CUBA and the United States ended the latest round of talks on lifting the criminal blockade of the island on Wednesday.
Cuban Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca met US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, the first White House cabinet member to visit Havana since Secretary of State John Kerry reopened the US embassy in August.
Mr Malmierca said: “We know it will not be an easy process, there are many differences, but the willingness exists.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
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


