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Reflections on Cuban Ambassador Visit

July 12, 2022 Hayat Imam

by Hayat Imam It is increasingly clear that the unjustifiable Blockade of Cuba by the U.S. is a sanction on the collective idea of Cuba, and what Cuba stands for. I offer this brief tribute today to the inspiration and hope the name of Cuba […]

L to R; Boston City Councilors Erin Murphy, Julia Mejia, and Kendra Lara; Ambassador Torres; Mayor Michelle Wu; and Councilors Brian Worrell and Frank Baker, at City Hall on June 29. MAPA photo
Latin America

MAPA Hosts Cuban Ambassador’s Visit to Boston Area

July 12, 2022 Merri Ansara

by Merri Ansara Cuban Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera visited metropolitan Boston June 28 to July 1, accompanied by her 2nd Secretary Juliette Tain Dominguez.   Over four days, the Ambassador and 2nd Secretary met with the Cambridge City Council, the Boston City Council and Mayor Wu, […]

Latin America

Biden’s Cuba Policy Changes: Too Little, Too Slow

June 9, 2022 Catherine Henning

by Cate Henning  For more than 60 years, the United States has been imposing sanctions on Cuba in an effort to suppress and defeat the Cuban Revolution and the country’s socialist government. This embargo restricts sales to Cuba from the United States and many other […]

Latin America

Abortion in Cuba vs US shows which country is truly democratic

May 23, 2022 Calla Walsh

by Calla Walsh Originally published in Multipolarista on May 23, 2022. When I connected to wifi for the first time in five days, a notification appeared on my phone announcing that the Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Like most people when […]

Action Report

Free U.S. Political Prisoners: Journalist Julian Assange and Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab

May 10, 2022 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky On Friday, May 6, 2022, more than a dozen peace activists from Western Massachusetts held a protest outside Congressman Jim McGovern ‘s office in Northampton, demanding freedom for Julian Assange and Alex Saab. Julian Assange was arrested in 2019 at the Ecuadorian embassy […]

Latin America

Coming to Cuba has been a tremendous experience

May 9, 2022 Cole Harrison

by Yamilka Alvarez Ramos Agencia Cuba de Noticias.  Translated by Merriam Ansara Guantanamo, May 5 (ACN) Calla Walsh, the youngest delegate of the VII International Seminar for Peace and for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases that is in session until today in Guantanamo, vehemently […]

Latin America

War Creates Immigrants, and all People Displaced by War Deserve Asylum

May 3, 2022 Sunny Robinson

By Sunny Robinson War creates immigrants. In many ways, that is really all that needs to be said. If we – the people of the world – are to be able to remain in their own countries, and prosper there, and the United States especially, […]

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