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  1. Cuba Street: A Model of Community Hygiene in Old Havana’s Heart
    world-outlook.com/2026/05/08/c

    from #WorldOutlook
    May 8, 2026

    The article below was published on October 10, 2025, ...by a website of #Havana’s city government. It describes a concerted effort by local residents, the city administration, and private businesses to end the problem of trash accumulation in that part of #Cuba’s capital city.

    Since then, this problem has become more acute and widespread in Havana as a consequence of the #US #oil #blockade, which, since January 3, has stopped virtually all #petroleum shipments from reaching Cuba. The resulting fuel shortage has... made it difficult to almost impossible for garbage trucks to operate and regularly collect trash.

    ... this article describes an example of the initiatives ordinary Cubans take to improve their daily lives in the middle of extreme adversities caused by Washington’s decades-old economic war.

    #OilForCuba!
    #EndTheEmbargo
    #news #politics #environment

  2. Video - Why Cuban Women Say the #Blockade Hits Them First
    peertube.world/w/1dFMD9p3AorrL

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

    Hundreds of Cuban #women gathered at Mariana Grajales Park in Havana to denounce the #Trump administration’s intensification of the #US government 60-year economic war on Cuba.

    For women, the impact is felt both in their professional and personal lives, as many bear the primary responsibility for running households and caring for children and the sick, tasks that have become increasingly difficult under the tightened #embargo. This is the case of Cecilia Valdés, a caregiver daughter who explains that her mother has been unable to access #medication due to restrictions caused by the #embargo.

    Tuesday’s gathering also paid tribute to the 96th anniversary of Vilma Espín, the late leader of the organization, who devoted much of her life’s work to the empowerment of women within the #CubanRevolution.

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #politics #USpol

  3. Video - Why Cuban Women Say the #Blockade Hits Them First
    peertube.world/w/1dFMD9p3AorrL

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

    Hundreds of Cuban #women gathered at Mariana Grajales Park in Havana to denounce the #Trump administration’s intensification of the #US government 60-year economic war on Cuba.

    For women, the impact is felt both in their professional and personal lives, as many bear the primary responsibility for running households and caring for children and the sick, tasks that have become increasingly difficult under the tightened #embargo. This is the case of Cecilia Valdés, a caregiver daughter who explains that her mother has been unable to access #medication due to restrictions caused by the #embargo.

    Tuesday’s gathering also paid tribute to the 96th anniversary of Vilma Espín, the late leader of the organization, who devoted much of her life’s work to the empowerment of women within the #CubanRevolution.

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #politics #USpol

  4. Video - Why Cuban Women Say the #Blockade Hits Them First
    peertube.world/w/1dFMD9p3AorrL

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

    Hundreds of Cuban #women gathered at Mariana Grajales Park in Havana to denounce the #Trump administration’s intensification of the #US government 60-year economic war on Cuba.

    For women, the impact is felt both in their professional and personal lives, as many bear the primary responsibility for running households and caring for children and the sick, tasks that have become increasingly difficult under the tightened #embargo. This is the case of Cecilia Valdés, a caregiver daughter who explains that her mother has been unable to access #medication due to restrictions caused by the #embargo.

    Tuesday’s gathering also paid tribute to the 96th anniversary of Vilma Espín, the late leader of the organization, who devoted much of her life’s work to the empowerment of women within the #CubanRevolution.

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #politics #USpol

  5. Video - Why Cuban Women Say the #Blockade Hits Them First
    peertube.world/w/1dFMD9p3AorrL

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

    Hundreds of Cuban #women gathered at Mariana Grajales Park in Havana to denounce the #Trump administration’s intensification of the #US government 60-year economic war on Cuba.

    For women, the impact is felt both in their professional and personal lives, as many bear the primary responsibility for running households and caring for children and the sick, tasks that have become increasingly difficult under the tightened #embargo. This is the case of Cecilia Valdés, a caregiver daughter who explains that her mother has been unable to access #medication due to restrictions caused by the #embargo.

    Tuesday’s gathering also paid tribute to the 96th anniversary of Vilma Espín, the late leader of the organization, who devoted much of her life’s work to the empowerment of women within the #CubanRevolution.

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #politics #USpol

  6. Video - Why Cuban Women Say the #Blockade Hits Them First
    peertube.world/w/1dFMD9p3AorrL

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

    Hundreds of Cuban #women gathered at Mariana Grajales Park in Havana to denounce the #Trump administration’s intensification of the #US government 60-year economic war on Cuba.

    For women, the impact is felt both in their professional and personal lives, as many bear the primary responsibility for running households and caring for children and the sick, tasks that have become increasingly difficult under the tightened #embargo. This is the case of Cecilia Valdés, a caregiver daughter who explains that her mother has been unable to access #medication due to restrictions caused by the #embargo.

    Tuesday’s gathering also paid tribute to the 96th anniversary of Vilma Espín, the late leader of the organization, who devoted much of her life’s work to the empowerment of women within the #CubanRevolution.

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #politics #USpol

  7. Video - The Human Cost of US Sanctions
    peertube.world/w/7Li2JGyMsh5FF
    Duration - 8:28

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

    BotB's Liz Oliva and Drop Site’s Ryan Grim recently visited the William Soler Pediatric #Hospital in #Havana where they spoke with the chief anesthesiologist, Alioth Fernández, and the parents of some of his patients.

    Cuba's public and free #healthcare system was long considered one of the best in the world. Its doctors are top-notch, dedicated and caring. This is a story about what happens when the most powerful country in the world uses economic warfare to deprive a smaller country from obtaining the #medicine it needs to save lives.

