With Cuba Under Pressure, the Castro Dynasty Is Making a Comeback
As #Trump officials demand changes, #Castro family members are suddenly popping up across #Cuba’s political scene. Some even ask: Could one be the “Cuban Delcy?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/world/americas/castro-family-cuba-energy-crisis-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.x3Qy.FJSCpnX-h63K&smid=url-share

[take this with many grains of salt]

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable 30-day gift article]
March 28, 2026

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
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#news #politics #USpol

US to Allow Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Breaking Blockade
The tanker full of crude oil could reach its expected destination by Tuesday, providing a lifeline to the island amid intense US pressure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/americas/cuba-russian-oil-tanlker.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.BYuT.GnK5wIVM193u&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes
[gift article]

It would also reduce pressure on a #Cuban government facing a looming economic collapse and escalating threats from Washington, and show that, at least for now, the island can still depend on its longtime ally, #Russia.

The #Trump administration had been enforcing what amounted to an #OilBlockade around #Cuba since January, threatening nations that had been sending fuel to the country and, in one case, escorting a tanker heading toward Cuba away from the island.

The Coast Guard has two cutters in the region that could have attempted to intercept the Russian tanker. Yet the Trump administration did not order those vessels to act, according to a #US official...

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockade
#news #politics #USpol

‘Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for United Response’
US-Cuba Normalization Conference Maps Out Action Plan
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/21/cuba-under-siege-strategies-for-united-response/

from #WorldOutlook
March 21, 2026

NEW YORK CITY — About 225 delegates representing organizations across the US and Canada attended the conference “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” In welcoming delegates to the meeting, Ike Nahem of the NY-NJ Cuba Sí Coalition, said: “The conference is taking place at an ominous time. A time of imperialist war in the Mideast and intervention in our hemisphere, marked by the January 3 US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the country’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores, and the siege of #Cuba under the #US blockade of #petroleum to the country.” Nahem called on delegates to focus on actions that represent a united response to this qualitative turn of events in the world situation.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#news #politics #USpol

‘Cuban People Act with Creative Resistance’ (II)
Cuban President Lays Out Plans for Countering U.S. Blockade
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/25/cuban-people-act-with-creative-resistance-ii/

from #WorldOutlook
March 25, 2026

This is the second of two parts with major excerpts from the transcript of a press conference #Cuban president #MiguelDíazCanelBermúdez gave on March 13, 2026.

The excerpts are selected from the original Spanish-language transcript as it appeared in the Cuban daily Granma; photos are also from Granma. The translation, breakers, and notes are by World-Outlook.

The full introduction to it can be found in Part I - expressional.social@Peter_Link/116297642519581820

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
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#news #politics #USpol #Cuba

Video - From Miami to Havana: Why This Cuban American Is Speaking Out
https://peertube.world/w/j3V8K63g6adySjvVGwLEmu

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

Cuban-American politicians have long been a driving force behind the US government’s #EconomicWar on the island. But many people of Cuban origin living in the US reject the hard-line policies that have ravaged the island’s economy and caused widespread scarcities and hardship.

Danny Valdes, a Cuban American born in #Miami, recently visited Cuba with the #NuestraAméricaConvoy to help bring #HumanitarianAid to the island.

“There is a very well organized and powerful right wing Cuban lobby, that even is in the halls of the Congress that gets to determine what #US policy is toward Cuba,” said Valdés. “But we feel like it's a very important time now to say, not in our name.”

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

Video - Cuban Americans on U.S. Policy: Not in Our Name
https://peertube.world/w/g8J93gGiFvcU5P8fD9sxfg

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

“Not in our name,” says Danny Valdes, a Cuban American organizer who recently visited the island to bring humanitarian aid and rejects the hard-liner policies imposed by politicians like Marco Rubio.

#NuestraAméricaConvoy
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Missing sailboats carrying aid land in Cuba after being located by #Mexican navy
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-mexico-aid-boats-56f72fa44529c621b77b96fc2b74c613

from #AssociatedPress #AP
Updated 7:19 PM EDT, March 28, 2026

HAVANA (AP) — Two sailboats that went missing carrying humanitarian aid from southern #Mexico to #Cuba landed in Havana on Saturday afternoon hours after Mexico’s navy said it had located the boats days after they went incommunicado because of bad weather.

The vessels carrying at least eight people departed from Isla Mujeres in southern Mexico on March 20 and then lost contact, fueling concern in Mexico, Cuba and beyond.

In a post on X, the navy said an aircraft spotted the boats 80 nautical miles northwest of Havana. Upon arriving to the island, the coordinator of the sailing convoy said bad weather was responsible for the delay because the boats had to take a longer route and the sailors were “never in any serious danger.”

#NuestraAméricaConvoy
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#news #politics

Video - Puerto Rican Solidarity Groups Defy U.S. Blockade on Cuba
https://peertube.world/w/aEtv7EGSo3VkN1EyhpWNif

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

In the face of #Trump's #oil #blockade on Cuba, a group of #solidarity activists from Puerto Rico arrived in #Havana last Saturday to deliver medicine and medical equipment to the Salvador Allende Hospital, known as "La Covadonga," in the Cerro municipality.

Part of the #NuestraAméricaConvoy, the #PuertoRican solidarity groups included the Committee for Solidarity with Cuba and the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade.

The convoy's arrival was "a ray of light in the middle of the darkness," said Dr. Mylene Vázquez, director of the #hospital.

"Cuba and #PuertoRico are two wings of the same bird," said Sebastián Castro, from Committee for Solidarity with Cuba.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#PetróleoParaCuba
#AbajoElBloqueo
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean #politics #USpol

Video - Why Activists from 11 Countries Sailed to Cuba
https://peertube.world/w/7TJsjq2QNGpMxpan7J9tsv

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

After five days at sea, the #NuestraAméricaConvoy flotilla sailed into Havana harbor carrying 14 tons of humanitarian aid, including 73 #SolarPanels, #medicine, food, and hygiene supplies. The aid was delivered by 32 people from more than 11 countries.

They came from the #US, Brazil, Italy, Europe, and beyond. Some have been bringing aid to Cuba for years, stuffed into suitcases on #solidarity brigades.

"My government is the one imposing these cruel #sanctions and economic warfare on the Cuban people," said an activist from the US. "And this has been happening for over 60 years."

“The world owes Cuba,” said a Brazilian activist. “Cuban #doctors were among the first to fight Ebola in Africa. They went to Italy during COVID. That's why Italians are on this boat.”

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#politics #USpol #Caribbean

Mexican President Sheinbaum says she will uphold Cuban doctor agreement as other countries dip out
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cuba-doctors-trump-33b9459c0dabdc6d8ef50cf782096e98

from #AssociatedPress #APNews
March 25, 2026

#Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday said Mexico will continue to have Cuban doctors work in the country at a time when other nations across the Americas have ditched their agreements with #Cuba’s government in the face of mounting #US pressure.

“It’s a bilateral agreement that helps #Mexico a lot,” said Sheinbaum in her morning press briefing when asked if she would uphold the agreement or give in to pressures by the #Trump administration.

The leader’s support of the Cuban #medical program comes as US President Donald Trump has suffocated Cuba by effectively cutting the island off from #oil imports and has sought to isolate the #Caribbean nation in an effort to push for regime change.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#LatinAmerica #news #politics #USpol