{"id":2850,"date":"2025-11-23T19:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:32:30","slug":"we-love-cuba-lift-the-blockade-on-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/we-love-cuba-lift-the-blockade-on-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"WE \u2764\ufe0f CUBA \u2013 Lift the blockade on Cuba!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2851\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/we-love-cuba-lift-the-blockade-on-cuba\/251127-cuban-guests-poster-11-x-17-in\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1656,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-194x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-663x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2851\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-663x1024.jpg 663w, http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-768x1187.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-994x1536.jpg 994w, http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-1325x2048.jpg 1325w, http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-scaled.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WE \u2764\ufe0f CUBA   <br>LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA!  <br>A FREE PUBLIC EVENT   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPEAKERS, LIVE MUSIC &amp; DISCUSSION    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday Nov 27, 2025   <br>6:30\u20139:00pm   <br>Creekside Community Centre (Olympic Village)   <br>1 Athletes Way, Vancouver<\/strong>    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for a conversation on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Confronting Trump\u2019s attacks on Cuba<\/li><li>Understanding Cuba\u2019s Medical internationalism<\/li><li>Campaigning to end the U.S. blockade on Cuba<\/li><li>Traveling to Cuba<\/li><li>Donating to the Canada-wide Hurricane Relief Campaign after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>3 DISTINGUISHED CUBAN GUESTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Alex Carreras Pons<\/strong><br>Department of International Relations for Bilateral Cooperation in the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leima Mart\u00ednez Freire<\/strong><br>Director of the North America Desk of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reynier del Calvo Mato<\/strong><br>First secretary in charge of press, culture, solidarity, and academic, scientific and sport exchanges for the Cuban Embassy in Ottawa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-hosted by: Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba &amp; Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade &#8211; Vancouver<br>MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN NETWORK ON CUBA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vancubasolidarity@gmail.com<br>+1-778-882-5223<br>VANCUBAVSBLOCKADE.ORG | VANCUBASOLIDARITY.ORG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE \u2764\ufe0f CUBA LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA! A FREE PUBLIC EVENT SPEAKERS, LIVE MUSIC &amp; DISCUSSION Thursday Nov 27, 2025 6:30\u20139:00pm Creekside Community Centre (Olympic Village) 1 Athletes Way, Vancouver Join us for a conversation on: Confronting Trump\u2019s attacks on CubaUnderstanding Cuba\u2019s Medical internationalismCampaigning to end the U.S. blockade on CubaTraveling to CubaDonating to the Canada-wide Hurricane Relief Campaign after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa 3 DISTINGUISHED CUBAN GUESTS Dr. Alex Carreras PonsDepartment of International Relations for Bilateral Cooperation in the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba Leima Mart\u00ednez FreireDirector of the North America Desk of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Reynier del Calvo MatoFirst secretary in charge of press, culture, solidarity, and academic, scientific and sport exchanges for the Cuban Embassy in Ottawa Co-hosted by: Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba &amp; Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade &#8211; VancouverMEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN NETWORK ON CUBA vancubasolidarity@gmail.com+1-778-882-5223VANCUBAVSBLOCKADE.ORG | VANCUBASOLIDARITY.ORG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251127-Cuban-Guests-Poster-11-x-17-in-scaled.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dbkE-JY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}