They Delivered Medicine to Children in Cuba — Now They're Under Investigation
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/they-delivered-medicine-to-children-in-cuba-now-they-re-under-investigation

May 29, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Also:

• “#Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.”
• Congressional Black Caucus: “Enough is Enough”
• China Delivers Aid in Boatloads; #US in “Wheelbarrows”
• Ex-Intelligence Officials Reject Cuba Threat Narrative
• Ex-NATO Analyst: "Absurd” to Claim Cuba Would Attack US
• Cuba’s Top Diplomat Calls Out #MarcoRubio on Fox News
• This Week in Cuba Collapse Forecasting
• #CubanAmerican Hardliners Obsess about Cuba, Ignore Constituents
• Thousands March in #Havana to Support #RaúlCastro
• “You Can’t Run a Society Without #Oil”
• Cuba Publishes Holy Week Amnesty List
• Join Us for Our June 4 #NYC Premiere!

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Video - Medea Benjamin responds to #US investigation: “We will not be intimidated”
https://peertube.world/w/ayTiNSHL7tR6cHVrue74Wc
Duration - 2:50

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

Medea Benjamin traveled last march to Cuba with #medicine and food for children's #hospitals. The #USTreasuryDepartment wanted to know everything about it. “This request for information is really just a form of intimidation,” she said.

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Video - From Santiago de Cuba to US Politics: Interview with Cuban-American Academic Gloria Caballero
https://peertube.world/w/uWHTZ77eGLUavWvwWSJhaP
Duration - 2:05

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

Dr. Gloria Caballero, a #CubanAmerican academic and #US politician, speaks in this interview about the US #blockade, race, and why Rubio doesn't speak for her as a Cuban. "They don't speak on my behalf."

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Video - Statements of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba at the #UN Security Council
https://peertube.world/w/68V7f77vCxVxwLiLNxuxtz
Duration - 1:09

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

At the #UNSecurityCouncil, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs #BrunoRodriguez called on the international community to act to prevent the “human catastrophe” that could result from the ongoing energy #blockade and potential #US #military aggression.

Thousands of Cubans would die defending their homeland,” he said. “And young US citizens would also perish, without a cause or ideal worth fighting for, dragged into violence by an #imperialist, neofascist policy of domination, plunder and conquest.”

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Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.
https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/sanctions-kill

May 27, 2026
[very powerful, beautifully written account by a Cuban doctor, about much more than just the sanctions.]

By an Anonymous Cuban #Surgeon

This article was originally published by CounterPunch.

Last month, I operated on an elderly man with a perforated peptic ulcer. The surgery was textbook. I closed his abdomen cleanly, without complication. We had antibiotics available that time. What we did not have was intravenous crystalloid fluid for resuscitation. It’s the most basic of solutions, cheap enough to cost almost nothing, yet essential enough to save almost everything. It exists. It is manufactured in Santiago de Cuba, 500 miles away. It could not reach Havana since there was no petroleum to transport it. By the time it arrived, my patient had died.

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Video - Military expert: Drones and spy bases in Cuba are US-created pretexts
https://peertube.world/w/mo7Vk56qCJFLcMxjvyegpb
Duration - 1:27

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

The US government is manufacturing a pretext to attack Cuba, affirmed Hal Klepak, professor emeritus of #LatinAmerican and other strategic studies in military history at the Royal Military College of Canada.

“The issue of Cuba being a threat can only be seen as a pretext to prepare #US opinion, or at the very least, the MAGA base, for accepting an intervention”, said Klepak. “The idea that the Cubans would choose this moment to attack the US is an absurd assertion.”

According to Klepak, Cuba’s #military has a defensive posture and would not attack the US.

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Video - Cuban Doctors in Italy and Africa: A Documentary Screening With Belly of the Beast
https://peertube.world/w/j7Jay9jJJe27AhwspRSKy2
Duration - 5:49

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

BotB recently held a screening of two documentaries on Cuban #medical missions. One is focused on #Cuban #doctors deployed to #Calabria, #Italy, and another follows a brigade of #African students from #ELAM (Cuba's #LatinAmerican School of #Medicine), who traveled to #GuineaBissau to provide medical care based on the training they received on the island.

Some of the ELAM students attended the screening and were given a standing ovation.

One audience member said: "Thank you for being heroes, not just of Cuba, but of the entire world."

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Manufacturing a Pretext for War on Cuba
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/manufacturing-a-pretext-for-war-on-cuba

[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast.Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
May 22, 2026

#Trump justified his Jan 29 executive order imposing an oil blockade on Cuba by claiming its government poses “an unusual and extraordinary threat.” Since then, as the Trump administration has rolled out a new wave of punishing sanctions, it has also ramped up its rhetoric portraying Cuba as a national security threat to the #US.

Also:

• May 20: Glorifying Colonial History
• The Return of Gunboat Diplomacy
• Supreme Court Sides With Heirs of Nazi-Linked Tycoon
• Fuel For Everyone, Except Cuba
• Shipping Giants Retreat
• Don’t Miss Our Latest Documentary in NYC
• Former Trump Advisor Eyes Cuba’s Mineral Wealth
• Cubans on Rubio: “It’s Not Worth Listening to Him”

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Video - Interview with Zue Jernstedt, US veteran turned #AntiwarActivist
https://peertube.world/w/kGWj8NXRFgZ6zmLHKZ3WhT
Duration - 44:41

[A #video #podcast about #Cuba from the podcast team #CubaAnalysisPodcasts]

In this episode of Cuba Analysis podcast, Nina Blodau speaks with US army #veteran #ZueJernstedt, who served in Afghanistan before leaving the army and becoming an anti-imperialist activist. Zue has worked as a human rights observer in the #WestBank, participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to #Gaza, and organised with anti-#ICE groups in the US. In March 2026, she met the #CubaAnalysis team in Havana during the #NuestraAméricaConvoy of international #activists who came together to oppose #US threats of #military aggression against Cuba and to demand an end to the US #blockade recently compounded by a genocidal oil siege.

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