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CUBA and the US sealed the re-establishment of full diplomatic ties on Wednesday, despite fierce opposition from US Congress rightwingers.
Cuban President Raul Castro and his US counterpart Barack Obama exchanged formal letters confirming the normalisation of relations for the first time since 1961.
“There are those who want to turn back the clock and double down on a policy of isolation,” Mr Obama said at the White House. “But it’s long past time for us to realise that this approach doesn’t work.” Jeffrey DeLaurentis was named as the US ambassador.
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