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CUBAN ambassador Teresita Vicente Sotolongo highlighted the need for continued international solidarity with her country in light of Donald Trump’s election as US president.
“President Trump relies too much on Cuban Americans such as Marco Rubio for information,” she said, taking part in conversation with Communist Party general secretary Rob Griffiths.
While most Cuban-Americans favour better relations with Havana, right-wingers such as the Florida Republican senator exercise a political influence beyond their numbers, the ambassador stressed.
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
During visits to Cheney School and Oxford Brookes University, Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter highlighted how Cuba devotes half its budget to education, health and social security despite the US blockade, reports ROGER McKENZIE
