Voices from Cuba: Public meeting, October 31
Join us at Auckland Trades Hall on October 31st to hear from the Cuban ambassador and Global Health Partners about the current situation in Cuba, and how you can help.
More than 1,000 academics denounce U.S. measures against Cuba
More than 1,000 academics have denounced the United States’ unilateral aggression against Cuba. The international academic network represents over 800 research institutions across 56 countries. While Western news coverage of the letter is scant, prominent scholars have publicly verified their participation. More information here: https://extremearturo.substack.com/p/more-than-1000-academics-denounce
Support Cuba’s fight to reduce infant mortality
The Auckland Cuba Friendship Society is supporting an international campaign by Global Health Partners, working with Cuba’s Ministry of Health to combat a sharp rise in infant mortality. Cuba’s infant mortality rate has more than doubled since 2018, one of the cruelest impacts of the economic crisis intensified by Washington’s blockade. The campaign, Neonatal and …
The Emerging Multipolar World Order: Implications For Cuba
This article is reprinted from the latest issue of Peace Researcher, No 71, August 2026. The whole issue is available as a PDF (see link below). It always has fantastic anti-imperialist research, like the article reprinted here with their kind permission. https://www.converge.org.nz/abc/peace-researcher-home.html By David Small As the United States tightened its stranglehold on Cuba with …
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Media Release: BRICS nations’ statement of solidarity with Cuba
The Aotearoa New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society welcomes the BRICS New Delhi Declaration which expresses deep concern over the tightening of unilateral blockade measures against Cuba and calls for their end in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/80/4, which 165 member countries supported. It is noteworthy that the Cuban situation received a dedicated paragraph …
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Proven: US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles.
By Eugene Doyle, Solidarity.co.nz US unilateral sanctions, the kind being imposed on Cuba today, are deadlier for children than war according to a major piece of research published in The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal. Totally ignored by the mainstream media, the report has bombshell findings that should call into question the use of …
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NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet
COMMENTARY: By Liz Remmerswaal Up to 1000 people joined a March for Peace in Auckland last weekend to demand that Aotearoa New Zealand become a voice for peace rather than a complicit partner in US-led illegal wars. To Read More
End the genocidal siege on Cuba! June 10, 2026
10 Jun New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society Media release The New Zealand Cuba Friendship society condemns the United States’ latest slew of sanctions on Cuba’s sovereign leadership as well as family members of Cuba’s former leaders. These sanctions come just weeks after USA’s extrajudicial indictment of Raul Castro, Cuban revolutionary and former president of Cuba …
Open Letter: For peace and sovereignty in Cuba and the world, March 2, 2026
We the undersigned, express our grave concern at the escalating threat to peace and international law following recent US military action against Venezuela and at open threats made by the Trump administration against other sovereign nations, including Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, and Iran. In this dangerous context, Cuba once again faces a heightened menace to its …
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Understanding Cuba’s health system benefits New Zealand
In the last few months of my employment as Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists in 2019, I was asked by many members what I would be doing once I finished work. My response was that while I wasn’t sure, I would be having a long break in and around the Caribbean, …
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Cuba’s unending embargo
Cuba has been under US trade sanctions since 1962 and the past few months have further challenged the Caribbean nation, with tightened economic blockades by America. University of Canterbury lecturer Josephine Varghese and Ambassador Luis Morejon Rodriguez talk to Kadambari Raghukumar in this Here Now episode. Click here to read more
Cuban Ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law
A conversation with Luis Ernesto Morejn Rodrguez, Cuba’s ambassador to Wellington, New Zealand. This is a moment of great peril for the small Caribbean nation of Cuba. Nothing less than its sovereignty is on the line as the US drives its knee into the neck of 10 million Cubans by means of a crushing air …
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The world owes Cuba a debt – and the USA condemnation
“In 2015 the John Key government announced a cooperation agreement that would see NZ Aid pay for Cuban doctors to be taught English in New Zealand before their deployment to the Pacific Islands as part of the communist island’s Medical Brigades.” Click here to read more