cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49499558

Duration - 2:44
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Electric tricycles have exploded across Cuba as the country faces extreme fuel shortages due to the U.S.-imposed oil blockade. But blackouts now last so long — 20 or more hours a day — there isn’t enough electricity to charge them.

So drivers are now installing solar panels on top of their tricycles.

“As long as the sun is out, it’s charging the battery,” says Evanys Peréz. “Now we can travel up to 90 miles.”

cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/116846041294566331

National Nurses United in #USA demands end to the US blockade of fuel entering Cuba

from #NationalNursesUnited (on FB)

#Nurses save lives! That's why we're in D.C. demanding the #US end the #blockade of fuel entering #Cuba. This is fuel that powers water pumps and #hospitals that 11 million people depend on. Surgeries postponed. Essential #medicines gone. Infant mortality doubled. Enough!

#NoWarOnCuba
#USHandsOffCuba
#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol
@cuba

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49372259

By Juan Triana Cordoví, Omar Everleny Pérez-Villanueva, Julio Carranza & Rafael Hernández
Published 28 June, 2026 in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49263165

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49243695

Duration - 44:46
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Why did the Cuban government shoot down two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996?

Former Cuban intelligence agent René González, a member of the Cuban Five, says the group’s true purpose was not rescuing rafters.

In this exclusive interview with Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández, González recounts how he infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue, what he witnessed from the inside, and why he believes the indictment of Raúl Castro is a made-in-Miami pretext to justify an invasion.

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0:00 Introduction

1:00 Who is René González? Beyond the Cuban Five

2:14 How Cuba Recruits Intelligence Agents

3:08 Stealing a Plane to Infiltrate the Enemy

6:03 The Point of No Return

9:42 Arriving in the United States

10:44 The Mission: Infiltrating Anti-Castro Pilot Groups

12:11 What Was Brothers to the Rescue Really Doing?

17:39 The Secret Plans: Sabotage, Weapons and Destabilization

21:00 Provoking a Confrontation Between Cuba and the U.S.

23:32 The Lead-Up to the 1996 Shootdown

24:49 The Day of the Shootdown

27:59 Was Cuba Justified?

29:43 Raúl Castro's Indictment: Justice or Political Move?

33:22 Comparing the Cuban Five Trial to Raúl's Indictment

36:23 Did He Ever Feel Guilty? Empathy With the Enemy

37:44 Dismantling Terror Plots Against the U.S.

38:42 The Obama Normalization: A Moment of Hope

40:06 Cuba Then vs. Cuba Now

42:08 The Future of Cuba Belongs to the Young

44:18 Any Regrets?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49214137

Duration - 2:43
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Infant mortality has doubled. Only 30% of essential medicines are available. UN Resident Coordinator Francisco Pichón says Cuba’s healthcare system is under extraordinary pressure due to the U.S. fuel blockade and sanctions, with 67,000 children at risk of missing vaccines.

Watch the full interview now on Patreon through the link in bio!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49213775

Duration - 4:17
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Why did one Cuban-American activist return to the island she left as a child?

In our latest episode of U.S. Voices Against the Blockade, Daylín Marrero reflects on leaving Cuba at eight years old, returning years later and why the U.S. blockade drove her family's decision to emigrate.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49103551

by Isaac Saney
June 18, 2026 [from FB]
https://drive.proton.me/urls/HZJRH0J1PG#vxIAJUJ1m8sR

In one of the most consequential economic policy announcements since the Special Period of the 1990s, Cuba has unveiled a comprehensive package of reforms designed to confront the island's most severe economic crisis in decades while preserving the socialist foundations of the Revolution. Approved by the Extraordinary Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, the program consists of twenty-three strategic axes and 176 concrete proposals aimed at overcoming immediate economic hardships, stimulating production, attracting investment, and strengthening social protection. In an era of unprecedented economic warfare and siege, under extraordinarily adverse conditions—conditions that would have crushed most nations in short order—these economic measures are designed to confront and overcome the island nation's economic crisis, while countering the ever-intensifying economic war waged against Cuba, which remains the principal cause of the country's current difficulties.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49085525

Duration - 2:44
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

For decades, Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) has trained doctors from around the world — including the U.S. — with a vision of healthcare as a human right. Samira Addrey and Abeeku Ricks are among hundreds of ELAM graduates from the United States.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49020723

Duration - 2:59
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

U.S. politicians call Cuba’s medical missions “forced labor,” without providing evidence to back the claim.

Cuban doctors volunteer to go on international missions, where they are paid many times more than what they make in Cuba. Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s, usually working with populations that otherwise wouldn’t have access to care.

Listen to Cuban doctors in Italy’s Southern region of Calabria respond to U.S. accusations.

Watch our full-length documentary film “From Cuba to Calabria: Medical Missions in Times of Crisis.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48978598

Duration - 2:51
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Raúl Castro was indicted for the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes 30 years ago. The group’s leader was a former CIA terrorist who claimed to have renounced violence, but never did according to former Cuban intelligence agent René González.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48950994

June 18, 2026

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48950790

Duration - 1:35 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Foreign companies are pulling out of Cuba.

After Trump signed an executive order on May 1 threatening sanctions on anyone doing business in Cuba, companies from Canada, Spain, France, Germany and Australia fled the island.

So who benefits when foreign investors leave?

Belly of the Beast journalist Yohan Rodríguez breaks it all down.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48875778

Duration - 1:32 

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Director Daniel Montero shares what drew him to the story of Dr. Teresita Rodríguez and why TERESITA’S DREAM became such a meaningful film to make.

The documentary follows the Cuban scientist whose search for an Alzheimer’s treatment began after watching her mother battle the disease. Set against the backdrop of Cuba’s biotech sector and the challenges created by decades of U.S. sanctions, TERESITA’S DREAM is a story of love, scientific innovation, and perseverance against the odds.

Watch the full documentary: TERESITA’S DREAM

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48832066

Duration - 1:51 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s.

During Covid, a Cuban medical brigade helped Italians in Lombardy, which triggered Calabria’s president Roberto Occhiuto to reach out to Cuba in 2022 to invite hundreds of doctors to his region. Calabria is one of the poorest regions in Italy and its healthcare has suffered greatly from staffing and other issues.

Listen to the Italian people explain what Cuba’s health internationalism means to them.

“Cuba will always be in my heart,” says an elderly Italian man whose life was saved by a Cuban doctor.

Watch our documentary film “From Cuba to Calabria: Medical Missions in Times of Crisis.”

you think it was over?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48757270

Duration - 58:38
[A video podcast about Cuba from the podcast team Cuba Analysis Podcasts]

In this episode of the Cuba Analysis Podcast, Helen Yaffe and Nina Blodau speak to radical journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin from The Empire Files about the intensifying US war on Cuba, the human cost of the decades-long blockade, political consciousness and how Cuba has resisted US imperialism. Abby tells us about her first experience of visiting Cuba and, more recently, of interviewing Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel for the new documentary Cuba After Castro, which undermines US propaganda aimed at manufacturing consent for an attack. Abby draws the connections between Cuba, Palestine, and Venezuela, and underscores the importance of solidarity for all those struggling against US imperialism, including domestically.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48739444

[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]
June 12, 2026

For more than 25 years, Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) has offered full scholarships to students from underserved communities around the world, including hundreds from the United States.

This week, we hear from two ELAM graduates from the U.S. who recently organized a medical solidarity brigade of mostly African students to Guinea-Bissau.

Also:

• Cuba’s “Astonishing” Medical Mission in Haiti
• UN Rights Commissioner: "Children Are Dying"
• Rubio Tightens the Oil Blockade
• Hegseth Pumps Up “Donroe Doctrine” at Guantanamo
• What Do Cubans Think About Trump?
• Sanctions Target Cuban Gold
• Cuba Announces Major Economic Reforms
• Shut Out by U.S., Cuba's Biotech Turns to Russia

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48695126

Duration - 22:20

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

U.S. politicians have been waging a war against Cuba’s medical missions for years. During the second Trump administration, with Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, this war has escalated. Since 2025, at least eight countries have announced they will no longer facilitate Cuba’s medical missions due to U.S. pressure.

The U.S. calls Cuba’s medical missions “forced labor,” without providing evidence to back the claim. The Cuban government calls the doctors heroes.

Cuban doctors volunteer to go on international missions, where they are paid many times more than what they make in Cuba. Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s, usually working with populations that would otherwise not have access to care.

A Belly of the Beast team traveled to Calabria, Italy, to talk to the Cuban doctors themselves.