Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, has condemned the international media’s blackout on the country’s progress against the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the fact that the island is the only one in Latin America to have a vaccine candidate, little information about this has been shared: “Ignoring or censoring successes is part of the media blockade,” he tweeted.
On 20 August, just before Cuban television was about to livestream a programme about the start of trials for Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccine, YouTube management disabled a Cuban news channel’s broadcast of the discussion.

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Source: Cuba Solidarity Campaign (UK)