cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48579494

Brett Wilkins
Jun 10, 2026

As of Wednesday, more than 8,000 Italian medical and scientific professionals have signed an open letter acknowledging their indebtedness to Cuban doctors and condemning the tightening of the 65-year US embargo on Cuba by President Donald Trump as he threatens “take” the island.

“Over the decades, Cuba has built a health system that was considered an international model, capable of guaranteeing universal access to care even in limited resource conditions. Since 1963, more than 600,000 Cuban health workers have served in more than 160 countries, including Italy,” states the letter addressed to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Health Minister Orazio Schillaci.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48568140

Duration - 0:55

In recent days, the Cuban United Nations Association (ACNU) warned of the humanitarian consequences of a possible U.S. military attack.

ACNU President Norma Goicochea said that “the U.S. government knows…Cuba is not an extraordinary threat” to the United States or any other country.

She also warned that a military intervention would have devastating consequences for civilians, including children, women and the elderly.

“Cubans have the right to be happy. We have the right to live in peace. Ultimately, we have the right to live.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48568489

Duration - 2:56

When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Cuban scientist Teresita Rodríguez was distraught. Her mother was her role model, her hero…so she set out to find a way to help her. At the time, her colleagues at Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology were working on a new drug, and Teresita joined them in their research.

She soon realized the medication could actually help her mother, so she started giving it to her. Teresita eventually became the leader of that team, and the results she witnessed with her mother became the inspiration for a medication that could be a game changer for Alzheimer’s treatment worldwide.

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48528263

July 7, 2026

https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/54040

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48526520

Duration - 0:23

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

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee he hasn’t found a Cuban official who could lead a “transition” to a government pliant to U.S. interests similar to the role played by Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela.

Rep. María Elvira Salazar asked if the U.S. had found a “Delcy Number Two” for Cuba.

“If you’re asking me, is there a singular individual right now that we would trust and rely on to lead this transition from start to finish? I can’t give you that name right now,” Rubio said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48484624

Duration - 6:01 

For decades, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba has trained tens of thousands of students from more than 100 countries, including hundreds from the United States and across the Global South.

Rooted in the idea that healthcare is a human right, Cuba’s medical education system seeks to train doctors who are both scientifically skilled and socially committed. Many ELAM students do not wait until graduation to put those values into practice.

In this video, we hear from two doctors from the United States who studied at ELAM and last year led a brigade of mostly African medical students to Guinea-Bissau to provide health education and medical consultations.

Their journey offers a glimpse into ELAM’s broader mission: preparing healthcare professionals to serve communities often left behind and to see medicine as a tool for social justice.

Editor: Jihan Hafiz

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48425120

June 7, 2026

DS: You made a point in a Facebook post on March 27 that “our generation may have the responsibility to defend the revolution with arms in hand.” What is the possibility of that?

EL: Well, the risk today is very strong. On a personal level, I have the perception that they cannot venture into armed aggression against Cuba while they focus on the Middle East, while their war on Iran is burning.

Therefore, the country is preparing. We are preparing for an armed aggression, and they will never forget our response.

Everything points to the fact that my generation is going to have to defend the revolution with arms in hand. They will never forget the blow we are going to give them. I have no doubt it is going to be another Vietnam, a re-edition of Vietnam; it’s going to take them years before they are able to get involved in another aggression again.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48399463

June 6, 2026
[has a lot of info on Cuba's energy transition to renewables]

As a result, an intensive care doctor may have no way to get to the hospital. Can you imagine the intensive care clinic of a pediatric hospital without a doctor?

Because doctors have no way to travel to treat people.

The effect is brutal and can only be resisted by a country like ours, which is an organized country, with clear goals, a country where solidarity is institutionalized. The distribution of resources, of the few resources we have, is organized, and solidarity is used to solve problems.

For example, there are private drivers of electric motorcycles who transport doctors for free, on their own initiative. Bus solutions are also being sought to transport doctors who are irreplaceable, who have to be there.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48392218

June 5, 2026
[weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Major media outlets have largely told the story of Cuba's medical missions through the voices of U.S. officials, politicians and U.S. government-funded "experts" who portray Cuban doctors as victims of "forced labor." Rarely do audiences get to see the missions themselves — or hear directly from the doctors still serving in them.

In our latest documentary, From Cuba to Calabria, we follow Cuban doctors as they travel from the island to work in public hospitals in one of Italy’s poorest regions. The film offers a rare inside look at a Cuban medical mission, letting the doctors speak for themselves about why they volunteer to leave their families and travel thousands of miles to care for patients in another country.

