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Tag: U.S. Blockade

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

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[…]

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Stop All Illegal Threats Against Cuba!

Abuses of Empire, Cuba, Featured, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Statement by U. S. Peace Council, May 20, 2026 The U.S. Peace Council sharply condemns the Trump administration for repeatedly threatening to militarily invade Cuba, bomb and destroy schools and hospitals — as the U.S. did to Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Iran and many other states that assert their sovereignty and defy U.S. imperialist diktats, and overthrow Cuba’s socialist state —[…]

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The Imperial Order to Kill the Cuban People Without Bullets

Cuba, Economic Collapse, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression

by Norland Rosendo Ganzález. published on Resumen, May 8, 2026 The United States government has reinforced its lines of fire against the Cuban people, even without firing a shot, following the signing of the May 1st executive order that intensifies the collective punishment. On the same day that more than five million people took to the streets across the island[…]

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A Weak Left Stands By as Russia Stands Up for Cuban Sovereignty

Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, Paths to Emancipation, Resistance, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Intervention

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 1, 2026 Russia finally makes good on promises to help Cuba, but its level of commitment is unclear. The left are clearly immobilized, even as Iran demonstrates how to fight back. Donald Trump recently bragged that he was “on a roll” after kidnapping President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and beginning the[…]

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Cuban President Díaz-Canel on Cuba’s Response to ‘Maximum Pressure’

Cuba, Diplomacy, Economic Blockade

by Charles McKelvey, published on Workers World, February 16, 2026 Cuba News published an article by reporter Charles McKelvey, from which Workers World links to this report on a two-hour interview with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who spoke at a special press conference on Feb. 5, 2026. The Cuban president addressed the current crisis in the Caribbean.. In a special[…]

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Trump and Rubio Tighten the Noose on Cuba

Censorship and Propaganda, Cuba, Global South, Imperial Wars, Paths to Emancipation, Poverty and Sanctions, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

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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Cubans End 2024 with Massive March Against US Blockade

Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

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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