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Unilateral coercive measures
Iranian Foreign Minister spokesperson Esmail Baghaei Iran condemns the US blockade of Cuba

In the decades since Cuba’s revolution in 1959, successive US administrations have targeted Cuba through the blockade, assassination attempts, media campaigns, and more. These attacks have intensified under the Trump administration.

Seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker “Piracy”: Venezuela responds to the US seizure of its oil tanker

According to the White House, the ship was transporting sanctioned oil. Caracas denounces the act as an attack on its energy sovereignty and a sign of Washington’s true intentions in its recent military deployment in the Caribbean.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz Ten lies the US ambassador told the UN about the blockade on Cuba

Ahead of the UN vote on the US-imposed blockade on Cuba, the US once again spread lies about the nature and intent of its coercive policy on Cuba

Code Pink sanctions Las sanciones como guerra civilizatoria: El costo humano de la presión económica de los Estados Unidos

Las sanciones deben reconocerse como lo que son: una guerra económica. Y, como en todas las guerras, sus víctimas merecen justicia.

Code Pink sanctions Sanctions as civilizational warfare: The human cost of US economic pressure

Sanctions must be recognized for what they are: economic warfare. And like all wars, their victims deserve justice.

SADC reiterates call for “unconditional lifting” of “illegal” US sanctions on Zimbabwe

For over two decades, US-led sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe in retaliation to its land reforms have tolled the toiling farmers and workers of the southern African country.

BRICS countries call for a multipolar, equitable and democratic world order

In the Summit held in the Russian city of Kazan, BRICS members condemned the genocidal Israeli war on West Asia, the illegal sanctions regimes imposed on the people of the world by the US and its allies, and Western dominated multilateral institutions.

16th BRICS summit opens in Kazan, Russia

This is the first summit since the accession of five new members, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE earlier this year. It is expected that yet another set of countries may join the grouping this year.

Cuba, in the dark but not defeated

Cuban journalist Laura Prada writes from Havana about the national blackout in Cuba, product of the blockade imposed on the island by the United States.

Venezuela is prepared to defend itself against fraud allegations and right-wing attacks ahead of July elections, says foreign minister

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto speaks about how people’s power continues to triumph against US imperialist meddling in the country

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister confirmed dead in helicopter crash

The president and foreign minister both championed the creation a multipolar world order and pushed for concrete solidarity with countries facing repeated imperialist onslaught

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro US resumes previously suspended sanctions against Venezuela after candidate declared ineligible

The US had temporarily eased some of the unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela following agreements between the government and the opposition about the upcoming elections