• Six Lies About the “Cuban Threat”
• Reporting on Cuba, From Cuba
• Cuba Defends GAESA as New Sanctions Take Effect
• Tourism and Finance in Washington’s Crosshairs
• Rubio: “Why Would I Need New Evidence?”
• Despite U.S. Hostility, Cuba Keeps Channels Open
• UN Experts Condemn U.S. Measures Against Cuba

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48399991

de PanoramaMundial junio 6, 2026

[contiene mucha información sobre la transición de #Cuba a las energías renovables.]

Y te puede pasar que un médico intensivista no tenga cómo llegar a la guardia. En un hospital pediátrico, imagínate que la consulta de terapia intensiva no tenga médico.

Porque los médicos no puedan llegar por un problema de terapia.

El efecto es brutal y lo puede resistir solo un país como el nuestro, que es un país organizado, claro, y un país donde la solidaridad está institucionalizada y se generan fórmulas en la que se aplica la organización de los recursos, de los poquitos recursos y a su vez se organiza la solidaridad en torno a la solución del problema.

Por ejemplo, hay choferes privados de motos eléctricas que a los médicos los transportan gratis, una iniciativa de ellos, pasa eso.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48342178

Duration - 1:23

In recent days, Cuban civil society organizations have denounced the devastating impact of the U.S. government’s economic war on the Cuban people.

Dr. Dayana Couto Núñez, president of the Cuban Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics, says shortages of medicines, medical supplies, technology and fuel are affecting surgeries, ultrasounds, diagnostic tests and maternal care.

According to Couto, the situation is making it harder to detect congenital malformations early and to care for premature and low-birth-weight babies, who often require specialized medication and high-tech neonatal equipment.

“Neither our women nor our children are to blame,” she said. “They need medical care, medicines and quality resources.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48311164

Duration - 9:17 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Donald Trump has justified economic warfare against Cuba, including the oil blockade, in the claim that the island somehow represents a national emergency for the United States.

From drones to Chinese and Russian spy bases to Hamas and Hezbollah, Trump and Marco Rubio have thrown the kitchen sink at Cuba to portray it as a national security threat.

Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández debunks six of the reasons the Trump administration has given to claim that a small island of 10 million people is threatening the most powerful country in the world.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48334536

Duration - 19:29

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

Dr. Gloria Caballero Roque grew up in a single room in Old Havana with four siblings, no running water, and a mother who sold things on the street to feed them. Free education, universal healthcare and also a strong mother who pushed through, she says, are the reasons she made it to university. She went on to earn two PhDs, teach for 35 years and run for political office in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

In this interview she speaks about her childhood, her transition to life in the United States and U.S.–Cuba relations.

She says Cuban-American politicians like Marco Rubio pushing for harder sanctions do not speak on her behalf. Their hostility toward Cuba, she argues, comes from people who can't accept losing control of the island. "They have become monsters against their own people," she says.

Discussing what's happening inside Cuba without discussing the blockade, she says, is treating the symptom while ignoring the disease. "Close the door of this house for 60 years and let's see how you survive."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48306095

Duration - 3:41

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

The Justice Department has indicted Raúl Castro for something that occurred three decades ago — and the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says he’s not sure why.

The reason the Trump administration is targeting Castro 30 years after the shooting down of the Brothers to the Rescue planes has little to do with the pursuit of justice and everything to do with the pursuit of regime change in Cuba.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48290270

June 4, 2026

In 2011, Cuba developed CIMAvax, which remains the world’s only approved lung cancer vaccine. This vaccine works to induce the immune system to stop the growth of cancer cells and slow the progression of tumors. This vaccine has already treated more than 5,000 people across the world and many more thousands in Cuba itself. Given the immense significance of the vaccine, the United States agreed to a special arrangement to trial the vaccine in the US. The Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York has been running clinical trials with CIM since 2018. They have run the first clinical trials of CIMAvax in the United States. The very same nation that is imposing a genocidal blockade on Cuba is also benefiting from the historic breakthroughs in healthcare.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48286008

June 4, 2026

Writer and activist Angela Davis, herself affiliated with the Black Panther Party in the 1970s, was among the opening speakers and the first — although not the last — to point out that the defense of Cuba was a part of Shakur’s legacy. Cuba was mentioned in numerous speeches throughout the 3-½ hour program.

cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/116688714931166406

“No War on Cuba” (#NoALaGuerraContraCuba) en Los Ángeles, 6 de junio: convocan protesta de emergencia contra las amenazas militares de EE. UU. a la Isla
https://www.cubainformacion.tv/solidaridad/20260603/123188/123188-no-war-on-cuba-en-los-angeles-6-de-junio-convocan-protesta-de-emergencia-contra-las-amenazas-militares-de-ee-uu-a-la-isla

de cubainformacion
03/06/2026

El comité U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee, junto a numerosas organizaciones sociales, sindicales, comunitarias y de solidaridad internacional, ha convocado una protesta de emergencia contra las agresiones y amenazas de #EstadosUnidos hacia Cuba, que tendrá lugar el próximo sábado 6 de junio de 2026, a las 11:00 horas, frente al Edificio Federal Wilshire, en la ciudad de #LosÁngeles (#California).

La movilización se realiza bajo el lema “No War on #Cuba” (No a la guerra contra Cuba) y denuncia la escalada de medidas de presión contra la Isla, incluyendo el recrudecimiento del bloqueo económico y las amenazas de intervención impulsadas desde Washington.

#NoWarOnCuba
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#noticias #política #EEUU
@cuba

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48264079

Duration - 2:56  

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

Harassment and intimidation from the U.S. government doesn’t scare Medea Benjamin — U.S. policy toward Cuba does. “I pray every day the U.S. is not going to invade,” she says.

cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/116672634085694765

Reportback by #labor delegates from #Atlanta, #Georgia, #USA about their recent solidarity visit to #Cuba

#NoWarOnCuba
#USHandsOffCuba
#news #politics #USpol
@cuba

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48191871

Duration - 2:46

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

May 20 is celebrated in Miami as Cuba’s “Independence Day.” In Cuba, people don’t care about the date because it wasn’t really about Cuban independence. It was about U.S. control over Cuba.

On May 20, 1902, a four-year U.S. military occupation ended and Cuba officially became a republic. But Cuba was still controlled by the United States. For example, Cuba’s Constitution allowed the U.S. to invade militarily whenever it wanted. It’s no surprise then that the Trump administration chose May 20 to announce an indictment against Cuba’s former President Raúl Castro, which could be used as a pretext to try to take control of Cuba, just as it did more than a century ago.

Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández breaks it down.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48171382

Duration - 3:21

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

When they first arrived in Italy, some of their Italian colleagues and patients were distrustful of Cuban doctors, but they quickly realized what people all over the world know: Cuban doctors are top-notch.

Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s. They usually work in Global South countries facing severe staffing shortages and health inequities. But since 2022, they have also been in Calabria, Italy.

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

Listen to these Cuban doctors describe their experience in Italy.

“We haven’t left yet, but patients are already worried about what will happen when we do,” says Cuban surgeon Asbel Díaz. “We work from the heart. We work thinking of helping others, and we give our all every day for the Italian people.”

Don’t miss the New York premiere of From Cuba to Calabria: Medical Missions in Times of Crisis on June 4 at The People’s Forum (Paul Robeson Theater), 320 W. 37th Street, New York, NY 10018. See the full documentary before its online release and join the conversation about Cuba’s global medical missions.

RSVP now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-cuba-to-calabria-film-premiere-and-discussion-tickets-1989232897144?aff=oddtdtcreator

cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/116672437373837649

Emergency Webinar - #USHandsOffCuba
Saturday, June 6 at 7pm -#Jacksonville, #Florida, #USA

#Cuba
@cuba

cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/116671731442421175

#Video - #news on #GlobalSumudFlotilla for #Gaza and #US Economic War on #Cuba
https://youtu.be/Xq6V8p55V80

May 30, 2026
from #DoubleDownNews on #YouTube

#Palestine #politics #USpol #AltTxt4Me
@palestine

it seems that even the economist warns against it

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48086193

May 29, 2026 [weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Also:

• “Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.”
• Congressional Black Caucus: “Enough is Enough”
• China Delivers Aid in Boatloads; U.S. in “Wheelbarrows”
• Ex-Intelligence Officials Reject Cuba Threat Narrative
• Ex-NATO Analyst: "Absurd” to Claim Cuba Would Attack U.S.
• Cuba’s Top Diplomat Calls Out Rubio on Fox News
• This Week in Cuba Collapse Forecasting
• Cuban-American Hardliners Obsess about Cuba, Ignore Constituents
• Thousands March in Havana to Support Raúl Castro
• “You Can’t Run a Society Without Oil”
• Cuba Publishes Holy Week Amnesty List
• Join Us for Our June 4 NYC Premiere!