Cuba Caravan
The Cuba Caravan is passing through Oakland again
on its way to Cuba!
Monday, July 15, 2012 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Asian Resource Center, Conference Room 101
310 8th Street, Oakland, CA
(alternate entrance at 317 9th Street
BEFORE 6 P.M. ONLY)
Food!
Food and beverages: empanadas (veg and meat), ...
Music!
Cuban drumming by Carolyn Brandy (and friends),
who has been immersed in Cuban drumming and Santería,
the Yoruba-based Cuban religion, since the mid-70s (initiated as a priest in 2000) and
who, with the group Ojalá,
will have just returned from her seventh tour to Cuba.
Videos!
To be announced.
Speakers!
To be announced.
Questions? info@cuba726.org
Challenging the U.S. blockade of Cuba by delivering
over 100 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba each year.
A map showing one of the Far West Coast routes of the 23nd Caravan,
one of nine routes the
Caravan buses took through the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and on to Cuba in 2012.
To see a caravanista's blog from 2012: 2012 blog
To see a caravanista's blog from 2011: 2011 blog
To see a caravanista's blog from 2010: 2010 blog
For more information about the Caravan, IFCO and Pastors for Peace:
www.ifconews.org/CubaCaravan
Timeline of the US Blockade of Cuba
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For information on the cost to Cuba of the blockade, see
www.cubavsbloqueo.cu
For more general information on the history of the U.S. and Latin America, see
Resource Center for the History of the American States.
1960 Reduction of import quota of Cuban sugar
After Cuban revolutionary forces overthrow brutal, US-supported dictatorship and
seize properties, US reduces the import quota on Cuban sugar.
Cuba turns to the Soviet Union for a market.
Cuba offers to reimburse the owners of the seized property, but that offer is rejected.
1963 Embargo broadened
Embargo broadened by Executive Order in response
to Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union.
Travel restrictions imposed after Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cuban Assets Control Regulations issued under the Trading with the Enemy Act freeze
Cuban assets in the US.
1977 Travel restrictions lifted
Restrictions on US citizens traveling to Cuba and regulations
on spending US dollars there lifted.
1982 Travel restrictions reinstated
1992 Torricelli Act
Forbids U.S. companies, including subsidiaries abroad, from trading with Cuba.
Foreign ships using Cuban ports not allowed in U.S. ports for 180 days following.
Forbids Cubans living in the US from sending cash to Cuba.
1996 Helms-Burton Act
If a non-US company trades with Cuba, legal action can be taken, sanctions imposed, and
that company's leadership can be barred from entry into the United States.
Executives from Italy, Mexico, Canada, Israel, and the UK have been barred.
The Helms-Burton Act condemned by the Council of Europe, the European Union, Britain,
Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and other US allies as
counter to the spirit of international law and sovereignty.
Complaint filed by the European Union with the WTO.
Also condemned by humanitarian groups.
European Union introduces Council Regulation
declaring the extraterritorial provisions of the Helms-Burton Act to be
unenforceable within the EU.
UK imposes criminal sanctions for complying with certain provisions of the
Act while in the UK.
Mexico passes law imposing fine on anyone who while in Mexican territory
obeys another country's laws aimed at reducing Mexican trade or foreign
investment in a third country.
2004 Cuban Assets Control Regulations
Travel of US Citizens to Cuba not specifically prohibited,
but illegal for them to spend money or receive gifts in Cuba
without a license from US government Office of Foreign Assets Control.
2010 Cuban-Americans allowed to travel to Cuba and send money
But all other provisions of the blockade and travel ban on individuals remain in force.
2011 Licenses to travel once again granted to more
educational, cultural and professional organizations
But all other provisions of the blockade and travel ban on individuals remain in force.