#Video - US Voices Against the Blockade Episode 2: Imani Bashir
https://peertube.world/w/oBRgayfhyQKmpGizL1YXZj

[from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Duration - 2:02

#ImaniBashir is a Black American activist from Washington D.C. She visited to #Cuba following a radical political tradition, one that includes Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, and Kwame Ture, figures who understood the #CubanRevolution as part of a broader struggle for liberation.

For Bashir, visiting Cuba wasn't just political, it was personal. Seeing #AfroCuban people, she says, was seeing people who look like her, who share her history, who have maintained their culture and dignity under decades of sanctions.

Her argument on the #blockade is straightforward: Cuba has never been a threat to the US. It has never put #US safety, its food supply, or resources at stake. "It has only been the other way around," she says.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - Why Cuban Women Say the #Blockade Hits Them First
https://peertube.world/w/1dFMD9p3AorrLBrtGvaTTa

[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

‘We are a very resilient people’: in the face of #Trump’s threats, Cuban cinema comes out fighting
With the island back in Washington’s sights, the Screen Cuba festival is taking #UK audiences beyond the #blockade
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/24/cuban-cinema-comes-out-fighting-trump-threats-screen-cuba-festival

from #TheGuardian
March 24, 2026

In the shadow of an imperial hegemon and with severe restrictions on its ability to trade and access resources, #Cuba may appear as an enigma to audiences curious about the type of #cinema that has emerged from such conditions.

The #CubanRevolution of 1959 caused a radical break in the development of the country’s cinema. #Film-making existed before “this moment of effervescence” but was historically an imitation of Hollywood-style film-making, according to Jessica Gordon-Burroughs, a lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Edinburgh. In contrast, the first decade after the revolution heralded “a very exciting and innovative time, both politically and aesthetically in Cuba”.

#news #politics

Фідель Кастро очолив уряд Куби
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/vowaneditu

#ФідельКастро #КубинськаРеволюція #ІсторіяКуби #1959Рік #ПолітичнаІсторія
#FidelCastro #CubanRevolution #CubanHistory #ColdWarHistory #1959з

Cuba Must Not Fall!
The survival of Cuba’s socialist project remains one of the most critical holdouts against hemispheric domination, making its defense a global litmus test for sovereignty.
https://resumen-english.org/2026/02/cuba-must-not-fall/

from #ResumenLatinoamericano
by Isaac Saney
Feb 7, 2026

The struggle to defend the #CubanRevolution—to preserve #Cuba’s independence, sovereignty, and right to self-determination—is not simply the struggle of a small #Caribbean nation resisting a powerful neighbour. Nor is it confined to the geographical contours of an island of eleven million people. It is, rather, a struggle with profound and incalculable consequences for #LatinAmerica, the Caribbean, and the global fight for justice, human dignity, and the right of peoples to live free from imperialist diktat.

...Cuba asserted the radical proposition that a small, formerly colonized country could chart its own path, control its own resources, and prioritize social justice over foreign capital.

#News #politics

Before Castro's successful #CubanRevolution, life for the masses was grim under dictator Batista, who welcomed US mafia, other gangsters to Havana to run casinos, hotels.

Castro brought em excellent healthcare, education, gender & racial equality, even a world class ballet company & more despite a crippling US-led #SugarEmbargo.

But sugar was #Cuba's main export & despite conducting studies into other ways to counter the hit to the economy - incl exploring for
https://www.ctpost.com/news/world/article/us-announces-6m-in-aid-for-cuba-as-island-s-21336380.php
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Capitalist exploitation of Cuba by the United States and Fulgencio Batista (US puppet leader of Cuba) before the Cuban Revolution.

#cubanrevolution
#fulgenciobatista
#antiimperialism
#anticolonialism
#cheguevara
#usempire