Statement by Cuban Ambassador Yuri Ariel Gala López

"...Cuba does not need lessons on democracy and human rights, much less from the United States. We will not accept questions of this nature, even more so when they are used to justify the longest and broadest system of unilateral coercive measures ever applied against any State..."

MAINE joins worldwide rallies in support of Cuba's anti-blockade resolution to be presented to the UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nov. 2-3 
Yesterday in Times Square we marched demanding an end to the blockade of Cuba! The people of the U.S. join the world in saying time is up! The UN General Assembly Vote is happening Nov 2nd & 3rd. IFCO/PastorsforPeace

​Peace Groups Say 'Let Cuba Live' at US Rallies Ahead of UN Vote on Anti-Embargo Resolution 
For the 30th straight year, Cuba will submit—and the world's nations will overwhelmingly approve—a General Assembly resolution demanding an end to the devastating U.S. economic blockade of the socialist nation.
CommonDreams

UNVOTE4CUBA

Photos from LetCubaLive rally Brunswick Maine October 29. Click each to view full size.

Demonstrations in New York, Los Angeles and other Cities Call for an End to the Blockade on Cuba
​Resumen

#CODÍGOSI

Without Culture, Freedom is Impossible 
Tricontinental Newsletter 22, Vijay Prashad

The new Family Code, drafted in consultation with the general public, is considered to be the world’s most inclusive and progressive code
People's Dispatch

Helen Yaffe interview BBC on implications of Cuba's Family Code
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z7PgkZehlY 

Cuba will continue to raise its voice to reject domination and hegemonism: Speech by Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, at the UN General Assembly, September 21, 2022, thanks to Chicago ALBA Solidarity

“It is an injustice”: Gustavo Petro asks the United States to remove Cuba from the list of countries that promote terrorism
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The G-77+China is made up of 134 countries, representing two-thirds of the UN membership. Sep. 23, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/@BrunoRguezP

COMING UP :

Witness For Peace February Trip to Cuba (scroll down)

United Nations to vote for 30th consecutive year against the US Blockade of Cuba. The date of this annual resolution and vote, introduced each year since 1992 by Cuba, on the “necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial embargo imposed by the United of America against Cuba,” is November 2-3.
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A dedicated and fearless friend of Cuba, shown here in Miami

Connie Canney Presenté

Connie Canney: A life well lived
from the Gainesville Iguana
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" The United States currently has sanctions programs targeting over twenty countries. In 2019, 88 percent of international transactions involved US dollars, giving the United States extraordinary power over global trade. By 2018, the National Association of Cuban Economists calculated the cost of the blockade to be $4.4 billion annually.. In 2021, the UN General Assembly voted, for the twenty-ninth consecutive year, to end the US blockade of Cuba. International bodies have documented the high cost in terms of human suffering, which, along with their exterritorial character, puts US sanctions on Cuba in violation of international treaties and conventions." The US Blockade in Cuba is an Act of War, Helen Yaffe in Jacobin.

"Last week, US President Joe Biden extended for one more year the sanctions on Cuba, arguing the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917....   Cuba’s response was not long in coming. President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, as well as several high-ranking Cuban diplomats, criticized Biden’s cowardly decision and ratified Cuban’s will of not kneeling down before the extortions of any foreign government. Cuba is socialist because we decided so in 1961 and ratified it after every Constitution." The US Keeps Betting on Cuba Surrendering Out of Hunger and Desperation  Gustavo Maranges in Resumen

"We have never sat back waiting for change in a policy that for over sixty-two years has shifted only to tighten the siege."       Socialism Against the Siege Miguel Díaz-Canel in Monthly Review (Jan 22)
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"If we are Cubans, we also share common attributes. One of them is joy." They call us Cuba Madeleine Sautié in Granma, translated by Walter Lippmann

Havana, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) More than 1,697,000 general education students and around 280,000 university students are returning to classes on Monday to resume the 2021-2022 school year in Cuba.
August 18, 2001    ​ ~Flashbacks~

Ricardo Cambridge: excerpt "From the Belly of the Beast" 1998

Remembering Fidel    
​by Tom Whitney
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photo: Prensa Latina

Thank you, Cuba!   Gracias, Fidel!

