Video - Rubio Says There’s No Oil Blockade on Cuba. Cubans Disagree
https://peertube.world/w/3TTCtPWBXk4Q5Nx3tRBpXw
Duration - 2:04 

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

#US Secretary of State #MarcoRubio posted a video on May 20 addressed directly to the #Cuban people, claiming the blackouts have nothing to do with the US #OilBlockade.

We took to the streets to #Havana to see what people thought of his speech. Most hadn’t seen it.

“It’s just that I despise Marco Rubio so much that it’s not even worth listening to anything he says,” said Lucía Miret, 76, a retired teacher.

Most of those who saw it, rejected Rubio’s claim.

“It’s no secret to anyone that the blockade exists,” said Daimara Pérez, a doctor. “If the blockade didn’t exist then they should let the ships in.”

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
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#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
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Raising funds for medical aid for Cuba!
Thanks to connections made in Mexico (and thanks to their affordable and accessible meds as well as consistent aid deliveries), we're now able to have urgently needed #MedicalAid sent directly to the National #Healthcare #Workers #Union of #Cuba. 100% of funds raised go towards #medical supplies (purchased at-cost) to be delivered via the frequent aid ships provided by #Mexico 🇲🇽🤝🇨🇺❤️‍🩹

https://chuffed.org/project/medical-aid-for-cuba

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#Video - Helen Yaffe on Cuba's so-called "drone threat" to the US
https://peertube.world/w/u7YhaNNUuJWKXZkRSXXXGm
Duration - 7:32

May 18, 2026

from Helen Yaffe on Facebook:
I was back on France 24 English today to talk about #US government aggression against #Cuba, including the latest attempts to create support for a military attack with the story about Cuban drones potentially attacking the United States.

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Raúl Castro’s Indictment and Washington’s Double Standard on Terrorism
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/raul-castro-s-indictment-and-washington-s-double-standard-on-terrorism

[weekly newsletter about #Cuba (with YouTube #video links) from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

May 20, 2026

The Justice Department is set to indict former Cuban President #RaúlCastro today over the 1996 shoot-down of two #BrothersToTheRescue planes — a case that has been a politically charged flashpoint in US-Cuba relations for nearly three decades.

So far, the coverage by corporate media outlets has left out critical context: repeated provocations and incursions, numerous warnings by Cuban authorities, years of violent attacks against Cuba originating from South Florida and the #US government’s refusal to restrain an extremist group openly seeking confrontation.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
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No War On Cuba - information about U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee

website of U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee:
https://www.ushandsoffcubacommittee.com/

link to PDF file with article about May 9th meeting in #LosAngeles, #California, #USA
https://drive.proton.me/urls/VJEDSE66Z4#XKjPlM0m85Ru

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Cuba: Declassified Records on the #BrothersToTheRescue Shootdown
On Eve of #RaulCastro Indictment, Archive Posts Declassified #FAA Documents on Events Leading to Shootdown of Cuban Exile Planes
FAA Emails Foresaw “Worst Case Scenario”
“One of these days the Cubans will shoot down one of these planes”
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2026-05-19/cuba-declassified-records-brothers-rescue-shootdown?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d794cf42-039a-4428-9001-59f971d1dfce

from #NationalSecurityArchive
May 19, 2026

FAA emails, memos, and communications recorded concerns among high-level Clinton administration officials that repeated penetrations of Cuban airspace would eventually lead to a crisis if #Cuba acted to protect its territorial integrity from provocative BTTR incursions. “A major fear is the possible downing of a BTTR aircraft by land-based gunfire,” a summary of an August 1995 meeting with White House officials stated.

The documents offer a detailed historical context in which the aerial violence against the civilian aircraft occurred.

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Yes, Trump Might Really Attack Cuba
The shift comes as officials struggle to convince the Cuban regime to make major economic and political changes.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/05/18/the-odds-of-trump-attacking-cuba-are-going-up-00926317

[horrible, but informative article]
from #Politico
05/18/2026

The Trump administration has been dancing around the question of whether it will carry out military strikes against #Cuba. I am told it is increasingly willing to take such a step.

That’s a significant escalation from a few months ago, when officials were primarily focused on using economic and diplomatic pressure to squeeze the communist regime in Havana.

A #US official and a person familiar with the administration’s discussions on Cuba told me that #Trump and his aides have grown frustrated that the US pressure campaign [...] has not led Cuba’s leaders to agree to significant economic and political reforms. So they’re taking the military option more seriously than previously.

#OilForCuba!
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Video - Teresita’s Dream: Cuba’s Battle Against Alzheimer’s
https://peertube.world/w/12Ys6gA19mfGA8Li574VY5

[a #video from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
Duration - 23:36

When her mother was diagnosed with #Alzheimer’s, Cuban scientist Teresita Rodríguez set out to find a way to help her. At the time, her colleagues at #Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology, were developing a medication for neurodegenerative diseases, so she joined them. Teresita's Dream follows the journey she took and how one daughter’s love might change the way we treat Alzheimer’s around the world.

Set in the heart of #Havana against the backdrop of Cuba’s world-class #biotech sector and the relentless challenges posed by intensifying #US #sanctions, this #documentary is a powerful story of scientific innovation, love, hope and resilience.

#OilForCuba!
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The Cuban Scientist Fighting to Save the World’s Memory
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/the-cuban-scientist-fighting-to-save-the-world-s-memory

[weekly newsletter about #Cuba (with YouTube #video links) from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective.]
May 15, 2026

For over seven million people in the US, #Alzheimer’s is a slow erasure of memory, identity and connection. As #pharmaceutical giants charge staggering prices for treatments that offer limited results with dangerous side effects, a potential breakthrough has emerged from Cuba, a country subjected to more than six decades of #US economic warfare.

Also:

• Talks in Havana, War Drums in Miami
• #Rubio's Cynical Aid Charade
• 40 Years After #JesseJackson's Havana Visit, His Son Returns
• Cuban Americans: "Rubio Doesn't Speak for Me"
• "Monsters Against Their Own People"
• Who's Spying on Whom?
• "No Military Solution": #UN Chief Slams US Sanctions
• As War on Cuba Escalates, Companies Settle Lawsuits
• Rising Gas Prices as #Russian Tanker Stalls

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Cuban Envoy Draws 'Red Lines' Amid Specter of US Invasion and DOJ Targeting #Castro Like Maduro
Cuban Chargé d’Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera said her government is willing to negotiate with the US, but “the only exception is our sovereignty, independence, and right to self-determination.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-threatens-cuba

from #CommonDreams
May 15, 2026

#Cuba’s top diplomat in the United States on Friday underscored the inviolability of her country’s sovereignty amid tenuous negotiations with the #Trump administration and mounting fears that the #US is planning to criminally indict a former Cuban president and possibly invade the island to abduct him..

“We have reorganized the whole country, the healthcare system, the education system, the transportation system, to keep the basic services running,” Torres Rivera told #TheHill. “But it doesn’t mean that they are running normally. They are running under huge stress.”

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