This is exciting and we must act fast: We have a rare chance to hold — and win — two historic votes in the Congressional House of Representatives rolling back parts of U.S. sanctions on Cuba on food, medicines, and remittances. These are amendments to a spending bill that will Read more
The Cuban Ministry of Justice (MINJUS) this week issued a birth certificate that recognizes two mothers of a child, which is an unprecedented event in Cuban law. After almost a year of beginning the process to register their son in the Cuban Civil Registry, this Thursday Dachelys Valdés and Hope Bastian obtained Read more
Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sister of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died on Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times . Smith died at her Manhattan home and was 92 years old. Smith was the eighth of the nine children of Joseph and Rose Read more
On Tuesday, Cuba gave the last goodbye to Rosita Fornés , the great Cuban star who died on June 10 in Miami at the age of 97 and whose remains will rest on the island in compliance with the artist’s wishes. Since the morning hours, hundreds of Cubans paraded in front of Read more
Actress and singer Rosa Fornés died in the early hours of this Wednesday, June 10, the official Rosa Fornes Facebook profile reported minutes ago. “Our dear Rosita has left us, by law of life, after an illness against which she struggled for several years, surrounded by love and without suffering,” Read more
She’s alive and not letting her guard down. She once said she would last until the end of time, while thinking, quite rightly, that she was beyond time. Although not beyond Cuba, since she is all Cuban. Juana Bacallao, Juana the Cubana, legendary, surreal, original, celebrated her 95th birthday, May Read more
When I was a child and someone told me not to do something and I couldn’t understand why, eventually I would end up finding a way to do it. This is precisely what CODEPINK’s leader Medea Benjamin is doing. She is defying all these incomprehensible Trump’s adiministration restrictions, and she’s Read more
Dear friends, I want to personally invite you to travel with me to Cuba from December 14-21 (or December 14-18 if you can’t stay that long). We at CODEPINK set these dates to commemorate better times, when President Obama restored diplomatic relations on December 17, 2014, and to call for Read more
Anna Lidia Vega Serova award winning writer and artist from Havana, Cuba will be making two appearances at the University of Memphis. The first event, “Race and Gender in Cuba: A Conversation with Writer Anna Lidia Vega Serova” is sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. This event will Read more
If Cuba were a woman, she would be called Mariana, like the strong mother who forged warrior children. If Cuba were a woman, she would wear a long dress with white and blue stripes and a star on her chest. If Cuba were a woman, she would enchant, not with Read more
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