#endsanctionsagainstcuba — Public Fediverse posts

Video - Salazar Backed Mass Deportations—Until It’s Re-election Time
https://peertube.world/w/ow9wbxxSyi35pnTNG9vxNz
Duration - 2:54 

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Rep. #MaríaElviraSalazar (R-FL), a #CubanAmerican hardliner from #Miami, made headlines recently when she broke with #Trump over the mass #deportations she long supported.

Belly of the Beast journalist María Karla Acosta Toledo breaks down how Salazar’s unwavering support of Trump and his Cuba policy have helped create the political mess she now finds herself in.

#DefendImmigrantRights
#AbolishICE #StopTheDeportations
#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#politics #USpol #USA

Video - ICE Took Her Baby. A Year Later, This Cuban Mother’s Still Fighting to Get Her Back
https://peertube.world/w/s5TfvWQfg2xixokQfCEoZR
Duration - 3:24

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Last year, #ICE detained Heidy Sánchez at an scheduled immigration appointment and deported her to Cuba within days, separating her from her husband and two-year-old daughter in Tampa.

BotB spoke with her in Havana after her deportation. She had an immigration lawyer, who helped her apply at the #US embassy for a visa to reunite with her family in the US.

More than a year has passed, and her requests to return to the US have gone unanswered.

In July, four Democratic members of Congress met with Heidy as she recounted the moment ICE took her daughter from her arms.

#DefendImmigrantRights
#AbolishICE
#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#politics #USpol #USA

#Energy and light from #Italy for #Cuba. The Italian project "Energy for Life, Let's Light Up Cuba," a campaign that raised funds for the installation of photovoltaic #SolarPanels in various institutions
https://lemmy.ml/post/53270121

[translation into English of an article in Granma]

#SolarEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability
#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics

Video - Cuba Fires Back at Trump at the UN
https://peertube.world/w/fYziqfJq9DBgmbBYTMJHgP
Duration - 4:14

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

At the #UN General Assembly today, Cuba’s Foreign Minister #BrunoRodríguezParrilla challenged Trump’s claim that Cuba is a “failed state.”

“If that were the case, why did they have to impose a fuel blockade?” he asked.

The #US diplomat present walked out during his speech.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol #USA #UNGA

Video - Blackouts Can’t Stop This Havana Movie Night
https://peertube.world/w/p9mjyUgs3iQemG7B1HDGHu
Duration - 2:37

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Mobile cinemas first brought films to rural Cuba in the 1960s, when the revolutionary government sent trucks mounted with projectors across the island.

Today, Cuban documentary filmmaker Gloria Rolando Casamayor honors that tradition in #Havana’s Colón neighborhood. Every weekend, she gathers her neighbors and sets up a portable projector for movie night, even when there is a blackout.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #film

Video - Global South Stands with Cuba at United Nations
https://peertube.world/w/qFd6rikMyRP1pZZUXzcLmH
Duration - 3:09

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

While Donald #Trump told the #UnitedNations General Assembly this week that Cuba is “failing like never before,” world leaders from across the #GlobalSouth stood with the island to denounce the #US #EconomicWar on Cuba.

Listen to what world leaders had to say about Cuba at the #UN.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol #UNGA

Video - Maxine Waters Confronts Bessent On Cuba: “Why Are You Being So Cruel?”
https://peertube.world/w/rtQMnSFwQprLLGfCiWmTnM
Duration - 1:11

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Rep. #MaxineWaters (D-CA) confronted Treasury Secretary #ScottBessent last week over his role in the #Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” Cuba strategy.

“You cut off all the #oil to Cuba," she said. “You’re starving the families, you’re starving the children.”

Since May, Bessent’s Treasury has sanctioned Cuba’s state-owned oil and gas company, fuel distributors and entities that import equipment needed to keep the island’s #nergy sector running.

“You don’t have to be cruel,” she told Bessent.

Watch her full remarks.

#USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#CubaNoEstáSola #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol #US #USA

#Video - Cuban Healthcare: The Human Cost of the US Blockade
https://peertube.world/w/dRV56Q4oRrTZTYUJnSGiQ4
Duration - 34:59

[A #podcast about #Cuba from #CubaAnalysisPodcasts]

What does #EconomicWarfare look like from inside a #hospital?

#CubaAnalysis speaks to doctors and patients at Havana’s Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital about the impact of the #US blockade on Cuba’s #healthcare system.

Since 2019, successive US administrations have pursued a policy of ‘maximum pressure’ against Cuba. In 2026, Washington intensified those measures, including restrictions on fuel imports and aggressive extraterritorial #Sanctions.

Cubans are dying, not because of a lack of doctors but because of the US #blockade. Since 2019, Cuba’s infant mortality rate has risen by 148%, while the survival rate for children with cancer has fallen from 85% to 65%. More than 100,000 Cubans are waiting for surgery, including over 12,000 children.

#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#news #politics #USpol #medical

Video - Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister: U.S. Policy is Collective Punishment
https://peertube.world/w/ee8a3ziBMLvgkV2XWQ4Jqz
Duration - 2:04

[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

In an interview with PBS, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister #CarlosFernándezDeCossío reiterated there has been “no progress” in talks between the #Trump administration and the Cuban government due to unrelenting #US hostility.

He said US policy is “collective punishment” meant to inflict economic pain on the #Cuban people.

#USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#politics #USpol #USA

Cuba Calculates the Human Cost of the US Economic War
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/cuba-calculates-the-human-cost-of-the-u-s-economic-war

Sept. 10, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Cuba’s government says the #US embargo caused more than $8 billion in damage in a single year.

Its latest report to the #UnitedNations describes surgeons working under the light of a cell phone, a mother worrying about her son’s cancer treatment being interrupted and children waiting for vaccines that are stuck in warehouses.

This week, we look at how the US government's #EconomicWar on Cuba affects everyday life on the island.

Also:

• A Senate Candidate Visits Cuba — and Speaks Out
• A Mother Builds the Workplace Her Son Couldn’t Find
• #MarcoRubio Sanctions Cuban Bank, #Oil and Mining Companies
• US Warns of Health Crisis Its Policies Created

#USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#news #politics #USpol #USA

‘Cuba Under Siege’
Activists at Socialism Conference Discuss Building Opposition to #US #Blockade
https://world-outlook.com/2026/09/17/cuba-under-siege/

Sept. 17, 2026

#HelenYaffe, professor at Glasgow Univ. and author of We Are Cuba! How A Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, also joined the meeting online. She described in detail the “tightrope” Cuba is walking with the economic reforms it is undertaking, emphasizing that they must be seen in the context of #Cuba as a small island that is dependent on trade. The Cubans also need capital for infrastructure and social welfare, she added.

Yaffe said the new measures “are referred to quite rightly as liberalizing reforms. They are an economic imperative, but they do constitute a political risk.” The challenge, she emphasized, is how to get foreign capital without undermining sovereignty, or the project of building #socialism. “Cubans are not for restoring capitalism!” she declared.

#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#news #politics #USpol

End The Blockade of Cuba - panel discussion at Left Coast Forum in #LosAngeles, #California, #USA
Saturday, October 3 @ 9am

Join us at the 4th annual Left Coast forum to discuss the meaning of the new political and economic transformations in #Cuba and the tasks of the #solidarity movement during these pivotal political times.

Panelists include local #labor leaders active in solidarity, who recently traveled to Cuba in a delegation and other prominent activists.

Saturday, October 3 @ 9am
Tickets at leftcoastforum.org (no one turned away for lack of funds). See you there!

