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A new campaign by the Los Angeles-based U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee is demanding that Cubans be allowed to compete in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The U.S. Embassy in Havana, under Marco Rubio’s State Department, has refused to issue visas for numerous Cuban athletes and coaches, which has stopped them from competing in pre-Olympic qualifying events.

Poem by MURID ABUKHATER, Palestinian doctor received from the ELAM founded by Fidel Castro Ruz and inspired by the revolutionary values ​​of Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna (from Resumen)

Suddenly previously unknown online travel sites are popping up with blaring and alarming false headlines that travel to Cuba could result in exorbitant fines. Not true! The reality is travel to Cuba is legal for many purposes that are not “tourism.”

A project related delegation is heading to Santa Clara. You are invited to join us. We are launching a ‘Positive Period’ pad project.  We’ll fly in through Havana and carry medical supplies and materials to sustain the project in our sister city Santa Clara. Feel free to make donations. Dates are now set! November 5-12, 2025 Contact [email protected] with Cubamistad in the subject bar.

November 8-10 Madison, Indiana Mini Summit is the virtual component of the retreat to which Cubamistad members and allies are encouraged to join. All times are EST. 10:30 am: Kathryn Hall-Trujillo. MPH, Ashoka Fellow. Founder Birthing Project USA. Ambassador, (FIGHR) Federation of International Gender & Human Rights. This session will be a view from Mama Kat’s many years of experience on the ground in Cuba as a US citizen working closely with ELAM -Latin American Medical School and as a co-educator Cuba’s National School of Public Health.  She also works closely with the pilot pad project (aka *Period Project) in Havana which