotion and protection of the rights to freedom of association, assembly and expression and the environment for human rights defenders. (civicus.org)
  • Two whammies pounded Cuba in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (gp.org)
  • In the early 1990s, at the same time that Cuba had two hundred AIDS cases, New York City (with about the same population) had forty-three thousand cases. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Cuba and the United States restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2015, after relations had been severed in 1961 during the Cold War. (wikipedia.org)
  • In perhaps his boldest foreign-policy move during his presidency, Barack Obama Wednesday announced that he intends to establish full diplomatic relations with Cuba. (ipsnews.net)
  • If President Barack Obama wants to move more quickly to normalise ties with Cuba, it appears he has gained the political space to do so, according to analyses of a major new bipartisan public-opinion poll released here Tuesday by the Atlantic Council. (ipsnews.net)
  • The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will provide $2 million in funding for emergency relief to those in need in Cuba," said in a statement Ned Price , State Department spokesperson. (aldianews.com)
  • Probably because it doesn't fit into their narrative of Cuba as a dictatorship, almost no mainstream media covered the recent elections in Cuba, reports Excluded Headlines . (greenleft.org.au)
  • As a fragile republic, Cuba attempted to strengthen its democratic system , but mounting political radicalization and social strife culminated in the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1952. (wn.com)
  • Cuba," the author states in his introduction, "is not just a 'relic' of the ideological 20th century. (insidethevatican.com)
  • Pope Francis' September 2015 trip started in Cuba and then took him to Washington, New York and Philadelphia in the United States. (insidethevatican.com)
  • The Pope then left Cuba for the United States. (insidethevatican.com)
  • VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Francis will visit Cuba in September before his trip to the United States. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters April 22 that the pope has 'received and accepted the invitation from the civil authorities and bishops of Cuba' and has decided to visit the island before going to the United States. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • Visiting Cuba and the United States on the same trip abroad signals Pope Francis' continuing interest in encouraging the normalization of relations between them. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • During his 2012 visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI made the same points. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • What's happening in Cuba should also be understood in the context of a brutal economic war being waged by the United States against the island nation for more than sixty years. (progressive.org)
  • Cuba is one of the largest economies in the Caribbean, with 11 million people and an estimated GDP of roughly $82 billion as of 2014. (bcg.com)
  • In 2007, 15 scientists each from the U.S. and Cuba met in Cancún to discuss how they could collaborate, coming up with a formal name for their efforts: the Trinational Initiative for Marine Science and Conservation in the Gulf of Mexico and Western Caribbean. (tpwmagazine.com)
  • As a nearby market, the United States has become highly dependent upon the Caribbean producers for its imports of crude oil and petroleum products. (cdc.gov)
  • Cuba has the largest reserves of nickel in the world and is the only significant producer of cobalt in the Caribbean. (cdc.gov)
  • In June 2019, the Trump administration announced new restrictions on American travel to Cuba. (wikipedia.org)
  • Damascus, Sep 18 (Prensa Latina) The adviser to Syrian President, Bouzeina Shabaan, said on Monday that through the G77+China Summit Cuba managed to unite the countries of the South against the North represented by the United States and Europe. (thecubanhandshake.org)
  • Official economic data about Cuba is scarce and not easily comparable with that of other countries. (bcg.com)
  • And it has had the secondary effect of discouraging companies based in other countries from doing business with Cuba, owing to potential ramifications for their US operations. (bcg.com)
  • We looked for a way to officially engage Cuba and decided to bring all three countries together in some kind of initiative. (tpwmagazine.com)
  • We are taking steps to suspend the entry into the United States of nine people, including high-ranking members of the Ministries of the Interior and the Armed Forces. (translatingcuba.com)
  • At the same time, Archbishop Bergoglio repeatedly argued for the full freedom of the Catholic Church in Cuba to preach the Gospel and minister to the poor and denounced ideological systems that offended the transcendent dignity of the human person. (elmensajerorochester.com)
  • Beginning in 1818, when Spain decreed freedom for foreign trade, Cuba took its place as the world's greatest sugar producer. (scripophily.net)
  • Petitioner brought this action for conversion of the bills of lading to recover payment from the broker and to enjoin from exercising dominion over the proceeds a receiver who had been appointed by a state court to protect the New York assets of the corporation. (findlaw.com)
  • 1. The privilege of resorting to United States courts being available to a recognized sovereign power not at war with the United States, and not being dependent upon reciprocity of treatment, petitioner has access to the federal courts. (findlaw.com)
  • The playwright Yunior García Aguilera , one of the leaders of the Archipelago platform and the main promoter of 15N (15 November) , had to leave Cuba after the acts of repudiation against him orchestrated by the regime. (translatingcuba.com)
  • U.S. officials are at a loss as to what's causing diplomats to go deaf in Cuba. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The decision to pull out diplomats is the latest bump in the road of already rocky U.S.-Cuba relations since President Donald Trump took office, and it suggests intensifying U.S. concern about the mysterious ailments plaguing diplomats that have left officials and experts scratching their heads. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States as part of their official duties are in the public domain. (jfklibrary.org)