Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs reflects on how the US-imposed blockade severely limits Cuba’s ability to advance and develop

The impacts of a tightened US blockade, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the return of Trump with a vindictive Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, have deepened the crisis in Cuba, making international solidarity with the island more important than ever.

Under the slogan “For Cuba, together we create”, the International Workers’ Day commemoration denounced the economic blockade against the island.

Despite decades of US sanctions, Cuba remains a leader in medical innovation and international health solidarity

The US Secretary of State promised sanctions to all those who collaborate with the program that has provided high quality healthcare to millions of impoverished people around the world.

The rally seeks to demonstrate the Cuban people’s historic rejection of the US presence at the Guantánamo Naval Base, as well as against Trump’s decision to transfer 30,000 deportees considered “dangerous.”

The project has caused indignation in Cuba, which claims sovereignty over the Guantánamo Base, occupied more than 100 years ago by the US military.

Outgoing President Joe Biden had removed Cuba from the list less than a week prior, a long-awaited move that he committed to in his final days in office

Cuban officials celebrated the decision but insisted that Cuba should have never been included on the list in the first place

Biden removes Cuba from the US’s list of State Sponsors of Terrorism in his final days as President

Equipment such as radiators and engines were sent to the Caribbean island to promote energy transition and help with the recovery of its power grid.

Hundreds of thousands of Cuban people participated in the mass demonstration against the six-decade US blockade of Cuba and the inclusion of Cuba on the US state sponsors of terrorism list.