    The #Cuban government cannot access the international financial system, cannot import freely, cannot buy what its children need — not because of indifference, but because #US sanctions have destroyed the country’s economy and drained the #PublicHealth budget.

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #politics #USpol

  8. Cuba rejects US Embassy request to bring in fuel, calls it ‘shameless’
    An effective US #oil #blockade has worsened the island’s #energy crisis. The US Embassy in #Havana, too, is feeling the effects.

    from #WaPo
    March 20, 2026
    archive.ph/N81ly

    In a diplomatic note to the embassy, the ministry said the administration’s fuel blockade was aimed at “causing the greatest possible harm to the Cuban economy, the well-being of the people, and their standard of living.”

    “The Ministry interprets as shameless the claim by the diplomatic mission to access a good as a privilege that it denies to the Cuban people,” the ministry said, according to a State Dept. translation. The note was dated March 9...

    The #US and #Cuba have been adversaries for 65 years. Officials in Washington and Havana have held direct talks aimed at resolving differences, #DíazCanel said last week. The administration has not made its demands of Havana public.

    #OilForCuba
    #EndTheEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol

  9. Video - What 2025 Looked Like for Cuba, a Belly of the Beast Recap

    [A video about #Cuba, hosted on #PeerTube.wtf, from the #news / #video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

    peertube.wtf/w/u44KU6kAGhpk5V3

    2025 was a defining year for Cuba. A year of intensified #US pressure and extraordinary #solidarity, inside the island and beyond.

    This Belly of the Beast 2025 News Recap brings together the moments that shaped Cuba’s year, told through the voices of those who lived it.

    This year, we covered:

    •Marco Rubio and US officials escalate rhetoric and actions against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua

    •Cuban athletes denied US visas, missing tournaments and #Olympics qualifiers

    •Cuba’s U-20 #soccer team makes history

    #HurricaneMelissa devastates eastern Cuba, and Cubans rally together in response

    #PublicHealth in crisis amid dengue, chikungunya and #medical shortages

    •Mass demonstrations in solidarity with #Palestine and #Venezuela

    #EndTheEmbargo
    #LatinAmerica
    #politics #USpol

  10. Inside the #US deportation flights to Cuba

    Last Thursday, #Cuba received a deportation flight from the #UnitedStates, and our team was at the airport in #Havana to film its arrival and to talk to some of the 161 people deported.

    [from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the #BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]

    Other articles

    • The #MiamiHerald lays the groundwork for more sanctions
    • Pacemakers campaign saves lives in Cuba
    • Cuba’s president visits East Asian allies

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList #LatinAmerica #Caribbean
    #news #politics #USA #USpol
    @cuba

  11. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  12. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  13. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  14. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  15. Table Tennis Star Beats the World – But Not U.S. Sanctions

    from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
    July 10, 2025

    Other articles

    • #Guantanamo: From war on terror to war on migrants
    • Two Cubans deported to...South Sudan?
    • Rubio professes “support” for the Cuban people
    • #Florida enacts Cold War-style ban on Cuban science
    • Cuba goes online with tourist visa application
    • Importer is forced to pay Treasury $600k for shipping food to Cuba
    • U.S. punishes Honduran officials for working with #Cuban #doctors
    • Shattered dreams for Cubans who won U.S. visa lottery

    groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

    #CubanMedicalSolidarity
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #LatinAmerica #MarcoRubio #medical
    @cuba
    @cubainfo

  16. From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024

    [A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

    The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.

    From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.

    in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
    Traduction en #français : Romane Frachon

    cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6X

    #StopGazaGenocide
    #StopStarvingGaza
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    @[email protected]
    @cubainfo

    @[email protected]

  17. From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024

    [A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

    The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.

    From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.

    in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
    Traduction en #français : Romane Frachon

    cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6X

    #StopGazaGenocide
    #StopStarvingGaza
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    @[email protected]
    @cubainfo

    @[email protected]

  18. From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024

    [A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

    The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.

    From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.

    in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
    Traduction en #français : Romane Frachon

    cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6X

    #StopGazaGenocide
    #StopStarvingGaza
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    @[email protected]
    @cubainfo

    @[email protected]

  19. From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024

    [A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

    The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.

    From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.

    in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
    Traduction en #français : Romane Frachon

    cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6X

    #StopGazaGenocide
    #StopStarvingGaza
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    @[email protected]
    @cubainfo

    @[email protected]

  20. From Gaza to Cuba - 10/06/2024

    [A #video on #PeerTube about #Cuba from the video collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

    The #US continues to fund #Israel's genocide in #Gaza, while Cuba, branded a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S., is quietly training hundreds of #Palestinian doctors for free.

    From Gaza to Cuba tells the story of Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian medical student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s #LatinAmericanSchoolOfMedicine (#ELAM). While his family and friends face the daily onslaught of Israel’s bombing, Murid struggles to focus on his studies. He dreams of returning to Gaza as a doctor to help save lives.

    in #Arabic with #English subtitles, with #French as a CC option
    Traduction en #français : Romane Frachon

    cuddly.tube/w/eoCYxq3BGRMBwz6X

    #StopGazaGenocide
    #StopStarvingGaza
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    @[email protected]
    @cubainfo

    @[email protected]

  21. Cuba Sends #Doctors, the US Sends #Sanctions

    The #UnitedStates calls #Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the #GlobalSouth.

    from #Jacobin
    By #HelenYaffe
    March 8, 2025

    On February 25, #US secretary of state #MarcoRubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas #medical-assistance programs. A #USStateDepartment statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.”

    jacobin.com/2025/03/cuba-medic

    #CubanMedicalInternationalism
    #VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
    #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
    #news #press #politics #healthcare #embargo
    @cubainfo