Castro’s Spies is one of six films nominated for the prestigious Audience Award at the…
Tag: US Blockade against Cuba
We have selected 10 more feature films and documentaries from and about Cuba to watch…
Fernando Leon Jacomino, Cuba’s Vice Minister for Culture, spoke to an international conference online this…
Cuba’s Minister for Culture, Alpidio Alonso, criticized US media campaign against Cuban artists including the…
Cuban artists including Los Van Van and Alexander Abreu, plus US artists Tom Morello, Michael…
A week ago, the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, asked that Cuban musicians be excluded…
As part of the growing aggressive wave of the administration of Donald Trump against Cuba,…
A new exhibition of Cuban graphic design posters from the 60s-90s: Designed in Cuba: Cold…
On 7 November, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on Cuba’s annual resolution calling…
The Miami City Commission passed on 13 June a resolution to ask the US Congress…
The British scriptwriter Paul Laverty, who won the screenplay award at the San Sebastian Film…
On 31 October, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on Cuba’s annual resolution calling…
The restrictions imposed on US citizens by the Trump administration to travel to Cuba in November 2017 go beyond the typical Cold War backdrop. In fact, they accentuate the policy of commercial, economic and financial siege to which the blockade clings, successively condemned by the UN General Assembly by absolute majority. The "hard hand" of the US president, linked to those of US politicians Marco Rubio and Diaz-Balart, not only represents a political change from the techniques of former President Barak Obama, but a new strategy of interference. It shows a natural review of and cancellation of exchanges between US and Cuban institutions.
When we talk about the blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States, the economic and material nature of the effects are more evident, but the impact felt in the cultural sphere more generally is immeasurable.