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A NEW US presidency should be an opportunity to reverse the damage of the Donald Trump years and renew pressure to end the illegal blockade, a Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) online rally heard on Monday night.
Cuban ambassador to the United States Jose Ramon Cabanas said the impact of the crippling blockade had been even more severe amid a global pandemic.
The Trump administration had passed 225 measures against Cuba in a bid to force “Cuba on our knees,” Mr Cabanas said, describing its bid to block off all Cuban imports and the sanctioning of banks, including British banks, for daring to conduct transactions with the island.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
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
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON