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onawah

13th July 2021, 06:15

Uprising in Cuba
Hannity: Another lie from 'gutless' Joe
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Marco Rubio 'embarrasses' Biden into answering questions on Cuba
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ExomatrixTV

23rd July 2021, 17:16

Cuba's Communist Regime: The Beginning Of The End:

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Gracy

23rd July 2021, 20:02

Mashika

23rd July 2021, 23:51

I wonder how Cuba would fare, if the U.S. were to finally lift its 60 year embargo on those people that we claim to care so much for? That is after all the goal of these things, make the people miserable enough, for long enough, and they will rise up and do the job of overthrowing the country for them.

It never works but we keep on doing it to countries (Iran and Venezuela being two other notables) who have governments that the U.S. government doesn't like. And when conditions deteriorate as expected, they blame that government, call them evil, murderous, terrorists, the list goes on and on.

I'm hearing a lot in right wing circles, as above, that the embargo doesn't even matter, Hannity won't even mention it like it doesn't even exist. So the question is then why have it at all if it's irrelevant?

We can look at other country that was devastated by Us sanctions in the same way as Cuba, but, once the sanctions were removed, it has been recovering, without having to change much their ways of government or ideologies

Vietnam’s GDP expanded 5.64 percent in the first half of the year, marking a jump from 1.82 percent in the same period a year ago

https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/vietnams-economy-fdi-show-steady-growth-but-fourth-wave-a-concern.html/

Mike

24th July 2021, 00:07

Gracy

24th July 2021, 02:42

Well, Cuba can trade with virtually any other country it pleases. And it does. Even US allies. So there's really no excuse for the conditions there.

The US embargo certainly doesn't help matters, but it isn't responsible for them either. Not primarily anyway.

You sure about that Mike? Empire shows no mercy to those who defy it, or refuse to play ball. Here are just two quick examples out of many:

A Ban on Subsidiary Trade-Beginning in 1992, the Cuban Democracy Act imposed a ban on subsidiary trade with Cuba. This ban has severely constrained Cuba’s ability to import medicines and medical supplies from third-country sources. Moreover, recent corporate buyouts and mergers between major U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies have further reduced the number of companies permitted to do business with Cuba.

Shipping-Since 1992, the embargo has prohibited ships from loading or unloading cargo in U.S. ports for 180 days after delivering cargo to Cuba. This provision has strongly discouraged shippers from delivering medical equipment to Cuba. Consequently shipping costs have risen dramatically and further constricted the flow of food, medicines, medical supplies and even gasoline for ambulances. From 1993 to 1996, Cuban companies spent an additional $8.7 million on shipping medical imports from Asia, Europe and South America rather than from the neighboring United States.
https://medicc.org/ns/documents/The_impact_of_the_U.S._Embargo_on_Health_&_Nutrition_in_Cuba.pdf

They're not still driving cars from the 1950's, and constantly scrambling to scrounge up spare parts for decades old X-Ray machines, because of their form of government.

Vietnam for example is full blown Communist, why are they thriving if this is the case... It's a decades old, and still running drumbeat of a foreign policy propaganda machine aided by a complicit U.S. media, that makes this appear to be so.

Mike

24th July 2021, 03:04

Mashika

24th July 2021, 03:35

Well, Cuba can trade with virtually any other country it pleases. And it does. Even US allies. So there's really no excuse for the conditions there.

The US embargo certainly doesn't help matters, but it isn't responsible for them either. Not primarily anyway.

Sure Cuba, you can trade with anyone you want! *IF they want to trade with you of course

On a separate meeting later on "Listen here pals, if anyone of you trades with Cuba, we're going to break your knees, you have been warned"

Later on: "Oh, but no one wants to trade with Cuba, must be because Communism and failed government"

That pretty much explains the strategy to hurt as much as possible, without being the source of the hurting, or problem

Same happens in Iran and Venezuela by the way. Remember the oil tankers that suddenly disappeared on their way from Iran to Venezuela? And then later it was found the US military had confiscated them, and sold the oil! That's just plain robbery

And as said, if the sanctions do nothing, the just lift them and let's see. Most of the world agrees to lift them, then why not just do that? Let them fall on their own, if that's what's going to happen anyway

