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The Trump Administration’s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.
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HAVANA, CUBA: A group of US activists, who will march to the Cuban-side security gate of the US Naval Base of Guantanamo, give a press conference 06 January 2007, at Jose Marti airport in Havana. A first-ever international delegation of former prisoners, families of current prisoners, US lawyers and human rights activists will travel to Guantanamo to hold a conference on prison abuses and to call for the closure of the illegal prison. (From L to R) Colonel Ann Wright, Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan. AFP PHOTO / ADALBERTO ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP via Getty Images)
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER 04: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump appears stage with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (R) and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a campaign rally at the J.S. Dorton Arena on November 04, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. With one day left before the general election, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground states of North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Trump Administration’s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.
Support my independent journalism at Substack: chrishedges.substack.com
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HAVANA, CUBA: A group of US activists, who will march to the Cuban-side security gate of the US Naval Base of Guantanamo, give a press conference 06 January 2007, at Jose Marti airport in Havana. A first-ever international delegation of former prisoners, families of current prisoners, US lawyers and human rights activists will travel to Guantanamo to hold a conference on prison abuses and to call for the closure of the illegal prison. (From L to R) Colonel Ann Wright, Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan. AFP PHOTO / ADALBERTO ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP via Getty Images)
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER 04: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump appears stage with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (R) and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a campaign rally at the J.S. Dorton Arena on November 04, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. With one day left before the general election, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground states of North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