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​Cuba's
​Latin American School of Medicine

I SAW FIDEL IN MATANZAS
By Yoerky Sanchez (Director, Juventud Rebelde), translated by Walter Lippmann
 

Crisis in Cuba Requires End of US Blockade Now      BY TOM WHITNEY, Counterpunch

IFCO/Pastors for Peace offer a number of ways to help Cuba recover from the #Matanzas disaster ☞

Let Cuba Live Committee website UNDER CONSTRUCTION. PLEASE STAY TUNED.

NEWS

Former Cuban Intelligence Chief sees Cuban Revolution in Danger, Calls for Action,

Tom Whitney, MLToday

Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign,

Manolo de los Santos, Vijay Prashad, MROnline

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Mainers came out on July 25 to demand an end to the blockade

Report from Maine: End the US Blockade Now, Tom Whitney 

What they don't say about Cuba, Rosa Miriam Elizalde, Resumen

CUBA RESISTS !
Frei Betto, Resumen

UN General Assembly once more denounces US Blockade of Cuba

​Tom Whitney
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Another Vile Lie from the United States 

Angel Guerra Cabrera

The US Gets Isolated by Its Blockade Policy: What Will Happen Now?

Alejandra Garcia, Resumen

U.S. blockade on Cuba causes record losses during coronavirus pandemic

Steve Sweeney, MROnline

Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccines: A journey of collaboration and revolutionary solidarity

MROnline

#CubaNoEstaSola

#CubaPorLaVida

#FidelPorSiempre

RESOURCES

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to Cuba Solidarity Groups​
IFCO/Pastors for Peace
US-CubaNormalization.org
"HAVANA Perspectives" conversations presented by Massachusetts Peace Action,
Summaries of Weeks 1-5:
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    http://bitly.ws/cZVi  

​https://www.facebook.com/UJCuba/videos/952871095533473

Afectaciones del bloqueo a la Ciencia en #Cuba
Dagmar García Rivera, Director of Investigations  at Instituto Finlay de Vacunas explains that "It has been a challenge to do what we have done this past year, in the  middle of the conditions that the #Bloqueo has imposed on Science in the country."

NNOC 50 States Campaign

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Hands Off Cuba

Standing Tall Against the Double Pandemic of Covid and the Blockade

​Interview with Ambassador Josefina Vidal, Peoples Voice

Cuba: The courage of a people

​Carlos Aznarez, Resumen

CAPITALISM AT WORK: CUBA CAN’T BUY MUCH-NEEDED SYRINGES
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Tom Whitney, MLToday

#CubaSalvaVidas

Cuba working on a "People's Vaccine" Beth Geglia, Counterpunch
Scientific innovations coming out of Cuba, PBS

Cuba

Projected development of renewables in Cuba, Amaury Pérez Sánchez, Power Mag
Cuba's Covid-19 vaccines serve the people, not profits, Tom Whitney, Counterpunch

US-CubaNormalization

Lift the embargo, fight the pandemic, US-Cuba Normalization Committee
Support the Cuba Trade Act of 2021, by Richard Grassl
Let Cuba Live delivers citizens' appeal to Maine Senators

#CubaSalvaVidas

Cuba achieves low infant mortality rate in the year of Covid

Connect to the Saving Lives Campaign resources

Cuba

In parting blow, Trump admin hits again at Cuba, by Tom Whitney

Trump decision to wind back Cuban rapprochement draws fire, Medea Benjamin

Confronting and ending the US blockade against Cuba,
​by Tom Whitney

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US-CubaNormalization.org

US-CubaNormalization

We are Cuba Viva, the country that resists and triumphs,
​ M Diaz-Canel

Cuba, 62 years of Socialist Revolution
ResumenLatinoAmericano 

Cuban Jazz Plaza International Festival kicks off

Cuba in these days of Covid
photo essay

Cuba & Latin America

Cuba and Venezuela to create bank of vaccines against Covid for ALBA-TCP
Let Cuba Live Committee of Maine
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.
Steve Burke MaineSteve Burke, 1942 - 2019, photo: Regis Tremblay
Steve Burke Presenté
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Stan Lofchie Presenté
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Stan, left, with Bob Dale, right
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Loukie Lofchie presenté !
​LET CUBA LIVE ARCHIVES HERE
 IFCO Pastors

Let Cuba Live &
Pastors for Peace
working together
for 27 years

Voices Against the Blockade

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African Union demands end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba, Jan 31, 2018
Cuban Embassy in US
According to polls, two thirds of US citizens are against the blockade of Cuba. photo: CUBA News Agencey
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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
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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
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“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
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​
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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)