And Vietnam is starting to do better than some Latin American countries that are full capitalists, without giving up on Communism, so that's definitely not the problem that kept them in misery for so long. The only thing that changed is that the sanctions were removed

ETA: The only reason some trading is allowed is because otherwise it would become obvious who and how the sanctions are killing people, if hundreds of thousands were to start dying all over Cuba. So it's a game of keeping them alive, but suffering as much as possible, so they can rebel and ask for external help. The people are being used in such a way that they go through hell, just so they can claim for it to stop, but no use for dead people, so let them survive a bit

Just give them the chance to prove themselves without any handicaps, if they will go down, then that's what will happen anyway, just let them try, but it's obvious that's not the end goal

Mashika

25th July 2021, 04:49

Russia sends 88 tonnes of aid to Cuba, and Mexico plans to send a few more, including medical aid, like the syringes they desperately need but the US gov has blocked them from buying

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/russia-sends-covid-19-aid-cuba-defence-ministry-2021-07-24/

Meanwhile, some government officials in the US claim to be "very worried" about Cuban, so they apply more sanctions in response to the failed attempt at yet another coup in Cuba, but send basically 0 help in any other way

NEWS: Turns out that the protests were planned and executed from within the US by Rosa Maria Paya, who has been exposed as the person paying desperate people in Cuba to go protest. But as usual, this won't be on your news
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Pay%C3%A1_Acevedo

She created an organization that revolves entirely around hurting Cubans as much as possible, in order to cause upraising. She also built the entire campaign we saw days ago, and then disappeared from view after people in Cuba turned against her and marched in favor of the current Cuban government. Turns out that people once paid, and once learning they won't get paid again, march against the "client", and she was not able to handle it and had to take a step back. That's why very suddenly, protests dried up in Cuba

She is a religious fundamentalist, willing to sacrifice as much people as needed in order to take revenge over the death of her father, which she blames on the Cuban government. She never proved it in any way, but she claims they killed him somehow, even if he died in a car crash. We may never know the truth, but this person is crazy and nothing excuses causing the death/suffering of thousands of innocents just so you can get revenge. As usual, fundamentalists are the perfect tool

Mashika

25th July 2021, 05:26

Gracy

25th July 2021, 13:27

Very ironically, there are current protests in Paris, and people getting arrested after clashes between protesters and the police. I'm still waiting to hear the US government asking for regime change, and sanctioning top level government officials because of cops detaining/repressing protesters. Something must be done against that repressive French government, right? Actually i am not waiting, it will never happen

The only time I've ever seen the U.S. get really upset with France, was when they refused to go along with the invasion of Iraq back in '03. Anyone remember the ridiculous bill passed that changed the name of french fries to freedom fries LOL? And soon they showed how deeply they cared about the Iraqi people, by lovingly bombing the living s**t out of their country, turning it upside down/inside out, and killing hundreds of thousands of them.

Merica cares :)

There are often massive protests at any given time around the world at any given time, including our very own just last summer, and France 2 years ago, but that's different...

The U.S. government only really cares about one big thing so far as foreign policy is concerned, full spectrum world domination. If you're on our side, we'll overlook anything and everything, just look at our good buds the Saudi royals, who still have women's rights activists in jail, publicly behead people for things like adultery, drug use, sorcery etc. - yet we continuously lend them every aid for the ongoing genocide in Yemen, and in spreading their radical Wahabism throughout the world to suit both our needs.

But take your ball and go home as Cuba did in '59, as Iran did in '53, or Venezuela did in '98, and you and your people had best stand the f**k by until you come back around to our way of thinking, and let us continue enriching ourselves at your expense.

This is the standard mantra for countries not in near lockstep: "U.S. good/China Bad - U.S. good/Russia bad - U.S. good/Cuba bad - U.S. good/Venezuela bad - U.S. good/Syria bad - U.S. good/Libya bad - U.S. good/Iraq bad - U.S. good/Iran bad - U.S. good/Afghanistan bad.

Did I miss any?

Most of South America is in our hip pocket now, currently anyway, so they're pretty much good to go.

Unless...