Corrected website is: www.leftcoastforum.com
h/t: @redadical

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba #news #politics #USpol #US #USA
@cuba

#Trump’s Economic Vise Leaves Cubans Desperate for Food and Medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/americas/trump-sanctions-cuba-shipping-containers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVE.2zr_.SG3X16-Pb4-m&smid=url-share

Sept. 17, 2026
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable 30-day gift article]
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Thousands of containers filled with food, #medicine and other goods bound for #Cuba have been stranded throughout the #Caribbean since two shipping giants stopped deliveries to avoid tough #US #sanctions, according to diplomats, Cuban officials, merchants and others involved in the imports.

The containers stranded in various ports include humanitarian aid, from #SolarPanels to #medication to colostomy bags. Dozens of containers of aid purchased by different #UN agencies are among them.

US sanctions have also hobbled shipments by air, and forced the #WorldHealthOrganization to scrap planned deliveries of cancer drugs.

#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive #news #politics #USpol

Video - They Were Told Their Hair Wasn’t Presentable. Now They’re Proving Otherwise
https://peertube.world/w/t82VSXQ6v7U59SmjRPefPq
Released 9/16 | Duration - 3:55

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

The 4th edition of “Lo Llevamos Rizo,” only natural #Afro hair pageant, brought together Cuban stylists and their clients to celebrate #Black beauty, identity and roots.

For the entrepreneurs involved, it’s a chance to connect despite the challenges of running import-dependent businesses while the #US wages economic war on the island.

The event pushes back against decades of #beauty standards that treated natural #BlackHair as something to be fixed or hidden.

#BlackMastodon #BlackPride #HairStyling
#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean

Video - Rep. Carlos Giménez: U.S. is “Trying to Starve” Cuba
https://peertube.world/w/7bvwzdzREGkUHr9TegeCpE
Duration - 0:22

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

“Trying to starve them.”

That's how Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL) describes U.S. policy toward Cuba.

During an interview on CNN’s Inside Politics, Giménez said the U.S. wants to “put the squeeze” on Cuba and compares the approach to the U.S. strategy against Iran — where the U.S. has carried out thousands of airstrikes since February.

“Eventually what I think we need to do is leave all options on the table,” he said.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - This Socialist Senate Candidate from Ohio Went to Cuba. Here’s What He Saw
https://peertube.world/w/bUcQzr73pv6ovwzNeb34b3
Duration - 9:52

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

"The blockade is warfare.”

That’s how Greg Levi describes #US policy toward Cuba after traveling to the island and seeing its impact firsthand.

Levi, a #socialist candidate for the #USSenate in #Ohio, talked with BotB journalist Liz Oliva Fernández about what he saw in Cuban #hospitals and communities, why he believes US citizens don’t know much about Cuba, and why he refuses to stay silent despite the political risks.

He also opens up about his working-class roots, his experience in the US military, his criticism of US democracy and why he chose to run for Senate as an independent socialist.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#politics #USpol #USA

Video - Inside the Cuban Café Where People With Autism and Down Syndrome Work
https://peertube.world/w/696hHN82o8to8pzQcaG5DE
Duration - 4:40

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

When a mother couldn’t find a place willing to employ her son Liván, who has #DownSyndrome, she decided to create one.

Liva Café in Havana employs people with intellectual disabilities and #autism, with support from specialists in #psychology and #SpecialEducation. For workers like Livan, Karel and Richard, it’s a place to earn experience, build relationships and show what they can do.

Cuba has long had policies aimed at integrating people with #disabilities into the workspace. But as the people in Liva’s story explain, significant barriers remain — particularly when it comes to finding employers willing to give them an opportunity.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#CubaNoEstáSola #CubaSí

Video - Cuba Foreign Minister: U.S War Doesn’t Hurt the Government, it PUNISHES THE PEOPLE
https://peertube.world/w/8kPdfNvjkaMRfXLfABptif
Duration - 2:40 

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on Monday denounced the U.S. war on Cuba as collective punishment. He said the blockade punished the people, not the government, and cost the country $8 billion in the last year.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol

US Economic War Can’t Stop Cuba’s First Day of School
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/u-s-economic-war-can-t-stop-cuba-s-first-day-of-school

Sept. 3, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Nearly 1.4 million Cuban students returned to school Tuesday after a long, sweltering summer.

