Cuba

Cuba could be on the brink of a revolutionary COVID vaccine, but US sanctions are slowing it down

Nov 27, 2020 16:50

Dr. Helen Yaffe of Glasgow University, author of “We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World,” said: “Cuba now has four COVID-specific vaccine candidates under clinical trial. The fact that a small Caribbean island can achieve such a remarkable feat is testimony to its state-owned biotech sector, which is directed towards public health demands and integrated into its healthcare and education systems.
Storm Eta on track to Florida after pounding Cuba

Nov 09, 2020 10:18

Residents of Florida were preparing themselves on Sunday as Tropical Storm Eta began to head towards the southern US state.
Iran, Cuba discuss enhanced global solidarity to counter US' economic terrorism

Nov 07, 2020 14:06

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he held talks with senior Cuban authorities about ways to strengthen global solidarity in the face of the US' economic terrorism and to promote bilateral relations.
Zarif arrives in Havana after extensive talks in Caracas

Nov 06, 2020 10:31

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has arrived in the Cuban capital of Havana in the second leg of a Latin American tour, which earlier took him to Venezuela and is expected to end in Bolivia.
US pullout from JCPOA, INF to seriously harm intl. security, Cuba warns

Oct 04, 2020 05:23

Cuba’s foreign minister has warned about the serious repercussions of the Trump administration’s decisions to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as well as the Treaty of Short and Intermediate Range Missiles (INF) with Russia.
At UN, Venezuela, Cuba rebuke US hegemony

Sep 22, 2020 15:04

Venezuela and Cuba have called on the international community to put up a united front and fight the United States’ hegemony and its blockade against nations at a time of global crises, including the coronavirus pandemic.
US bans private charter flights to Cuba to increase pressure on Havana

Aug 14, 2020 02:57

The United States says it is suspending all private charter flights to Cuba, in yet another move to intensify economic pressure on the government of President Raul Castro over human rights accusations and its support for the Venezuelan government, which Washington seeks to overthrow.
Trump hammers Cuba while Cuba cures the sick

Jun 21, 2020 14:49

A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of the sanctions screws.
Sanctioned countries are now leading the world in the fight against coronavirus

Apr 27, 2020 11:41

Despite weeks of warning where it could have taken precautionary steps, the United States currently has four times the confirmed coronavirus cases and twice the deaths of any other country. At the same time, the countries it is currently placing under economic siege, totaling around a quarter of the world’s population, are faring far better and leading the global fight against the coronavirus.
With a quarter of the world’s population under US sanctions, countries appeal to UN to intervene

Apr 01, 2020 03:38

The governments of China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela – all under sanctions from the United States – sent a joint statement to the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights and the Director-General of the World Health Organization calling for an end to the unilateral American economic blockade, as they are, “illegal and blatantly violate international law and the charter of the United Nations.”