A street in Cuba
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ENDING the illegal US blockade of Cuba is not just about defending Cuba’s right to self-determination but about British sovereignty, Cuba Solidarity Campaign chair Kevin Courtney told a packed fringe meeting on Tuesday night.
The former National Education Union co-leader said Britain opposes the blockade and votes against it at the UN every year — but “the Americans bully banks here, they bully companies here, into behaving as if the blockade operates from this country.”
The idea that Cuba presented any military threat to the United States was absurd, he stressed, “so why do they maintain this cruel blockade? It is the threat of a counter-example the Americans don’t like.
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On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports