Embajada de Cuba en Reino Unido

07/09/2026

07/09/2026

🎬🇨🇺 ¡EL CINE CUBANO BRILLA EN LONDRES! 🇨🇺🎬

Del 2 al 6 de octubre de 2026, Londres acogerá la primera edición del London Latino Film Festival (LoLaFF), un nuevo espacio dedicado a celebrar la fuerza, la diversidad y la riqueza del cine latinoamericano. Y Cuba tendrá una presencia verdaderamente excepcional. 🌴✨

🎨 Una imagen con sello cubano
Es un orgullo que la imagen oficial y el logotipo de esta primera edición hayan sido creados por el reconocido diseñador gráfico e ilustrador cubano Nelson Ponce. Célebre por su icónico cartel de Vampiros en La Habana, Ponce forma parte de la extraordinaria tradición cubana del diseño y el cartel cinematográfico, llevando ese legado a esta nueva celebración del cine latinoamericano en el Reino Unido.

🎬 Invitados de lujo
El festival contará con la presencia del gran actor cubano Jorge Perugorría, protagonista de Fresa y Chocolate, para una presentación especial de esta película fundamental del cine cubano, dirigida por Tomás Gutiérrez Alea y Juan Carlos Tabío. También estará presente el extraordinario bailarín y coreógrafo cubano Carlos Acosta para una presentación especial de Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story, dirigida por Icíar Bollaín, que narra su extraordinario recorrido desde La Habana hasta los escenarios más prestigiosos del ballet internacional.

🎞️ Una presencia cubana que recorre generaciones
La programación ofrece además una oportunidad excepcional para descubrir o reencontrarse con algunas de las grandes obras de nuestra cinematografía, entre ellas Memorias del subdesarrollo y De cierta manera, junto a producciones contemporáneas sobre Cuba como Baracoa, Life is Dance, ¡Quba! y Ana y la Distancia.

Una presencia que conecta la memoria, la identidad, la diversidad y la creación contemporánea de Cuba, mostrando al público británico la riqueza de nuestra cinematografía y el extraordinario talento de nuestros artistas.

🇨🇺🎬 Cuba en el cine. Cuba en Londres. Cuba contando sus propias historias.

¡Nos vemos en el cine! 🍿🎟️

04/09/2026

03/09/2026

A Belfast sandwich shop has been paid by Deliveroo after posting on their social media that American policy towards "anyone or thing associated with Cuba," was the cause of delayed payments over the past two months.

02/09/2026

🇨🇺 “I have lived my whole life under the US blockade.”

In a wide-ranging new interview with Cuba Analysis Podcast, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reflects on nearly six decades of the US blockade and its intensification in 2026.

Speaking not only as Foreign Minister but as a Cuban citizen, he describes the reality of growing up under a policy that has affected successive generations:

«“My son, who is already 26 years old, was born under blockade conditions too. That's several generations now.”»

The interview addresses the severe humanitarian and economic consequences of the current measures, including the impact of restrictions on fuel, maritime transport, food, medicines and Cuba's public health system.

The Minister also speaks about the increasingly serious rhetoric surrounding Cuba and stresses:

«“Cuba is not, and cannot be, a threat to US national security or its economy. Cuba is not an enemy, and has no wish to be one.”»

Yet the central message is one of dialogue rather than confrontation.

Cuba, he reiterates, remains prepared to engage with the United States on the basis of sovereign equality, mutual respect, reciprocity, non-interference and without preconditions.

And despite decades of confrontation, he remains convinced that the future can be different:

«“In the end, a civilised, productive and respectful relationship between our two peoples will prevail.”»

🎙️ Watch the full interview:
"Cuba Analysis Podcast – Interview with Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla": https://youtu.be/LqlQhqvNnqM

02/09/2026

02/09/2026

02/09/2026

Born in Cuba. Bread in Belfast. Blocked by Washington. 🥪

🇨🇺 Juan Carlos Arguelles opened the Cuban Sandwich Factory in Belfast in 2012, pressing the same Cuban recipes his family taught him. This week he had to switch off the Deliveroo app that keeps half his kitchen staff in work.

Not because business dropped. Because an American bank keeps blocking the money Deliveroo owes him, and he believes he knows exactly why.

"There seems to be an automatic trigger as soon as the word 'Cuba' appears," he told the Irish Times.

Carlos has lived in Northern Ireland since 1998, when he moved from Cuba to marry a woman from Co Antrim. This is not even the first time. During Trump's first term, he already had to prove his UK residency to Deliveroo just to keep getting paid. Now, under a second Trump administration tightening the blockade further, the same block is back, and this time it has not stopped.

➡️ Regular payments stopped in mid June; since then, sporadic at best
➡️ Over £7,000 now owed, and rising with every order that still goes out
➡️ Deliveroo normally makes up 20 to 30 per cent of his orders; around half his staff's hours depend on it
➡️ He has already proven his UK residency once before, and told Deliveroo plainly he has nothing to do with the Cuban government
➡️ None of it matters. The block, he says, is triggered by one word on a bank transaction: Cuba

⚖️ This did not come from nowhere. In January, Washington declared a national emergency and imposed a fresh oil blockade on Cuba. In May, a second executive order widened the sanctions again, adding secondary measures aimed squarely at non American banks and companies that do any business at all with Cuba. An American bank processing payments for a Belfast delivery app is exactly the kind of transaction that order was built to punish, wherever in the world it happens.

🌍 Solidarity campaigners in Ireland have pointed to something wider still: Irish banks routinely rely on the US based Citigroup as a correspondent bank, meaning transactions can be filtered for American compliance long before they ever reach an Irish account. If that is right, a sandwich shop in Belfast is only the visible edge of a much larger problem.

Deliveroo, for its part, has said nothing on the record.

✊ Carlos is still trading, just by phone now, straight to the shop for collection. Since he posted the news, support has poured in from across Belfast and beyond, amplified by groups like the Cuba Support Group Ireland.

Born in Cuba. Bread in Belfast. Blocked by Washington. 🇨🇺❤️