cuba

A new campaign has begun: Let Cuba Play.
[Updated with new info]

The #Trump administration in the #USA has refused to grant visas to Cuban athletes who need to compete in various events in the upcoming months in order to qualify for the 2028 #OlympicGames in #LosAngeles.

#Cuba #sports #news #politics #Olympics #USpol #HumanRights

@HarriettMB

https://www.letcubaplay.com/

After a devastating landfall in #Jamaica, Major Hurricane #Melissa has emerged north of the island. In a few hours it will strike again, this time in southern #Cuba.

#Protest text/graphic for tshirts, posters, etc

I came up with the design using the #LibreOffice Writer word processor and sent it to a vendor on Etsy to make a 2-sided #tshirt. (Anyone interested in getting this shirt can go to https://www.etsy.com/listing/1690766536/personalized-text-design-shirt-custom and ask for a "Tax The Rich" tshirt based on order #4008923866. Specify front or front and back.)

Here is a link to a PNG file on WikiMedia Commons if anyone wants to use it.
https://w.wiki/Kzuj

#DefendFreeSpeech #AbolishICE #StopGovernmenttCutbacks #TaxTheRich #LetCubaLive #NoArmsToIsrael #EndWarWithIran
#politics #GraphicDesign #Iran #Cuba #Israel #Palestine #ICE #USpol

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Entire world votes to end the blockade on #Cuba except:
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The leaders of Mexico, Brazil and Spain are calling for Cuba’s sovereignty to be respected amid President Trump’s continual pressure campaign, which includes overtures of removing the island nation’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel. @AlJazeera has more:

https://flip.it/uIYrbb

#News #WorldNews #USA #Cuba #Politics #Mexico #Brazil #Spain

Democrats file #Cuba war powers resolution

“ #Trump has been threatening a “takeover” of Cuba, prompting Senate Democrats yesterday to file legislation to stop him from going to war against Cuba without congressional approval.

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said in a statement: “Only Congress has the power to declare war under the Constitution, but [Trump] operates with the belief that the U.S. military is a palace guard…”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5782836-war-powers-resolution-cuba/

Letter to an Alien

#billionaires #oligarchy #Finance #money #fascism #democracy #StopGenocide #US #Europe #AI #water #Resistance #USpol #Cuba #Earth #Ecology #Thirst
#LetterToAnAlien

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Officials in #Cuba report an island-wide #blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its #energy & economic crises deepen.

The Ministry of Energy & Mines reported on X a “complete disconnection” of the country’s #electric system & says it is investigating.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday warned that the island had not received #oil shipments in >3 months & that it was operating on #solar power, natural #gas & #thermoelectric plants.

#geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-power-outage-electricity-4dcd92d4b7b3bbeda88622b543074ceb?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-03-16-Breaking+News

Powerful Nelson Mandela Interview at Town Hall, USA that amazed the whole world (June 21st 1990) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQIEIRLU1Y

Recommended. Take the time to listen to what he has to say. Note that this interview happened the same year that Mandela was released from prison, and therefore before the end of apartheid.

#Mandela #NelsonMandela #SouthAfrica
#Racism #RightWing #Apartheid
#Palestine #Israel #Cuba #Lybia

This is insane. Who does he think he is? He is out of control!

#Trump Told #Cuba That Its President Has to Go

The #US has told Cuba that for meaningful progress to be made in negotiations, President #MiguelDíazCanel must step down, said people familiar with the talks.

#NationalSecurity #warmonger #MadWithPower #MafiaState #imperialism #sovereignty #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/trump-cuba-president-diaz-canel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Cuba has given the world doctors, vaccines, literacy, and solidarity. Now it's our turn. La Via Campesina has launched a global fundraiser to get essential aid to Cuban peasants and rural workers. Stand with Cuba. Donate now. #SolidarityWithCuba

https://viacampesina.org/en/cuba-solidarity-2026/

#Cuba est aujourd’hui plongée dans l’emprise d’un blocus sévère imposé par les États-Unis depuis plus de 60 ans. Et aujourd’hui, le 17 mai, qui marque la Journée de la paysannerie cubaine ainsi que l’anniversaire de la Première Réforme agraire à Cuba, nous lançons la campagne mondiale : « Contre le blocus ! Solidarité paysanne, agroécologie et souveraineté alimentaire ! »

https://viacampesina.org/fr/cuba-solidarite-2026/

Cuba se encuentra sometida a un severo bloqueo impuesto por Estados Unidos desde hace más de 60 años. Y hoy, 17 de mayo, el Día del Campesino Cubano y el aniversario de la primera Reforma Agraria en #Cuba, lanzamos la campaña global: «¡Contra el bloqueo! ¡Solidaridad Campesina, Agroecología y Soberanía Alimentaria!»

https://viacampesina.org/es/cuba-solidaridad-2026/

Buenos, antiimperialistas y antisionistas días ✨

Hoy he soñado que EEUU invadía #Cuba y lo repelía con bravura y valentía. Yo estaba allí para verlo y más tarde haciendo pancartas para una manifestación contra la invasión.