Parents rose before dawn, packed lunches and ironed school uniforms while navigating shortages and hours-long blackouts caused by the #Trump administration’s oil blockade.

This week, we take you inside Cuba’s first day of school-and the extraordinary effort families and teachers are making to keep children learning.

Also:

• Portraits of Life in a Country Under #Blockade
• #Bahamas Won't Renew Contracts of 31 Cuban Teachers
• Expedia Beats Another Title III Lawsuit
• Cuba Says There Are No Talks With #US

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#politics #USpol #USA

How Cubans are navigating the US oil blockade with rechargeable fans and solar-powered Chinese tricycles | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/05/americas/cuba-us-oil-blockade-electricity-creativity-intl-latam
9/5/26

How to conserve cellphone battery when recharging options are scarce; how to preserve food when the fridge isn’t working; how to cope with the heat when air-conditioners aren’t an option; how to generate power when the whole country has almost none left.

These are the sort of tutorials that have made the Instagram feed of influencer Dayán Marrero indispensable to many Cubans as they try to adapt to the rolling electricity blackouts and fuel shortages that are increasingly part of everyday life...

As the #US-imposed #oil #blockade that is worsening the situation bites ever deeper, Marrero and his compatriots are having to get creative. Farmers pasteurize milk over charcoal fires; commuters ride solar-powered Chinese tricycles; tour guides grind coffee by hand...

#OilForCuba! #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#news #politics #USpol #Cuba

Video - How Does Cuba Keep Its Schools Open Under an Oil Blockade?
https://peertube.world/w/vt96Xys3xa9gGf78Nh9vnu
Duration - 2:45

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Despite a U.S. #oil #blockade and #sanctions, 1.4 million Cuban students returned to school this week after a long, sweltering summer.

Families rose before dawn, prepared uniforms and packed school bags while navigating hours-long blackouts and shortages.

We take you inside Cuba’s first day of school — and the extraordinary effort families and teachers make to keep children learning.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - What Cubans Want to Say About Life in Cuba Today
https://peertube.world/w/vra3kseN9RJCERZqgH2Z5H
Duration - 5:16

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

What does this moment in Cuba mean to the people living through it?

For photographer Moník Molinet, the answer begins with a pause: asking people to stop, reflect, and write down the words that honestly describe their lives. In #Havana, amid an increasingly severe social and economic crisis fueled by suffocating #US sanctions, she invited people to put their own words to the moment they are living through.

These are their words. Their voices. Their moment.

Words for This Moment is a photographic project by Moník Molinet, created in Havana in July, 2026. The project is a series of 50 portraits, created in collaboration with Belly of the Beast.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#politics

CUBA UNDER SIEGE: A Roundtable Discussion
Sunday 6 September, at 12:00 pm Central Time (1:00 pm ET, 6:00 pm UK time)
Join Helen Yaffe and three other speakers (Reed Lindsey from Belly Of The Beast, Justine Medina, from Cuban Americans for Cuba and analyst and author Peter Kornbluh) for this panel, #Cuba Under Siege, at the Haymarket Socialist Conference in #Chicago, #Illinois, #USA.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hEGZs63wRAW284LNLt74dw#/registration

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol #US #BellyOfTheBeast #CubanAmericansForCuba
@cuba

Video - "Solidarity Is Not a Crime" [Cuba]
https://peertube.world/w/kn365P9Et6nKCQxiA3NKye
Duration - 27:00

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

The #US State Department’s latest report on Cuba revives allegations against US #solidarity activists that were made by the FBI and CIA in the 1960s and 1970s — claims historian Teishan Latner says were never proven.

In this interview with BotB journalist Yohan Rodríguez, Latner discusses the history of US-Cuba solidarity, the #VenceremosBrigade, the #BlackPantherParty and growing pressure on people in the US who oppose Washington’s policy toward Cuba.