Getting back to Cuba. What would happen if we did ease, or even eliminate the blockade, and they slowly but surely begin to flourish? Well we can never ever take the chance, because that would blow the "Capitalism good/Socialism" bad narrative, clean out of the water.

Mike

26th July 2021, 00:44

It's not that ironic that the US doesn't care what's going on in France. If France were a communist island a mere 500 miles off its shores, it would care alot more. And for obvious reasons. Any American politician would freely admit that.

Capitalist "good" and socialist "bad" isn't a narrative. It's a reality. You cannot, with any kind of intellectual honesty, even begin to compare the 2.

Human history (dating way back, not just a hundred years) has been one long game of Empire. The US didn't invent this game of Empire. And the US didn't invent the game of meddling. But having emerged as a world power quite quickly, it's obliged to play those games to not just maintain it's position in the world, but to survive. If the US were merely seeking world domination, I'd say it was doing a pretty poor job at it. It's policies and behaviors, both legal and not so legal, are every bit as defensive as they are offensive. And they are no more diabolical than those of most other countries who are doing the exact same thing.

You seem to be arguing that we care more about our position in the world than we do humanitarianism. And the answer is, of course we do! Our values and our way of life have to be preserved, firstly, before we can hope to encourage others to adopt them

Of course we swing and miss sometimes! Freedom fries, OUCH. Very embarrassing, yes. The mess in Iraq, also very embarrassing. And of course there are others. We will never be immune from corruption. But you have to consider the picture in its totality.

As far as Cuba is concerned, it's important to consider the history between the 2 nations. Castro came around in the late 50's or early 60's, took over, slaughtering all political dissidents. And then he went around and nationalized all business, including US business, on the island. Just stole our sh!t. So he got off to a bad start with us!:) How willing would you be to help people who just stole all your sh!t?

I don't know who our president was then, but I believe he put some version of the embargo in place. And that's how it began.

Of course the then U.S.S.R. sent missiles to Cuba, resulting in the Cuban missile crisis and all that. And it didn't help when Cuba shot down a couple of our planes in the late 90's..planes that were flying in international waters I believe

They have an inept government. They have a failed socialist system. And they've been ruled by incompetent dictators. The Cuban citizens are prevented from expressing themselves politically, artistically, economically. It's a disaster. Cuba is one big prison. A gulag. You have to escape if you want to leave. It's run by brutal thugs. That's why it's in the state it's in today, mainly.

How much would conditions improve if we lifted the embargo? I don't think too much, because it's so ineptly run and saturated with corruption. It would be like giving a bunch of broke drug addicts several million dollars. They don't need money and supplies as much as they need a total makeover, in my view. If they'd agree to the makeover, it would be my hope that we'd end the embargo.

Mashika

26th July 2021, 02:31

Mashika

26th July 2021, 03:12

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094612

I have three questions, which requires analysis before replying

1. If the Cuban embargo, doesn't exist, as i keep seeing people mentioning all over the place, then why 184 countries in the UN votes in favor of lifting it? Are they dumb? Don't they have capable people that understands how the embargo is affecting people on Cuba? What's going on in the UN then?

2. If 184 countries voted "Yes" and only 2 voted "No", and the embargo remains, then is the UN useless?

3. "A total of 184 countries on Wednesday voted in favour of a resolution to demand the end of the US economic blockade on Cuba, for the 29th year in a row, with the United States and Israel voting against." In an total honest way, what do you think this means? Democracy? or DemoCrazy

Mashika

26th July 2021, 03:47

I don't know why these things have to be pointed out, when the information is freely available, but more importantly, can be independently verified by history books and more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution

Prior to the Communist revolution, Cuba was ruled under the elected government of Fulgencio Batista from 1940-1944. Throughout this time period, Batista's support base consisted mainly of corrupt politicians and military officials. Batista himself was able to heavily profit from the regime before coming into power through inflated government contracts and gambling proceeds.[30] In 1942, the British Foreign Office reported that the U.S. State Department was "very worried" about corruption under President Fulgencio Batista, describing the problem as "endemic" and exceeding "anything which had gone on previously." British diplomats believed that corruption was rooted within Cuba's most powerful institutions, with the highest individuals in government and military being heavily involved in gambling and the drug trade.[33] In terms of civil society, Eduardo Saenz Rovner writes that corruption within the Police and government enabled the expansion of criminal organizations in Cuba.[33] Batista refused U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's offer to send experts to help reform the Cuban Civil Service.