No nos olvidemos de Cuba, hay que forzar a nuestro gobierno a ayudar a un país hermano, y no acatar las órdenes del imperio

Is #Trump seriously about to invade #Cuba right now?! Wtf is wrong with these people?!

Former Cuban President #RaulCastro is #indicted in #US as #Trump pushes for #RegimeChange in #Cuba

#law #InternationalLaw #sovereignty
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-expected-unveil-criminal-charges-against-cubas-raul-castro-2026-05-20/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

#US military intelligence-gathering flights are surging off the coast of #Cuba, a CNN analysis of publicly available aviation data shows.

Since Feb 4, the US Navy & Air Force have conducted at least 25 such flights using manned aircraft & drones, most of them near the country’s two biggest cities, Havana & Santiago de Cuba, & some coming within 40 miles of the coast, acc/to FlightRadar24.

#Trump #imperialism #LandGrab #law #WarPowers #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/americas/us-spy-flights-cuba-latam-intl

Buenos, antiimperialistas y antisionistas días ✨

EEUU vuelve a arremeter contra #Cuba, esta vez acusando a Raúl Castro con falsas narrativas para intentar confundir a la opinión pública. Para saber lo que realmente pasó y refrescar la memoria, en este video lo explican bien clarito:

Viva La Revolución! Patria o muerte!!

https://youtu.be/HO4EWankWtM?is=lR9Ls1CdgS25vsGw

#Trump #MafiaState #Imperialism

#Cuba Has Run Out of #Oil

Cuba's oil reserves have run dry, its government said, potentially plunging the country into more debilitating #blackouts.

A long-running #EnergyCrisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.

This whole world runs on #FossilFuels, how stupid is that?

#geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/americas/cuba-oil-energy-crisis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The #US #DOJ is preparing to seek an #indictment against former #Cuba President #RaúlCastro, 3 people familiar with the matter told AP Friday, as #Trump threatens possible #military action against the communist-run island.

One of the people told AP that the potential indictment is connected to Castro’s alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of 4 planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue. #Castro was defense minister at the time.

#law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/raul-castro-cuba-doj-indictment-trump-40939c6644185652649bc90d4e445394

Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

People are dying, systems are breaking down.

This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

It’s a blatant violation of international law, a crime in progress.

Canadians are connected to Cuba: we’ve been welcomed, had great holidays, heard incredible music, done business and made friends.

We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump:
Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble.

And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

#cdnpoli #cuba #cubaSolidarity

Tomo prestadas las palabras de Enrique Ubieta Gómez en su libro: "Ser, parecer, tener. Debates en y por la Isla Desconocida", capítulo: "Destinos elegidos", página 120.

"...vivo en este país porque la Revolución otorga un sentido a mi vida. Vivo en Cuba no porque sea cubano, sino porque soy revolucionario. Si alguna vez naufraga mi Revolución, quedaría a la deriva, y cualquier puerto sería aceptable. Entonces me dedicaría a recomponer la embarcación de la Utopía para regresar, no a un lugar, sino a una esperanza..."
#cita #Cuba #revolución

I just got back from almost 2 weeks in #Cuba last night. It was a rough trip! I spent the time in Central #Havana and the outskirts of the nearby city of #Matanzas. If you've heard of how difficult the living conditions are due to the U.S. blockade of oil, it's just as bad as you imagined.

I used to go once or twice a year, but this was my first time back in 12 years. Big difference!

There are power outages constantly that last for hours or days. It's too hot to sleep and you can't even turn on a fan. Depending on the household, the water supply may be just as unreliable as the electricity. When you get water, you collect it in every bucket you can find. But use it sparingly for washing yourself lest you don't have another bucket with which to flush the toilet! Same for the supply of cooking gas. People burn charcoal or wood on makeshift barbeques made out of the cages of fans or the hub of a car's wheel or whatever they can fashion together.

There's not enough diesel for the garbage trucks, so the trash keeps piling up in the streets until the stench is too much to endure, at which point somebody sets fire to it. And it can smoulder for days. I assume for the same fuel shortage reason, there isn't the level of police patrols that there were in the past (I was there for a week before I saw a cop). There hasn't been city buses in Havana for 2 or 3 months.

A new electric vehicle called a tri-cycle, that can transport 4 to 6 people, is taking over the job of the buses. Solar panels are being installed everywhere. Everyone talks about getting an "ecoflow" (they use it like a word and not a product name). But the price of solar panels and house batteries are far out of reach for most people.

Oh, and about that U.S. blockade... I noticed a great deal more American products than ever before. It left me with the impression that the blockade is now about being the exclusive supplier to the island over whatever they thought it would accomplish before.