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CUBA ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT:
Miguel Díaz-Canel becomes president as Raúl Castro leaves office, by Tom Whitney, April 19, 2018 Click here for INFOGRAFIA other leaders elected to the Council of Ministers
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Andrés Gómez in Miami
Raúl, a visionary leader of Our America, Granma, April 9, 2018
Granma shares, in the form of a timeline, some of the most relevant moments in Raúl's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean, through his words -- and action. 
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Interview with Rev. Raúl Suárez Ramos, Founding Director Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Havana,
by Sayonara Tamayo Arjona, trans. by Tom Whitney, April 2018 |
PEOPLES SUMMIT in Lima Peru
"The Peoples’ Summit has been the ideal framework to have important debates, exchange experiences, strengthen the solidarity of our struggles and generally maintain the spirit of resistance and fight against capitalism." 
Cuban delegation arrives in Lima
excellent summary:
Final Declaration of the 2018 Peoples’ Summit in Lima, Peru, Venezuelanalysis, April 16, 2018 
Cuban delegation returns, greeted by Raul, photo: Estudios Revolucion
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Loukie Lofchie 1922 - 2017, photo R Tremblay
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Let Cuba Live is a Maine-based committee organized in 1992 to promote respect for Cuba's sovereignty and independence. Let Cuba Live works for an end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba; an end to travel restrictions that prohibit U.S. citizens from visiting Cuba; normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba; closure of the Guantanamo Naval Base; and freedom for the Cuban Five.
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African Union demands end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba, Jan 31, 2018
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photo: Radioangulo.cu
It's immoral.
“We at IFCO/Pastors for Peace continue to challenge the immorality of the US blockade, firm in the belief that love is the only license we need to normalize relations with Cuba! Now is the time to end the blockade of Cuba!!” Gail Walker, Exec. Director, Pastors for Peace IFCO/Pastors for Peace |
It's counter-productive. “I join the majority of fellow citizens of the United States and call for the U.S. Congress to respect our expressed will to remove the blockade against Cuba that impedes full, respectful, and productive diplomatic relations between the two countries and prevents free and fruitful people-to-people relations.” Danny Glover, Artist, Activist |
It’s destructive. "The vision of self-reliance projected by Fidel is clearly an idea whose time has come for people all over the Third World, a combination of decentralization and centralization which offers an alternative to the capitalist road of economic development imposed by the IMF and the multinationals, which is causing such impoverishment and immiseration in Africa and Latin America."
Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) |
 Bill Hackwell photo
“The thaw in US-Cuba relations may have begun but Cuba is still frozen out by an economic and financial blockade that causes untold suffering for a people fighting for the right to determine their own future.”
Fr. Geoffrey Bottoms, British Catholic priest, UK Solidarity Campaign Let Cuba Live Special Reports:
September 23, 2016 
Let Cuba Live and Caravané d'Amitie Quebec-Cuba
support for Friendshipment Caravan by Tom Whitney, June 30, 2015
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“What country has ever needed help from Cuba and has not received it?.... [I am] proud to be amongst the majority of nations who affirm the right of the Cuban people to determine their own destiny.”
~ Nelson Mandela 
Solidarity with Cuba in a time of change,
by Tom Whitney Dec. 29, 2014 As US-Cuba Talks Proceed,
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According to polls, two thirds of US citizens are against the blockade of Cuba. photo: CUBA News Agencey
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