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.
the manifest destiny of the US is to violate international laws as it fulfils its white man’s burden of creating an Holodomor on starving people unable to resist a democratic siege
The article didn’t give any arguments about the law. It mostly discussed how the idea of military action is popular among Cubans living in Florida.
