We’re excited to invite you to visit IFCO’s new and improved website at ifconews.org
At the top of our site, you’ll find a video featuring IFCO’s former Executive Director, Gail Walker, and myself, the new Executive Director, Claudia de la Cruz. We share IFCO’s history, mission, and vision for the future.
Check it out below!
| For 57 years, IFCO’s work has been central to building bridges of solidarity in the US and internationally. We are living through difficult times marked by the expansion of war, climate catastrophe, economic and political crisis, the exploitation of workers and the continued oppression of marginalized communities. There are many challenges ahead, but this is also a time of immense opportunity to organize and mobilize communities. IFCO will continue to support the people on the front lines of struggle, and we will need you to be part of our work. Explore our site and join us as we move into the future! |
| In a move meant to further paralyze the Cuban economy and crush its people, the Trump administration has enacted a sudden suspension of remittances, ending the ability of Cubans working abroad to send money to their families back home. Western Union has already announced the indefinite pause to money being sent to the island. Orbit S.A., the company processing the remittances, has been put on the Cuba Restricted List by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Remittances, or remesas in Spanish, play a significant economic role in Cuba, making up between 10-20% of its GDP. This suspension directly impacts the lives of countless Cubans. Without the money transfers from their family members working abroad in the U.S., many will struggle with the cost of food, housing and medicine. In the middle of an economic blockade and tightening sanctions, remittances are a lifeline. Cuba has been facing one of its worst economic crises in decades, with shortages of essential goods, including fuel, and rising inflation. This isn’t the first time remittances have been suspended – the last time was in 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic. The suspension now is yet another devastating blow to the ongoing crisis, with the criminal, decades-long U.S. economic blockade in the backdrop. The Ministry of Exterior Relations of Cuba stressed that these restrictions directly impact the population and could encourage an increase in migration to the United States. We stand with the Cuban people and reaffirm our solidarity during this economic crisis! We demand: allow remittances and end the blockade! |
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