Month: March 2019

  Pauline and Sylvia attended an International Women’s Day play on Saturday 9th March 2019 at the Labour Hall venue in Worthing, Sussex. Part of it was a piece about the great achievements by and for Cuban women during and since the Cuban revolution.   Posted by Sylvia Knight on Friday, 8 March...

IFCO’s CubaBuzz: Issue 140 Who is Teo Babún and why is he going after Cuba? Granma, february 21, 2019 Efforts by the United States government to disrupt unity between Cuban religions and the Revolution have a long history. Attempts have been made to manipulate ties between religious institutions and the state on several occasions, over the past 60 years. But the current administration of Donald Trump – along with resuscitating the Monroe Doctrine and expanding subversive projects in Cuba – has been more explicit about its intention of promoting division. The position of the Cuban government has been entirely ignored, and its express disposition, as stated by the Comandante en Jefe during a trip to Jamaica in 1977, to “work together, so that when the political idea triumphs, the religious is not set aside, or appears to be an enemy of change. No contradiction exists between the objectives of religion and the objectives of socialism.” Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba Truthout, Feb 24, 2019 The Trump administration is threatening to unleash a flood of lawsuits involving Cuba, which no U.S. president has ever done. It has set a deadline of March 2 to announce whether it will create, in the words of the National Lawyers Guild, “a second embargo” of Cuba — “one that would be very difficult to dismantle in the future.” Trump may give current...