{"id":5108,"date":"2021-08-19T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2021-08-19T22:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:10:32","slug":"there-is-an-ongoing-war-against-the-people-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/there-is-an-ongoing-war-against-the-people-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"There is an ongoing war against the people in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manolo De Los Santos talks to Peoples Dispatch about the letter signed by 400 leaders from across the globe calling for US president Joe Biden to suspend unilateral coercive measures against Cuba<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2021\/07\/24\/there-is-an-ongoing-war-against-the-people-in-cuba\/\">July 24, 2021<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2021\/07\/24\/there-is-an-ongoing-war-against-the-people-in-cuba\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/author\/pd\/\">Peoples Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzTRqvowwkQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=129&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Cuba faces the challenge of protecting its population from COVID-19 and dealing with the economic impacts of the economic blockade imposed by the United States, right-wing activists supported by the US have scaled up attacks on the island. Amid the intensification of attacks against Cuba and the critical humanitarian situation, over 400 political leaders, activists, and artists around the world signed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.letcubalive.com\/\">letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to US President Joe Biden demanding an end to coercive measures on Cuba. Manolo De Los Santos of The People\u2019s Forum talks about the letter and the situation in Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manolo De Los Santos talks to Peoples Dispatch about the letter signed by 400 leaders from across the globe calling for US president Joe Biden<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/there-is-an-ongoing-war-against-the-people-in-cuba\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":5109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8093,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/young-leaders-from-the-us-pledge-to-fight-blockade-of-cuba\/","url_meta":{"origin":5108,"position":0},"title":"Young leaders from the US pledge to fight blockade of Cuba","author":"Editorial Team","date":"May 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Hear from some of the 150 young organizers from the US that traveled to Cuba as part of the 2023 May Day Brigade with the International Peoples\u2019 Assembly","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8062,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/over-150-youth-leaders-from-the-us-will-travel-to-cuba-for-international-workers-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":5108,"position":1},"title":"Over 150 youth leaders from the US will travel to Cuba for International Workers\u2019 Day","author":"Editorial Team","date":"April 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"While reactionary legislators in the US want to enshrine Cuba\u2019s membership on the politicized \u201cState Sponsors of Terrorism\u201d list\u00a0into law, people in the US have a different view of Cuba. 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