- Our Principles -
The Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba consists of both organizations and individuals who have come together based on the points of unity and principles listed below. We hope you also subscribe to them and will join us.
We support the normalization of relations with Cuba.
We oppose any policy of our government designed to increase the misery of the Cuban people in order to obtain political gain.
We oppose the ban on travel to Cuba; and the recently intensified U.S. economic embargo, which has restricted even food and medicine, and discouraged third countries that seek to trade with Cuba.
We support and encourage increased person-to-person contact between the U.S. and Cuba, such as through religious, union, professional, and cultural organizations. U.S. businesses should be allowed to trade with Cuba on the basis of mutual benefit.
We especially seek to overcome the artificial barriers dividing African-Americans in the U.S. from people in Cuba, where a vibrant Afro-Cuban culture continues to thrive.
We also seek to particularly involve and promote activities by area residents of Latin American and Caribbean origin, so they may freely relate to our brothers and sisters in Cuba and help relieve their suffering in the current period.
The coalition is non-partisan and non-sectarian. It is not affiliated with and does not support any political party or candidate.
We do not presume to tell the people of Cuba what political or economic system they should adopt; that is their decision, on behalf of a sovereign nation with the right of self-determination.
The coalition may share and forward information on related activities challenging the embargo that we, as a coalition, have not formally endorsed (such as study tours, and challenges to U.S. restrictions).
In late September, The Nation’s publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and its editor, D.D. Guttenplan, met with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel for an exclusive interview in New York.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was charged in a superseding federal indictment on Thursday with conspiracy by a public official to act as a foreign agent, intensifying the legal peril facing the veteran lawmaker as he continues to resist calls to resign.
Hear Omara Portuondo, the last member of Cuba’s famed Buena Vista Social Club in Milwaukee, October 15
While political differences may shut doors, science forges its own way. Despite U.S.-Cuba relations not nearing the warmth experienced during the Barack Obama era, researchers from both nations remain steadfast in their pursuit of collaboration.
Bob Menendez, who spearheads the brutal US sanctions regime against several sovereign nations, was asked to resign after corruption charges were filed against him.
The Biden administration intends to offer increased financial assistance from the U.S. to Cuba’s private sector, aiming to relax constraints on the island, as reported by Bloomberg. It’s promises haven’t been implemented yet.
Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at embassy in the second attack since shots were fired at diplomatic compound in 2020.
Cuba has shared video evidence of a person hurling two Molotov cocktails within the Cuban Embassy premises in Washington, D.C., last Sunday, denouncing it as an act of terrorism.
Emphasizing the importance of tackling the underlying reasons for migration, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed to U.S. sanctions on nations like Cuba and Venezuela as a key factor pushing migrants to traverse Mexico in search of a better future in the United States on Monday.
Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the Dialogues of the XV BRICS Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 24, 2023.
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