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SOLIDARITY campaigners welcomed US President Barack Obama’s ending of the “wet-foot/dry foot” policy which saw Cuban immigrants risk their lives at sea.
The contentious policy, introduced under former president Bill Clinton, stipulated that any migrants intercepted at sea would be sent home, but those who set foot on US soil could remain.
Cuba has long protested that the policy encourages its citizens to risk their lives on the 90-mile sea journey to Florida.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS