Sanctions

People Against Sanctions and Siege (PASS)

October 1, 2026 UNAC Editor Action!!, Cuba, Iran, Protest, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela, Yemen

Walking the Tightrope and Threading the Needle: Strategic Adaptation Under Siege

July 1, 2026 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, Socio-Economic Struggles

Walking the Tightrope and Threading the Needle: Cuba’s Strategic Adaptation Under Siege: Cuba’s Economic Reforms and Defense of Socialist Sovereignty by Isaac Saney, published on Black Agenda Report, June 24, 2026 The announcement of Cuba’s new package of economic transformations has generated intense debate both within Cuba and among supporters of the Revolution internationally. Some have expressed concern that aspects[…]

U.S. Sends War Force Under Cover of Venezuela Earthquake Relief

June 30, 2026 UNAC Editor Humanitarian Aid, Natural Disaster, Occupation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Gary Wilson, published on The Struggle/La Lucha, June 27, 2026 Twin earthquakes tore through Venezuela’s northern coast the night of June 24, 2026, killing at least 920 people and injuring at least 3,360, according to figures released by Venezuelan officials June 26. More than 50,000 people were reported missing, though the number was expected to fall as duplicate filings[…]

Democratic Party’s Corollary To Trump’s Foreign Policy: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua

June 23, 2026 UNAC Editor Cuba, Democrats and Republicans, Nicaragua, US Politics, Venezuela

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Popular Resistance, June 17, 2026 Donald Trump’s second term has precipitated a tsunami of criticism from Democrats over his foreign policy. Yet when it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute – if there is any substance remaining, once stripped of partisan bickering –[…]

Díaz-Canel: “Trump Seeks to Suffocate Cuba So That There Will Be a Social Explosion and He Will Have a Pretext to Intervene”

June 16, 2026 UNAC Editor Cuba, Interview, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Public Health, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Hegemony

from elDiario, published on Socialist Action, June 5, 2026 Translation by Walter Lippman Miguel Díaz-Canel [Photo above] is the president of Cuba. He leads a country of just under ten million inhabitants, located 90 miles from Florida. Since the 1959 Revolution, Cuba has been a target of every US administration. But now the situation is particularly extreme and tense, to[…]

Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.

May 22, 2026 UNAC Editor Economic Collapse, Humanitarian Aid, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by an Anonymous Cuban Surgeon, published on Counterpunch, May 21, 2026 I am a surgeon in Havana, Cuba. I will not use my name — not because I fear my government, but because I fear yours and what it can do to those I love. Last month, I operated on an elderly man with a perforated peptic ulcer. The surgery[…]

Socialist Action’s May Day Statement on Defeating U.S. Imperialism’s Wars

April 18, 2026 UNAC Editor Iran, Israel, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela, War and Peace, War Crimes

by Socialist Action, published on Socialist Action, April 12, 2026 U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine! The world’s people in the main declared US President Donald Trump a war criminal when he announced on April 7, 2026 that, “The whole [Iranian] civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it[…]

Judge Questions Denying Maduros Defense Due to Sanctions on Venezuela

March 30, 2026 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Monroe Doctrine, Political Prisoners, Venezuela

by Marjorie Cohn, published on Popular Resistance, March 28, 2026 (originally from Truthout) U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on March 26, even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is blocking funds for their legal defense, in violation of the Sixth[…]

The United States’ War Against Venezuela began in 2001

January 8, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Democracy, Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Monroe Doctrine, Neocolonial Economic Dominance

by Vijay Prashad, published on Socialist Action, December 31, 1025 The United States had no problem with Venezuela itself, nor with the country or its former oligarchy. The problem the U.S. government and its business class have is with the process initiated by President Hugo Chávez’s first administration. In 2001, Chávez’s Bolivarian process passed a law called the Organic Hydrocarbons Law,[…]

Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse

December 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Economic Collapse, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, International Law, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Social Impact, Venezuela

by Michelle Ellner, published on Common Dreams, December 25 2025 The loudest question in Washington right now is whether Donald Trump is going to invade Venezuela. The quieter, and far more dangerous, reality is this: he probably won’t. Not because he cares about Venezuelan lives, but because he has found a strategy that is cheaper, less politically risky at home,[…]