2026-05-31: Cuba Roundup

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Ed Newman (2026-05-31). Former U.S. intelligence officials warn of failed aggression against Cuba. radiohc.cu Former US intelligence officials, grouped in the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) collective, sent a memorandum to President Donald Trump, warning that aggression against Cuba would lead to catastrophic failure, reported the Cuban Television Midday News. | The document indicated that Washington's current strategy could result in a humanitarian disaster for which the United States would be responsible, and stressed that any military option would drag the country into a war lost from the outset. | According to the text, there is no evidence of Cuban operational support for terrorist organization…

Leon Kunstenaar (2026-05-31). Rally at Brazilian Consulate Demands Lula Send Oil to Cuba. indybay.org Cuba has been under US attack, economic, one invasion, and subversion since 1962. Their crime was to kick out US crime connected corporations and institute a socialist economy.

Ed Newman (2026-05-31). Confessed Terrorists Pardoned by Washington. radiohc.cu By Hedelberto López Blanch * / Special Collaboration for Resumen Latinoamericano. | There are countless stories of confessed terrorists who committed acts of aggression, attacks, and assaults against Cuban civilian facilities over the past 67 years, and who have lived and continue to live peacefully in the United States. | From the early days of 1959, countless murderers belonging to the defeated army of dictator Fulgencio Batista traveled to the United States, where they obtained safe haven and immunity for the crimes they committed. | Among them were Esteban Ventura Novo, Rolando Masferrer, and José Eleuterio P…

Ed Newman (2026-05-31). Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa meets Belarusian president in Astana. radiohc.cu Salvador Valdés Mesa, member of the Political Bureau and Vice President of Cuba, held a meeting this Friday in Astana, Kazakhstan, with Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus, prior to the start of the sessions of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cubaminrex.

Ed Newman (2026-05-31). May 20th: A Neo-colony Was Born in Cuba. radiohc.cu By Hedelberto López Blanch * | An incorrigible mythomaniac like U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a press conference commemorating May 20, 1902, the date on which a neo-colony controlled by Washington was established in Cuba. | Rubio, who during his time in Congress, the Senate, and now at the State Department has promoted more than 300 new measures that reinforce the blockade that has lasted for more than six decades, dared to repeat that Cuba is a failed nation and even threatened military aggression to try to change the island's system of government. | Cuba's so-called independence, on that May 20th, wa…

Agence France-Presse (2026-05-31). Firms spent heavily on AI. Now rising costs are outpacing its value. scmp.com AI is getting expensive — and companies are starting to rethink their embrace of the disruptive technology. | Playing by a well-worn Silicon Valley playbook, artificial intelligence companies charged rock-bottom prices to hook customers after ChatGPT burst onto the scene. | Kevin Simback of start-up incubator Delphi Labs calls it the era of "subsidised intelligence" — meaning investors were basically footing the bill so companies could offer AI on the cheap.

LVP (2026-05-31). BREAK Oil Blockade! At SF Brazilian Consulate Demands that Lula/Brazil Send Oil to Cuba. indybay.org

Maria Candela Hechavarria Carmenate (2026-05-31). Exoficiales de inteligencia de EE.UU. alertan fracaso de agresión a Cuba. radiohc.cu Exfuncionarios de inteligencia de Estados Unidos, agrupados en el colectivo Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), enviaron un memorando al presidente Donald Trump este jueves 28 de mayo en el que advirtieron que una agresión contra Cuba conduciría a un fracaso catastrófico. | El documento señaló que la actual estrategia de Washington podría derivar en un desastre humanitario del cual Estados Unidos sería responsable, y subrayó que cualquier opción militar arrastraría al país a una guerra perdida de antemano, informó el Noticiero del Mediodía de la Televisión cubana. | Según el texto, no existen ev…

JANET (2026-05-30). Stand with Cuba! Protest! Picket! Sunday, May 31. iacenter.org

Javier Perez Jimenez (2026-05-31). At Least 34 Injured and 130 Arrested in Paris after PSG Victory. radiohc.cu Havana, May 30 (RHC) — At least 34 people were injured and 130 were arrested today, after the center of this capital was paralyzed, where 40,000 people enjoyed and celebrated, many with violence, the victory of PSG in the Champions League. | The fervor following the Parisian club's 4-3 penalty shootout victory over Arsenal in Budapest overwhelmed the police deployment implemented by the Interior Ministry throughout the country, particularly in Paris. | Fireworks, stampedes by fans, burning bicycles and motorcycles, six damaged vehicles, and at least two completely destroyed businesses are the official police…

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