Later in 1952, Batista led a U-S backed military coup against Prío Socarras and ruled until 1965. Under his rule, Batista led a corrupt dictatorship that involved close links with organized crime organizations and the reduction of civil freedoms of Cubans. This period resulted in Bastista engaging in more "sophisticated practices of corruption" at both the administrative and civil society levels.[25] Batista and his administration engaged in profiteering from the lottery as well as illegal gambling.[25] Corruption further flourished in civil society through increasing amounts of police corruption, censorship of the press as well as media, and creating anti-communist campaigns that suppressed opposition with violence, torture and public executions. The former culture of toleration and acceptance towards corruption also dissolved with the dictatorship of Batista. For instance, one citizen wrote that "however corrupt Grau and Prío were, we elected them and therefore allowed them to steal from us. Batista robs us without our permission.”[34] Corruption under Batista further expanded into the economic sector with alliances that he forged with foreign investors and the prevalence of illegal casinos and criminal organizations in the country's capital of Havana.

The will of the people means nothing, once it affects US companies, right? Democracy means nothing as well. Those people did not take anything from the US, it belonged to them in the first place, they were being robbed shamelessly, from all their richness and resources by the corruption of the government imposed by the US government back then. The took they rights and land/resources back, so now they are bad. Corruption was perfectly allowed by the US government as long as American companies got their share. And this as very hard historical facts

Is not a time to selectively remove the true but inconvenient facts from history just to fill a narrative and make it go longer, as unsustainable as it is. *Everybody knows the truth*, as proven by the ridiculous difference in votes on the UN

It is time to accept the facts, and not revised story that conveniently ignores what happened prior and what caused the revolution in the first place. It is time the US government stops being "3 kids stacked on each other under a trench coat"

Mike

26th July 2021, 04:12

You seem to be arguing that we care more about our position in the world than we do humanitarianism. And the answer is, of course we do! Our values and our way of life have to be preserved, firstly, before we can hope to encourage others to adopt them

I don't think i need to quote more than this, , even if could write an entire book about all the other misconceptions, half truths, narratives and selective history rewriting i can see

First: "Our values and our way of life have to be preserved". What about the values of other's, those are not worth anything? To preserver your values, you must destroy others? Then those values are not as valuable as you think, if to preserve them you must kill indiscriminately around the world

Second: "before we can hope to encourage others to adopt them". But nobody asked to be forcefully "converted".... Should be personal choice to follow... And the use of "encourage" is incorrect here, as a hard historical line of facts can prove easily, it should be "before we demand and enforce others to adopt them, one way or another, or else"

You are selectively ignoring hundreds of historical facts about Cuba, specially about the Castro revolution and the true nature of the initial refugees in Miami. It's like the very minimal version used to explain newcomers so they follow the narrative. And that's disappointing, very honestly, because the full historical truth is not hard to reach out there, it's on the web

This thread is just going to keep in circles like it just happened, unless real research and analysis of the facts and evidence is done, going back to the 'official narrative' for arguments is pointless

I don't know if you've been paying attention or not, but the Cuban people are waving American flags:) We don't need to impose or destroy anything. They want what we have. There's a reason they're marching the streets. And it's not because they're happy with their government.

If you want to talk Cuban history lets do it! Enlighten us. But there's nothing in that article you linked that says the US is preventing supplies from reaching Cuba

And who's saying the embargo doesn't exist?

Mashika

29th July 2021, 07:36

When the US government, designed the embargo against Cuba, they did not consider one thing... :)

They basically said:

Any ship that carries goods or makes business with Cuba, can't continue to make business with the US, or dock on the US ports, therefore putting the entire world on lock down and enforcing the embargo with Cuba, but still being able to say "anyone is free to do business with them, IF they want to"

However, they forgot, in their tremendous arrogance, one simple thing.. Military ships, don't dock or do business with the US...

