Find the recap on Youtube:

Take Action to Urge the Administration and Congress to Lift Sanctions! https://www.votervoice.net/PCUSA/Campaigns/73235/Respond

Thanks to the Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Public Witness for creating this alert.

Resources to learn more:

Excerpt from the 2001 OXFAM report Going Against the Grain about the effects of the Special Period on food supply and agriculture

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxfam-us/static/oa4/OA-CubaGoingAgainstGrain_FoodCrisis.pdf

Read the entire Oxfam report here

•  https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/cuba-going-against-the-grain/

Torricelli Act – (H.R.5323 – Cuban Democracy Act of 1992)

• https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/5323

Helms Burton Act – (Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996)

• https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/documents/libertad.pdf

Summary of changes to U.S. Policy during the Obama Administration created by the Latin American Working Group

• https://www.lawg.org/wp-content/uploads/storage/documents/summary%20of%20changes%20under%20obama%20-%20cuba.pdf

2019 Cuba Advocacy Toolkit created by the Latin American Working Group has an excellent timeline from 2014 – 2019 showing the improvements to relations and the Trump rollback. Additional negative policy changes continue to occur.

• https://www.lawg.org/cubatoolkit2019/

Links to the next two webinars:

1. July 30 – US-Cuba Relations, Cooperatives, and Community: https://crln.org/uscubarelationscooperativescommunity/
2. August 6– Healthcare System: Clients or Patients?: https://crln.org/healthcaresystemclientsorpatients/

For additional resources contact Marilyn McKenna at mmckenna@crln.org or Daisy Hernandez at dhernandez@crln.org