cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46137214

April 17, 2026

[weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

For more than six decades, U.S. policy toward Cuba has been based not on diplomacy but on economic warfare.

This week, Alfred de Zayas, a Cuban-American lawyer who worked in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to Belly of the Beast about how and why U.S. policy toward Cuba — even before the recent oil blockade — violates international law.

Also:

• Trump Administration Beats the Drums of War
• Miami Herald Funds Dodgy, War-Mongering Poll
• The Science Behind Cuba’s Alzheimer’s Breakthrough
• From Mercenaries to Medicare: U.S. Hypes Baseless Claims
• Building Bridges from NOLA to Cuba
• Colombia to Send Cuba Solar Panels
• Spain’s Biggest Airline to Suspend Flights to Cuba
• Amid U.S. Pressure, Cuba Welcomes Russian Industry
• Cuba Accepts 91 Deportees from U.S.