Dear Friends,
We hope you’re all doing well. Today CDA joined forces with seven other organizations to denounce the Trump administration’s latest Cuba remittance restrictions which have resulted in Western Union, Cuba’s main remittance sender, announcing the closure of its Cuba operations. The statement is available on our website in English and in Spanish.
Cuba experienced an increase in COVID-19 cases this week, with 363 active COVID-19 cases at the time of publication. Cuba’s total number of deaths since March is 131. For a graph of case numbers since March, see here. For a detailed breakdown of all COVID-19 data, visit this website.
Over the next few weeks, we will be interviewing Cuban Americans and Cubans to reflect on the results of the U.S. presidential election and share their hopes for the future of U.S.-Cuba relations in a Biden-Harris administration.
This week we interviewed Manuel R. Gómez. Manuel is a Cuban American occupational and environmental health and safety professional who lives with his family between Washington, D.C. and Miami Beach. Manuel was the founder and Executive Director of the Cuban American Committee for the Normalization of Relations in the 1970s and 80s. He was formerly a member of the CDA Board of Directors.
To read this week’s interview with Manuel R. Gómez, visit the “U.S.-Cuba Relations” section.
This week, in Cuba news…
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