🇷🇺 Two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are set to reach Cuba in days.

[womanofthehills]

And Mexico is defying Trump and suggesting they might send oil to Cuba and China gave Cuba 5000 solar panels. All this while Trump wants to starve Cuban people. Will Trump let the Russian ship get to Cuba or will he take the oil????

CODE PINK

🇨🇺🇷🇺 Two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are set to reach Cuba in days.

The U.S. has unilaterally decided Cuba is “prohibited” from receiving the tankers.

Why does the U.S. think it has a say?

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And

In the midst of the current energy crisis in #Cuba, the installation of 5,000 solar systems donated by the People's Republic of China is underway across the country.

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⛴️ NOW: We're loading up 30 tons of aid on the flotilla as part of the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba to break the blockade!

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“European activists delivered five tons of medical supplies to a Havana hospital, part of an international solidarity convoy aimed at breaking the US blockade on Cuba and supporting the island’s struggling healthcare system“

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[markodochartaigh]

1. Republicans:

"See, socialist health care doesn't work!"

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[womanofthehills]

3. Volunteers from three continents are set to converge in Havana this weekend,

Wow! The world has come to Cuba’s aid while Trump & Rubio’s plan to starve the Cuban people is thwarted.

“Volunteers from three continents are set to converge in Havana this weekend, with more than 20 tonnes of food, medicine and solar equipment for Cuban communities hit by a brutal US blockade.

Activists from more than a dozen countries have signed up to participate in the Nuestra America Convoy, which will see Irish rap trio Kneecap and American streamer Hasan Piker join journalists, politicians and high-profile participants of last year’s Gaza aid flotilla in Havana on 21 March.

Alongside up to half a dozen boats that will sail across the Caribbean Sea from Mexico on Thursday, two charter flights are scheduled to arrive later this week, while hundreds of ordinary people carrying suitcases packed with medicines have booked tickets on commercial airlines from around the world.

While the US has had some form of blockade on Cuba since the 1950s, Donald Trump has significantly escalated it by threatening to impose tariffs on any country that sells fuel to the island nation, leading to widespread blackouts and disruption to the delivery of food and the production and distribution of medicine. Even everyday essentials such as toothpaste, soap, shampoo and baby food are now difficult to obtain, plunging the country into humanitarian crisis.

Organisers say the largest charter flight alone will carry more than £300,000 of aid, including food, medicines, surgical equipment and hygiene supplies, to be distributed by Cuban civil society organisations and directly to hospitals and clinics across the island. The convoy will also deliver nearly £400,000 worth of solar panels and generators.

In a statement, Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn condemned the blockade. “For more than six decades, the US blockade has tried to suffocate the Cuban example - a country that, despite relentless economic pressure, built universal healthcare and life expectancy comparable to or higher than the United States,” he said. “Now the Trump administration is escalating that siege in an attempt to break Cuba altogether.

“People across the world must stand with the Cuban people, oppose these punitive policies, and demand the right of every nation to live, develop, and determine its own future free from intimidation.”

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[AZJonnie]

4. Awesome (esp. all the medical supplies aid)!!!

Yay, humanity!!!

[malaise]

5. Glad to hear this

Rec

[womanofthehills]

6. Code Pink on plane to Cuba

💗 We're flying to Cuba with a plane full of medical aid & delegates to support the Cuban people in the face of the heinous US blockade.

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CodePink (CODEPINK: Women for Peace) is flying 6,300 pounds (approximately 2.86 metric tons or 2.8 tons) of medical supplies and equipment into Cuba.