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CUBA and the Unites States formally re-established diplomatic ties yesterday, reopening their embassies at one minute past midnight.
The Cuban flag was raised in the grounds of the socialist nation’s former interests section in Washington, now upgraded to embassy status for the first time since 1961.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addressed hundreds of guests at the embassy just a few blocks from the White House.
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
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON