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AJ+ video: https://youtu.be/g4OotxZLnXU

Blockade Laws

Cuba’s Report under United Nations General Assembly resolution 78/7 entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial andfinancial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” July, 2024: https://cubaminrex.cu/en/cubas-report-under-united-nations-general-assembly-resolution-787

National Security Archive: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2022-02-02/cuba-embargoed-us-trade-sanctions-turn-sixty

Trading with the enemy act: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=%2Fprelim%40title50%2Fchapter53&edition=prelim

Foreign Assistance Act (1961)

• https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2024-10-14/the-foreign-assistance-act-a-powerful-chain-against-cuba
• https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-1071.pdf

Presidential Proclamation 3447: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-76/pdf/STATUTE-76-Pg1446.pdf

Cuban Assets Control Regulations of the Department of the Treasury (1963): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/09/2019-19411/cuban-assets-control-regulations

Export Administration Act (1979): https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/senate-bill/737/text

Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 1979): https://www.bis.gov/regulations

Cuban Democracy Act or Torricelli Act (1992): https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/5323

Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act or Helms-Burton Act (1996): https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/927

Section 211 of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1999: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/4328

Trade Sanction Reform and Export Enhancement Act (2000): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-31/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-515/subpart-E/section-515.560

The U.S. and Israel has voted against the UN resolution to lift the blockade on Cuba since 1992 (Voting Data): https://digitallibrary.un.org/search?ln=en&cc=Voting+Data&p=Necessity+of+ending+the+economic%2C+commercial+and+financial+embargo+imposed+by+the+United+States+of+America+against+Cuba&f=&rm=&sf=&so=d&rg=50&c=Voting+Data&c=&of=hb&fti=0&fti=0

”Throughout the trip, members of the delegation from the Reform & Revolution Caucus (R&R) and the Socialist Majority Caucus (SMC) criticized the Cuban government both to our Cuban hosts and other DSA members, and skipped out on multiple delegation events. Most shamefully, both Maria (representing R&R) and Renée (representing SMC, and a member of the current NPC) skipped out on meeting with President Díaz-Canel, who spent more than 2 hours in a frank discussion specifically addressing the critiques these very same DSA members brought up to their Cuban hosts earlier on the trip.”

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”Maria in particular met with anti-government opposition groups while on delegation, which when taken together with the fact of her skipping the meeting with the comrade President suggests a goal of undermining the Cuban socialist state, not defending it against U.S. imperialism.”

Cuban Links: No Tolerance For Disorganizing Chauvinism: https://redstarcaucus.org/cuban-links/

”One of the most eyebrow-raising panels at the 2019 Socialism Conference is entitled “China and the US: Inter-Imperial Rivalry or Class Struggle and Solidarity?” The panel portrays the US and China as equally malicious imperialist powers, downplaying and whitewashing the uniquely destructive nature of Washington’s foreign wars and corporate domination.”

”The panel features three speakers, two of whom work for anti-China groups that are funded by the US government’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy. The third speaker is Ashley Smith, a former leader of the ISO who has spent the past eight years romanticizing foreign-backed, far-right sectarian Islamist “moderate rebels” in Syria.”

”The first speaker listed on the panel is Elaine Lu, the program officer at China Labor Watch. This group is described by the Socialism conference website simply as “a New York-based NGO advocating for workers’ rights in China.”

”What Socialism Conference sponsors DSA, Jacobin, and Haymarket did not disclose is that its speaker’s employer is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.“

”The NED states without qualification that its goals include supporting “free markets” abroad. At the top of the about page on its website is a video of right-wing cold warrior Ronald Reagan inaugurating the US government-funded body.“

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/

Benjamin Norton discusses how the CIA has spent decades supporting pro-imperialist factions of the Western left, which it calls the “compatible left” or “non-communist left,” in order to advance US foreign-policy interests: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1gecyk2/the_us_embassy_in_france_is_funding_a_feminist/

Cold War 2: US officials call to overthrow China’s gov’t, expand military budget to $1.4 trillion: https://youtu.be/Q3RMl33SqNE