Venceremos Brigade
My relatives, my friends – being in Cuba changed me. I saw dignity, resilience, and a people determined to control their own destiny. From Hatuey’s resistance in 1512 to the Cuban Revolution today, the Caribbean spirit of resistance lives on. This is my reflection on what Cuba taught me about sovereignty and the responsibility we carry.
The Venceremos Brigade, the oldest continuous U.S.-Cuba solidarity project, forcefully condemns President Donald Trump’s remarks at yesterday’s “Shield of the Americas Summit” in which he declared Cuba to be “in its last moments of life” and boasted that a deal to overthrow the Revolution would be “an easy one.” Speaking from his Doral, Florida golf […]
The Venceremos Brigade has carried the message of Cuban solidarity for 56 years. In this moment of heightened aggression, we will not be silent. We will continue to travel, to build bridges, to deliver material aid, and to organize. We remind the U.S. government: you will not tell us who our friends are and you cannot blockade solidarity.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]