He also examines whether the report is helping lay the groundwork for military action against Cuba.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol #USA

Video - U.S. Sabotages Cuba’s Hospitals — Then Calls Universal Healthcare a Failure
https://peertube.world/w/vNxwt6wKcW8FqzTVMApdh3
Duration - 1:47

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL) says Cuba’s healthcare system “sucks” and “doesn’t work,” pointing to hospitals without #medicine and deteriorating conditions.

But this criticism leaves out a major part of the story: the policies Giménez has championed are the reason why Cuba’s #hospitals are collapsing. #US #EconomicWarfare has restricted Cuba’s ability to obtain medicines, #medical equipment, fuel and other resources needed to keep its #healthcare system running.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol #USA

Havana’s Solar-Powered Answer to the Garbage Crisis
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/havana-s-solar-powered-answer-to-the-garbage-crisis

August 20, 2026

[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Trash is piling up across #Havana because the city’s garbage trucks have run out of fuel.

But in one neighborhood, garbage collection now runs on #SolarPower.

As the #US #oil #blockade keeps fuel from reaching Cuba, one local business is finding a new way to keep the streets clean.

Also:

• #Hegseth Gaslights Cuba on Counternarcotics
• Saber-Rattling, Same Old Economic War
• Who's Threatening Whom?
• #DominicanRepublic Expels Cuban Diplomats
• Turkish Airlines to Resume Cuba Flights
• Anti-#Embargo Democrat Wins Florida Senate Primary

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba!#CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#PetróleoParaCuba
#politics #USpol #Sustainability#RenewableEnergy

#Rubio Promises Cuba a Better Future — in a Box
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/rubio-promises-cuba-a-better-future-in-a-box

August 13, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

The #Trump administration is touting a $100 million aid package for Cuba, most of which is being distributed by #CatholicChurch charities.

But the aid is a drop in the bucket compared to the damage caused by #US# sanctions and an #oil #blockade that has plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis.

In our latest video, Belly of the Beast journalist Yohan Rodríguez reports from Bejucal, a town on the outskirts of Havana, where residents welcomed the food kits but questioned the policies that made the aid necessary.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - Cuba Can’t Keep the Lights On. Rubio Says It’s a Superpower
https://peertube.world/w/fJgfR2tiGPiBjtpGBeAGo6
Duration - 1:30

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

In an interview with Lara Trump, U.S. Secretary of State #MarcoRubio called Cuba a “superpower” and a threat to the #UnitedStates. Lara Trump said Cuba is trying to wipe the U.S. from the face of the earth.

So how does an island struggling with blackouts, fuel shortages and a deep economic crisis pose an existential threat to the world’s most powerful country?

Journalist Yohan Rodríguez breaks down the farcical claims by #Trump and #Rubio, which are used to justify current #US policy.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - The Contradiction Of U.S. Aid To Cuba
https://peertube.world/w/dag96EYQD3cJ96UttAmBAf
Duration - 0:47 

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

The #US is sending humanitarian aid to vulnerable Cuban families while its policies continue to deepen the crisis affecting them. We went to Bejucal to see what happened when the aid arrived.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Revolt or Die: Holding Cuba Hostage by Blockade
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolt-or-die-holding-cuba-hostage-by-blockade/

August 19, 2026

In 1960, Undersecretary of State Lester Mallory wrote it with a clarity his successors have never matched: the objective of the #Blockade against #Cuba is to “deny money and supplies, decrease monetary and real wages, bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of the government.” No ambiguity. No euphemism. Hunger and desperation are the means. Overthrow is the end.

International law calls genocide the deliberate destruction of a national group. The 1948 Convention explicitly includes “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” Mallory described exactly that in 1960 not as a side effect...

#USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#CubaNoEstáSola #AbajoElBloqueo
#PetróleoParaCuba
#news #politics #USpol