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¡Venceremos!: VB’s first Queer & Trans Brigade to Cuba 

by Saiyare Refaei of Just Seeds “We go to Cuba to be changed.” – Dr. Molly Benitez, returning Brigadista  In the entrance hall of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Saiyare reads from a little brown field book wearing a green dress:  Hi everyone, my name is Saiyare. My pronouns are they/she and […]

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Cuba Is Not A State Sponsor of Terrorism!

On the evening of Monday January 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order which revoked all executive orders issued by the Biden administration. Among the revoked orders was Biden’s eleventh hour removal of Cuba from the US State Department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. We recognize this action by the […]

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Venceremos Brigade Statement on Cuban Embassy Attack

It has been a week since the September 24th terrorist attack on the Cuban embassy. This recent act of violence, which involved two molotov cocktails being hurled at the building, was the second in the last three years – the last involving an individual shooting thirty automatic rifle rounds at the embassy in 2020. The […]