So Mexico and Russia sent military ships with all the help they could send on a single trip, basically breaking through the embargo. :P LMFAO!

*Think fast, think smart*

What will the US do if China sends more help? The US government is basically shooting themselves in the foot right now, and they don't get it

Let's see if the US is going to apply sanctions to Mexico now :)

And again, i must make a note:

NOTE: The government, and the people, are NOT the same thing, in any country on earth. And very rarely their interests are the same. What the US gov is doing, has *nothing* to do with the will of the US people, as far as Cuba goes. Except for a certain group in Miami, which is corrupted to the very core of their souls

Mashika

29th July 2021, 08:10

Mashika

26th November 2021, 21:06

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Ravenlocke

23rd August 2022, 18:37

Putting this here, the only thread I could find about Cuba but it’s a small positive news.

https://twitter.com/TheIntlMagz/status/1562092895343357953
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Ravenlocke

21st December 2022, 22:43

https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/03/un-vote-blockade-cuba-us-israel/

Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba – US and Israel are rogue states at UN

2022-11-03

For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations to oppose the six-decade US blockade of Cuba.

On November 3, the UN General Assembly voted an overwhelming 185 to two to condemn Washington’s suffocating embargo

The only countries that supported the illegal blockade were the United States itself and the Israeli apartheid regime.

Just two nations abstained: Brazil’s far-right Jair Bolsonaro administration, and the NATO client regime in Ukraine.

Moreover, the real number of member states that would have voted against the blockade is 186. However, Venezuela was unable to do so because its UN voting rights were temporarily suspended, due to Venezuela’s inability to pay member fees to the United Nations, ironically because of the illegal US blockade and sanctions against it.

There are 193 members states of the United Nations. This means that 96% of the countries on Earth voted to condemn the US blockade of Cuba.

In June 2021, the vote was almost exactly the same. The only difference was that Colombia’s previous right-wing government had abstained, whereas its new left-wing President Gustavo Petro opposes the blockade.

Explicitly stated goal of US blockade: ‘to weaken the economic life of Cuba’ and ‘bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government’

The US embargo was officially declared in 1962, but in reality Washington began imposing illegal unilateral sanctions almost immediately after the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

Why has the United States waged such relentless economic war on Cuba for so many decades? An internal State Department memo from 1960 clearly explains Washington’s imperial intentions.

In the document, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lester D. Mallory admitted that the “majority of Cubans support [Fidel] Castro” and there “is no effective political opposition.”

“The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship,” he concluded.

The top State Department official insisted that “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba.”

Washington’s goal, Mallory wrote, was to make “the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”

On October 28, there was a similar UN General Assembly vote in which the United States and apartheid Israel once again showed themselves to be rogue states on the international stage. An overwhelming 152 member states voted against just five to tell Israel to give up its illegal nuclear weapons and abide by the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

UN commission: US blockade has starved Cuba of $144.4 billion and is ‘the most severe and prolonged system of unilateral coercive measures ever applied against any country’

In the 2022 General Assembly resolution, the UN Development Program (UNDP) stated clearly that the US “embargo limited the acquisition of medicines and medical equipment and supplies, it affects the external economic relations of Cuba, and its impact can be observed in all spheres of the country’s social and economic activities.”

“The embargo has an impact on the population’s most vulnerable groups and on human development in general,” the UNDP wrote, adding that it “affects opportunities for national and local development and creates economic hardship for the population.”

The UN body cited official estimates that the illegal US blockade caused Cuba’s economy to lose $144.4 billion from the early 1960s to 2020.

In the resolution, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) added that the US blockade also affect third countries and companies, not just Cuba, writing, “The embargo imposes strict limitations on the Caribbean nation, with extraterritorial effects that hinder its relations with third countries and affect the well-being of the Cuban population.”

The UN commission noted that the Donald Trump administration imposed an additional 240 unilateral sanctions on Cuba, and that the Joe Biden administration has renewed the criminal economic measures.

“The numerous United States sanctions produce real harm that obstructs the access of Cuban citizens to basic goods and violates their rights,” the UN ECLAC wrote. “These policies are an obstacle to economic, social and environmental development.”

