Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Washington Targets Achievements Of Cuba, Nicaragua, And Venezuela

by John Perry and Roger D. Harris, published on Popular Resistance, June 12, 2025 Punishing Progress. “We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission), run jointly[…]

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The US Blockade on Cuba

by Adam Kendall, published on Resumen English, May 28, 2025 For many Canadians, the US blockade on Cuba is thought to be a relic of the Cold War, either a product of the Soviet era or something eased under Obama’s “Cuban thaw.” This misconception allows American imperialism to go unchecked and obscures the enduring reality of one of the longest[…]

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Trump and Rubio Tighten the Noose on Cuba

by Manolo De Los Santos, produced by Globetrotter, June 6, 2025 The impacts of a tightened US blockade, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the return of Trump with a vindictive Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, have deepened the crisis in Cuba, making international solidarity with the island more important than ever. Cuba is once again facing a severe, multi-faceted crisis,[…]

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Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]

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US Remittances to Cuba Suspended; the Hard Side of an Irrational Policy

from Prensa Latina, translated and published by Resumen English, February 10, 2025 Economic brutality against Cuba.  It is incomprehensible except in so far as some will destroy whatever they cannot own.   [jb[ A Western Union statement, cited in digital media, has revealed that, “due to a change in U.S. sanctions regulations,” the financial services company is forced to indefinitely suspend[…]

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Cubans End 2024 with Massive March Against US Blockade

by W.T. Whitney, published on Labor Today International, January 7, 2025 Cubans numbering in the hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida Straits. President Miguel Díaz Canel and former President Raul Castro took the lead in a massive protest against stepped-up US efforts to immiserate Cubans and bring down their socialist government.[…]

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Cuba’s Economic Crisis: US Sanctions and the Problem of ‘Overcompliance’


by Joy Gordon, published on LaMonde Diplomatique, October 7, 2024 Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US imposed severe new economic measures against the island nation. In the[…]

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Cuba: Blackout And Blockade

By La Jornada editorial on October 21, 2024 Cuba is going through its greatest energy crisis, with practically the entire island and 10 out of 11 million inhabitants deprived of electricity. The blackouts that have been occurring with increasing frequency and duration for some time now, turned into a total collapse of the electrical system as a result of the[…]

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