Lima, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) Cubans living in Peru described the suspension of visas for those linked to Cuban cooperation programs as a new attack against their country by the Donald Trump regime.

This is what the Association of Cuban Residents in Peru, “Raíces Mambisas,” stated in a statement rejecting the measure and pointing out that it is the seventh aggression against Cuba with increasingly serious decisions.

The text demands the cessation of all arbitrary and illegal actions by the United States government that so harm the Cuban people and their right to sovereignty.

It reviews the historic international solidarity of Cuban medical brigades, which began in 1963 with their first mission in Algeria and have acted in Peru since 1970, in the face of earthquakes and epidemics.

“Our dignified and heroic ‘White Coats’ have been present in countries that need support and hope for life, where the right to health has never existed before,” adds the statement from the Cuban migrants, which also highlights the training of thousands of Latin American doctors who are returning to serve their people.

He notes that, due to their altruistic action, the Cuban medical brigades have earned recognition from the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization.

It also highlights the Washington government’s prohibition on exchanges between American and Cuban scientists, creators of the vaccines against Covid-19 that protected millions of Cubans from the disease.

“We denounce before the world the arbitrary and illegal measures imposed on Cuba by the United States and demand that the permanent aggressions of the current US administration that so harm the Cuban people be stopped,” adds the Association of Cuban Residents in Peru “Raíces Mambisas.”

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Havana, Mar 4 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said today that despite cuts in USAID funds, its interim administrator, US Secretary of State Marcos Rubio, uses taxpayers’ money in subversive plans against Cuba.

“While the US government announces a 90% cut in #USAID funds for more than 54 billion usd, its interim administrator, in line with his corrupt personal agenda, chooses to use taxpayers’ money in subversive programs against Cuba and not in international development,” Rodriguez stressed on the X social network.

In recent days, the top Cuban diplomat revealed that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested more than 120 million dollars to subvert the constitutional order in Cuba.

In this regard, the foreign minister described as unusual that an official development agency should use money to support a change of government and enrich those who see a business in the suffering of the Cuban people.

The Cuban Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, stated that the current US government’s declared policy is aggressive.

They themselves have said that their purpose is to continue putting economic pressure on Cuba, to continue creating difficulties for the Cuban economy and thus cause greater hardships, greater problems for the well-being of the Cubans, for the living conditions in the country’, warned the deputy foreign minister in an interview granted to Prensa Latina.

According to the diplomat, ‘it remains to be seen exactly what they are going to do, but one should not be surprised that they have the will and the capacity to continue punishing the Cuban population as a whole on the basis of coercive economic measures’.

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Havana, March 2 (RHC) — Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío spoke with a representation of compatriots residing in the United States Saturday evening in Washington, DC.

At the meeting, held at the Cuban Embassy in the U.S. capital, Fernández de Cossío explained the current and foreseeable characteristics of how bilateral ties could behave and the eventual impact on the island.

He said that the purpose is to increase what in Donald Trump’s first term (2017-2021) was called the policy of maximum pressure and that some, for a long time, have aspired to see the end of the Cuban Revolution, “because of the way this government speaks, they believe that that moment is near,” he emphasized to the audience.

“Some beilieve that intoxication it is really possible,” warned the deputy foreign minister, who did not rule out that in the “next days, months…” there will be more measures throughout this administration since there is the effort to do so.

Artists, lawyers, businessmen, religious people, among others, were the attendees, all united by the desire that the blockade and hostile policies imposed by Washington be eliminated and that a rapprochement be produced that would be favorable for both peoples.

Fernández de Cossío reiterated that the United States Government knows that there is a will on the part of Cuba to build a respectful relationship.

On Friday, at the headquarters of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), with the coordination of the Latin American Working Group (LAWG) and Friends of Latin America, the Cuban deputy minister of foreign affairs recalled that on his first day in office, President Trump reinstated Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, reversing an executive order issued on January 14th by then-President Joseph Biden.

He noted that “Trump’s revocation is in line with his administration’s hardline stance on Cuba and has the support of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has long advocated for sanctions against the island nation.”

“This way of enforcing the economic blockade, its reinforcement and the new aggressive measures will continue to have severely harmful effects on the Cuban economy, the standard of living, the development potential and the legitimate dreams of justice and well-being of the Cuban people, as has been the case in recent years,” stated Carlos Fernández de Cossío.

The event — in person and virtually  — was moderated by James Early, one of the members of the IPS Board of Directors.

(Source: Prensa Latina)

Paris, Mar 2 (Prensa Latina) The Cuba Linda association today highlighted the organization in France of five travel groups to the island that will combine tourist activities with the rapprochement to the island and its challenges in the face of US hostility.

Speaking to Prensa Latina, the president of the association created in 1998, Didier Lalande, said that more than 70 French are part of the groups, with the first of them arriving in Cuba at the end of next week.

In addition to getting to know the natural beauty of the island and its people, these visits will make it possible to see the reality of a people that is resisting in the midst of many hardships an economic, commercial and financial blockade of more than 60 years, he said.

According to Lalande, on the trips the participants will carry donations in their luggage, particularly medicines.

He also said that Cuba Linda will follow up and support projects such as Soñarte, a community initiative in Havana, and Korimakao, which promotes culture in Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas.

Regarding the traditional French presence in the celebrations of May 1st, International Workers’ Day, in Cuba, he stressed that two of the organized groups will participate.

In April, Lalande will receive the Friendship Medal awarded by the Cuban government to people with a solidarity history and accompaniment to the Caribbean nation.

This recognition was given in November in Paris, on the eve of the XIX European Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, to several Frenchmen for their support and commitment in actions such as the struggle against the U.S. blockade, at a time when the president of Cuba Linda was in Havana.

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