Cuban residents in Italy will hold their first virtual national meeting on Saturday, May 15, in Rome, to demand an end of the United States blockade against their country, the organizers said.

The Financial Times called the Biden administration to ease sanctions on Cuba. In an editorial, the London-based international newspaper stressed that “the failures of the six-decades-old US embargo on Cuba to achieve political change are obvious.”

Representatives of 18 European organizations, solidarity associations and unions reaffirmed today the demand for the end of the blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba for six decades.

Medical and scientific authorities in Uruguay confirmed on Thursday that the viral strain causing Covid-19, known as P1, is circulating throughout the country and has attacked younger age groups.