After some 16 months of studying Trump’s severe tightening of the longstanding US economic blockade of Cuba that contributed to serious food & medicine shortages and a sharp increase in Cubans attempting to enter the US without a visa, these policy steps include increasing consular services and visa processing, and limited broadening of travel opportunities to Cuba.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Tuesday the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba was “genocidal policy,” raising the stakes in a standoff with Washington over its treatment of the Communist-ruled Caribbean island.
American schools require no more than 45 minutes of music education a week, and most of that is just fumbling with plastic recorders. If you look 90 miles south, you’ll find a country that treats their music department the way Texas treats youth football.
Virtual meeting May 24th to hear about the experiences of the International May Day Brigade; delegates of Brigadistas from around the world met for two weeks with union workers, farmers, neighborhood groups, health and scientific workers, women’s groups, and artists!
University of Minnesota and the National School of Public Health of Cuba (ENSAP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday with the aim of strengthening their academic and research ties,
Hurry! Applications now open through May 31st
Milwaukee Car & Bike Caravan, Sunday 5/29/22 to call for lifting the US blockade on Cuba
Video produced by BreakThrough News offers a convenient background of the long-term situation of the Cuban people, a result of decades of U.S. Cuba policy.
An Op-Ed by Anthony DePalma in the LA Times on the libreta, whose pages dictate the Cuban ration system.
Upcoming Travel to Cuba
Cuba’s lack of vaccine hesitancy is due to the homegrown nature of the vaccines, clear messaging, and Cuba’s healthcare model.
Reuters: Cuba’s vaccine coverage and focus on children helped beat back Omicron, experts say
Meet the U.S. Students Studying Medicine For Free in Cuba – from BreakThrough News.
Save the Date: Dr. Helen Yaffe, Acclaimed Lecturer & Author on Cuba, in Wisconsin on March 30
The International US-Cuba Normalization Conference – March 19-20, online & live in NYC
Join us for Milwaukee International Women’s Day 2022, where we will hear from one of the Wisconsin women Doctors educated tuition free in Cuba.
Join us for the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Annual Lucius Walker Memorial Awards and Benefits, Sunday February 27 from 4-6PM CT on Zoom and Facebook Live.
Op-Ed from mmigration Attorney José Pertierra: The Blockade of Cuba: Hopefully the American People Will Wake Up.
Washington Informer: Consortium of Mayors Organizes to Bring Cuban Medical Brigade to U.S.
NPR: CIA Report Shows No Evidence Linking Havana Syndrome to a Foreign Country
People’s World: U.S. government pays big money for bad news about Cuba
NPR: Protesters in Cuba face severe sentences as crackdown continues
Applications Open for the July 16 Friendshipment Caravan with IFCO/Pastors for Peace.
Cuba now has 5 COVID vaccines in various stages, including 3 which are authorized by the Cuban government for use and export, and 2 still in trials. Read more at NPR’s Goats and Soda.
Cuba pledges “lifesaving package” of Covid-19 vaccine support to Global South at Progressive International briefing.
COVID-19 Response in Chicago and Havana, sponsored by the University of Chicago School of Public Health and Cuba’s National School of Public Health.
Christmas Vigil Thursday, Dec 23rd at 6PM: Peace on Earth & Lift the US Blockade on Cuba
Reuters: Cuba to upgrade homegrown COVID-19 vaccine to confront Omicron
Senator Patrick Leahy Condemns White House Policy on Cuba
Watch: Season 2, Episode 6 of The War on Cuba by Belly of the Beast
Webinar: Perspectives from Cuba of November 15 Protests and Consequences
Save the Date: January Webinar on COVID-19 Response in Chicago and Havana
An authoritative report from two Canadian scholars & experts on Cuba on why the highly touted Nov 15 protests failed.
Portside: Cuba’s Vaccine Could End Up Saving Millions of Lives
At our November monthly meeting, our WI Cuba Coalition agreed to suspend our Milwaukee end of the month, Sunday caravans, and thus there will be no more caravans in 2021, nor in […]
Season 2 of The War on Cuba, a docuseries by Havana-based media group Belly of the Beast is out this Nov.
Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK and the human rights organization Global Exchange, writes on the failed Nov 15 attempt by “dissidents on the island, with their U.S. backers,” […]
Some Suggested Readings on Cuba, U.S. and the Current Situation
THE GUARDIAN: Cuba’s National Zoo sees surge in pandemic baby animals.
As Biden meets with Pope Francis, Milwaukeeans Caravan to End US Blockade of Cuba, on Sunday Oct. 31 at 1pm.
See the international webinar premiere of award-winning short film Cuba in Africa.
Gail Walker, Executive Director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, brings us a report back direct from two weeks in Cuba, and we learn firsthand experience from two new Wisconsin graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba, Drs. Olive Albanese and Alexandra Skeeter. Moderated by Omar Barberena.
See the informative webinar from September, “COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Deployment: The Cuban Case” from the Harvard David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
DEMOCRACY NOW: Cuban Diplomat on U.S. Blockade, Havana’s Homegrown Vaccines & Biden’s Hypocrisy on Human Rights
Sanctions Kill Report: The Impact and Consequences of U.S. Sanctions from the Sanctions Kill Coalition.
Highlights from September 26 Caravan
Milwaukee Car & Bike Caravan – Sunday, October 31
Cuban Pianist, Composer, and Arranger Chucho Valdés at the Marcus Center October 2
Sunday’s Caravan to End the US Blockade of Cuba Will Welcome WI MDs Just Graduated from Acclaimed Cuban Medical School.
Our next monthly coalition meeting will take place Tuesday, September 14 at 7:00 PM on Zoom.
Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba 
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