Embajada de Cuba en Reino Unido

🇬🇧🇨🇺 Today, the UK's largest trade union spoke — and they spoke unanimously.

At their National Delegate Conference in Brighton, UNISON's delegates passed a motion demanding the US remove Cuba from its State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.

Here is what that list actually means in practice:

🏥 Over half of Cuba's 651 essential medicines are currently unavailable. Operations are being performed by torchlight.

👶 Infant mortality has risen by more than 140% — from 4 to 9.2 deaths per 1,000 live births — directly linked to the blockade.

🩺 Shortages of contraception, folic acid, vitamins and early pregnancy tests are devastating women's reproductive health.

💸 Cuba's latest report to the UN estimates economic losses of over $7.6 billion in a single year — $290 million of that in the health sector alone.

And this didn't happen overnight. Under Trump's two terms, the US imposed more than 280 additional punitive measures against Cuba — on top of over six decades of illegal sanctions.

UNISON members visit Cuba every year and see it firsthand. As one young delegate put it: "This blockade is a direct attack on workers."

We are deeply moved by this act of solidarity from British workers and their union. Cuba has never stood alone — and today proves it once more. 🕊️

Thank you, UNISON. 💙

https://unison.org.uk/news/2026/06/hands-cuba

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This month, our directors, Dr Emily Morris and Dr Lauren Collins, met with Ileana Martínez González (Head of international relations) and Reynaldo Velázquez (Deputy Minister) from the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education during their visit to the UK. It was a pleasure to discuss the various projects that CRICKET is facilitating, the ministry’s priorities amidst the current crisis, and the potential for future collaboration.

Left to right: with Rosa-Angela (Cuban Embassy translator), Ileana Martínez González (Head of international relations, Ministry of Higher Education), Dr Lauren Collins (CRICKET CIC), Reynaldo Velázquez Zaldívar (Deputy Minister of Higher Education), Dr Emily Morris (CRICKET CIC) and Adis Ruenes César (First Secretary for Academic Affairs, Cuban Embassy in London).

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🇨🇺 36 measures. 17 months. One target: the Cuban people.

Since January 2025, the Trump administration has unleashed an unprecedented wave of coercive actions against Cuba. Here's what that looks like in practice:

🚫 Cubans denied visas — not just diplomats, but volleyball players, baseball kids aged 9-10, doctors, and academics.

💸 Western Union suspended. Remittances blocked. Families cut off.

🛢️ Oil sanctions extended to any country that supplies Cuba with fuel — threatening third-party nations.

🏨 Hotels blacklisted. Airbnb hosts forced to open offshore accounts or lose payments entirely.

🧬 Cuban scientists banned from accessing US health research databases.

⚖️ Foreign companies warned: do business with Cuba and your executives lose US visas.

This isn't a sanctions policy. It's a siege.

36 documented measures — targeting medicine, sport, culture, energy, finance and migration — all aimed at one island of 11 million people.

The United States calls it policy. Cuba calls it what it is: collective punishment. 🇨🇺

http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2026/06/17/medidas-de-trump-contra-cuba-en-su-segundo-mandato-el-cerco-total-que-castiga-al-pueblo-cubano/