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Maintaining active solidarity with the peoples of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua remains as vital as ever

ON December 17 2014, president Barack Obama broadcast a historic announcement that the United States would reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. 

This hinted at the possibility of greater changes to come in the long and difficult Cuba-US relationship.  

Obama went on to visit Cuba in March 2016 and all the signs indicated that the long-running blockade of Cuba by the US might be coming to an end.

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