Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee
Emergency rallies have been organized in multiple cities around the country to protest the attempted coup in Venezuela, the recognition of that coup by the governments of the U.S., Canada, and others, and to defend President Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution. Click to see the list of announced demonstrations.
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“Cuba rejects this threat [to apply Title III of the Helms-Burton Act] in the most energetic, firm and categorical way. It regards it as a hostile act of extreme arrogance and irresponsibility, while condemning the disrespectful and slanderous language of the State Department’s public message.”
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Cuba celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the entry of Fidel and the Rebel Army into Havana with a Freedom Caravan featuring combatants who participated in that triumph. Gloria La Riva was there and interviewed some of the participants.
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The Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Committee is dedicating our “Giving Tuesday” appeal to express solidarity with visually-impaired people in Cuba, and to help overcome the devastating effects of the U.S. blockade. We are asking everyone to donate $25 for this worthy cause. Please help if you can.
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After six years of bringing health care to poor Brazilians, Cuba has been forced to discontinue its internationalist mission participating in the “More Doctors in Brazil” program thanks to the hostility of newly-elected Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Read the statement from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health.
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U.S. government officials and media have repeatedly used the word “attacks” to describe symptoms experienced by some of its employees at its Embassy in Havana. To date there is no evidence to support the use of that term. There is no clear evidence that anything even happened to those employees, much less how it happened or who was responsible. The entire affair has been used as a provocation to justify the rupture of U.S.-Cuba relations.
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More than 2,100 people packed and overflowed New York City’s historic Riverside Church on Sept. 26 to warmly greet Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in his first visit to the U.S. as President of the Republic of Cuba. In a surprise appearance, Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, joined Díaz-Canel at the podium.
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Poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and other social ills “are not the result of socialism, like the President of the United States said yesterday here. They are the consequence of capitalism, especially imperialism and neoliberalism; of the selfishness and exclusion that is inherent to that system, and of an economic, political, social and cultural paradigm that privileges wealth accumulation in the hands of a few at the cost of the exploitation and dire poverty of the large majorities.”
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The Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee, formerly the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, sends a message to the Five and to the Cuban people on this, the 20th anniversary of the arrest of the Five.
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El presidente del Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), Fernando González Llort, acusó al imperialismo estadounidense de intentar desestabilizar a otros países del mundo.
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