2026-04-28: Cuba Roundup

So far today: 2026-04-28 6:15pm GMT

Ed Newman (2026-04-28). Americans in Havana express solidarity and rejection of U.S. blockade. radiohc.cu American union members and activists visiting Cuba have expressed their rejection of their government's blockade against the Caribbean nation in the Cuban capital. | In exclusive statements to Prensa Latina, they explained that they are visiting Havana to participate in the International Union Internship and in the May Day activities, International Workers' Day, and above all, to learn more about the island and increase actions in support of Cuba. | Mark Friedman, founder and one of the coordinators of the Hands Off Cuba Committee in Los Angeles, with affiliated groups in other U.S. cities, confessed that he "has…

Ed Newman (2026-04-28). Cuba will not be alone on International Worker's Day. radiohc.cu Cuban plazas will be, this coming May 1st, platforms from which the people of this archipelago, with proletarian strength, will defend their right to be a free, independent, sovereign and peaceful land. | Accompanied by hundreds of friends from around the world who have come to the Island to share in the daily resistance of a country that overcomes all the difficulties imposed upon it to suffocate it, the working masses will take to the streets the same conviction they have shown with their signatures for the Homeland in recent days. Friends of solidarity have seen it, and have said so. | It is "the most solidari…

Ed Newman (2026-04-28). The U.S. blockade threatens Cuba's maritime security. radiohc.cu The Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations denounced the impact of the United States' economic, commercial, and financial blockade on maritime security at the Security Council during the open debate held on April 27th. | According to a statement released by the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations on its Facebook page, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Cuba to the UN, emphasized the strategic importance of the issue and its global implications, especially for developing countries and small island states. | The diplomat warned about the coercive and extraterrito…

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