Blockade of Cuba

United States fines company for sending food to Cuba

United States fines company for sending food to Cuba

Once again, OFAC punishes, which shows that the real objective is to asphyxiate Cuba and generate suffering among its people

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

july 4, 2025 08:07:09

Photo: AP

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), of the U.S. Treasury Department, imposed a fine of 608,825 dollars to the company Key Holding, LLC, owner of Key Logistics Colombia S.A.S., for making 36 shipments to Cuba between 2022 and 2023, valued at more than three million dollars. Most of these shipments consisted of foodstuffs, along with oil well machinery, towels and electric forage choppers.

The case – disseminated by media financed by U.S. government agencies such as USAID and NED – is presented as a “violation of the embargo”, deliberately omitting that the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba is a criminal policy that directly affects the Cuban people, preventing the entry of medicines, food and essential resources.

Once again, OFAC punishes even the shipment of food, which shows that the real objective is to suffocate Cuba and generate suffering among its people.

The blockade is not a simple “bilateral measure”, it is a system of extraterritorial coercion that persecutes any company or country that tries to trade with Cuba.

Cuban Solidarity

Cuba vigorously condemns the attacks perpetrated by Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The United States and Israel will have to respond to the consequences of an unjustified war against Iran

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

june 14, 2025 13:06:37

Cuba
Photo: Taken from Cubaminrex

Cuba vigorously condemns the attacks perpetrated by Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Cuban Government observes with extreme concern the events taking place in the Middle East and strongly condemns the attacks perpetrated by Israel in the early hours of morning on June 13, 2025 and the threat of war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, in flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and International Law, including the principles of sovereignty and the no threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of any State.

The aggressive policy of the State of Israel and its reprehensible and irresponsible actions are only possible thanks to the military, financial, logistic and political support granted by the government of the United States, thus placing international and regional stability and security in greater danger, with unforeseeable consequences for humanity.

Cuba reaffirms its solidarity with the people and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and alerts to the danger of a further escalation in the region and a larger conflagration and calls on the international community, particularly the Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly, to exercise their primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security and put an immediate end to this aggression and the impunity with which the Zionist regime is acting.

The ceasing of the genocide against Palestine is of the essence.

Once again, we reiterate that peace in the Middle East should be based on a comprehensive, fair and lasting solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which includes the creation of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Havana, June 13, 2025

Cuban Economy

CUBA AND BELARUS

Medicines, dairy industry, assembly of tractors… and other niches of possible cooperation

The Cuban-Belarusian intergovernmental commission concluded with the signing of several agreements

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

may 21, 2025 09:05:39

Mundo
Photo: Luis Jiménez Echevarría

The signing of several interbank, business and institutional agreements resulted from the 12th session of the Cuban-Belarusian Intergovernmental Commission for economic-commercial collaboration, held yesterday.

The meeting highlighted “the projects for the joint production of medicines, the development of the Cuban Dairy Complex, with Belarusian raw material and technology; and the second phase of tractor assembly, as initiatives with the highest level of progress for the period 2025-2026,” said the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment (Mincex), Carlos Luis Jorge Méndez.

He stressed that the formal dialogue has been surpassed, giving priority to the exchange between the business delegations of both sides to agree on future contracts and projects that make effective the participation of Belarusian companies in the National Plan for Economic and Social Development of Cuba until 2030, especially in sectors of mutual interest, such as agri-food, industrial, transportation, health, biopharmaceuticals, among others, in which real potential for economic complementation is observed”.

The signatures, also presided over by the Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Evgeni Shestakov, contributed to establishing work priorities to be developed in the short, medium and long term, which confirms the important role of the business sector of both countries in the implementation of the agreements reached.

The Belarusian Vice-Chancellor, at the closing of the event, emphasized that the work by sector will allow “to achieve all those plans and objectives that have been set in search of new collaboration niches”.

JOSÉ MARTÍ, MAY 19

In everything José Martí wrote he left his soul

In Martí are all the keys

Martí thought, lived and left for us the score of that music called Homeland

Author:  | informacion@granma.cu

may 19, 2025 08:05:30

Photo: Internet
Artwork of Kamill Bullaudy 

In everything José Martí wrote he left his soul; but his life, since he opened his eyes, and until he fell fighting for freedom in the Cuban fields, 130 years ago, was summarized in that kind of lyrical sentence he entitled Yugo y Estrella (Yoke and Star).

He was born “without sun”, and still a child, he knew what to choose between those two insignias, and how sadly comfortable it is to live, if “you serve the lords”; and also the growth, far from any involution, that entails sticking to the star. He was a child when the ignominy of slavery wrung his throat and at the foot of the dead he swore / to wash away the crime with his life; a child when he charted the course of his heroic existence.

Slave of his age and his doctrines, the adolescent paid a very high price for the love of his homeland. At the age of 15, he had created the newspaper La Patria Libre, and in the only issue that would circulate, would burn the verses of Abdala, an epic poem in which its protagonist, in circumstances similar to those of its author, knew that to throw off the yoke that oppressed his country was the only possible destiny.

That was the age of prison, which deprived him of his mother’s arms, and threw him into perpetual pain, “because the pain of prison is the harshest, the most devastating of pains, the one that kills the intelligence, and dries the soul, and leaves traces in it that will never be erased”.

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