“In short, the numerous United States sanctions constitute the most severe and prolonged system of unilateral coercive measures ever applied against any country and continue to hinder the development of the potential of the Cuban economy,” the UN commission concluded.

United Nations bodies condemn the illegal US blockade for harming Cubans

The UN resolution A/76/405, officially titled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba,” was voted on at the 77th session of the 28th plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

The document received more than 170 pages of responses from dozens of member states and UN bodies explaining why Washington must end its illegal blockade.

Numerous international organizations explained how the US embargo greatly harms the Cuban population as a whole.

The UN Development Program wrote:

In pandemic conditions, the embargo remains in place, and its negative impact has been more specific and significantly larger than in previous years, particularly on commerce and financial activities.

The embargo limited the acquisition of medicines and medical equipment and supplies, it affects the external economic relations of Cuba, and its impact can be observed in all spheres of the country’s social and economic activities.

The embargo also maintains the restrictions on the use of the United States dollar and on imports from Cuba. It affects opportunities for national and local development and creates economic hardship for the population.

The embargo has an impact on the population’s most vulnerable groups and on human development in general.

According to official estimates, the cumulative direct and indirect losses for the Cuban economy owing to the embargo from the early 1960s until March 2020 amount to $144.4 billion at current prices.

The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean wrote:

During the Administration of President Donald Trump, over 240 coercive measures were activated against Cuba in the framework of the United States embargo against the island, and these still remain in force.

In fact, on 7 September 2021, the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, extended the law regulating the embargo against Cuba under the so-called Trading with the Enemy Act, until 14 September 2022.

In a memorandum addressed to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, the President ordered the extension of the sanctions that heavily limit trade with Cuba under these rules. Former President Trump had renewed these in September 2020.

The embargo imposes strict limitations on the Caribbean nation, with extraterritorial effects that hinder its relations with third countries and affect the well-being of the Cuban population. These restrictions deepen the multiple challenges imposed on the island by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and multiply its adverse socioeconomic, health and financial effects. On several occasions, they have hindered the arrival of humanitarian aid in Cuba.

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The numerous United States sanctions produce real harm that obstructs the access of Cuban citizens to basic goods and violates their rights. These policies are an obstacle to economic, social and environmental development.

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In short, the numerous United States sanctions constitute the most severe and prolonged system of unilateral coercive measures ever applied against any country and continue to hinder the development of the potential of the Cuban economy.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) wrote:

The embargo has intensified in recent years and has significantly constrained development possibilities in Cuba, greatly impacting the living conditions of the Cuban people. Among the effects, just to name a few:

• Restrictions on the transfer of remittances still imply a higher indirect tax burden on salaries legitimately earned abroad and sent for household spending on basic human needs such as food, clothing, education, housing, water and sanitation.

• Limitations on commerce and financial transactions still represent a serious bottleneck and an additional cost for business development and job creation, especially in sectors like agriculture and tourism, as decent work largely depends on productive investment and access to financing.

• Limited access to technology transfer implies further difficulties for enterprises, as well as for social and economic development.

The implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act intensifies the embargo by affecting business and investment opportunities in Cuba for third-country investors; the creation of new job sources; and decent work in Cuba.

The direct and indirect effects of the embargo on the Cuban economy and people affect not only the enterprises, but even more their workers and the population in general. The International Labour Organization (ILO) is particularly concerned about the impacts on children, workers and the elderly. Ending the embargo would turn the overall loss into an opportunity for productive investment, employment generation and new business opportunities, as well as for achieving the Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social hasta 2030 and other reforms aimed at improving the economic and social system, for example monetary unification and the expansion of self-employment schemes.

In the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic recovery, the embargo is limiting the possibilities for the country to implement jobs and economic recovery strategies.

The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) wrote:

Given that Cuba is subject to an embargo, projects implemented by FAO in the country are affected with regard to the procurement of equipment and supplies that complement the technical assistance because the resources that could be imported from the United States have to be imported from far more distant markets, at much higher prices and higher freight costs. If acquisitions could be made in the United States, it would be much cheaper and more activities could be supported through the available budget.

The most recent embargo measures against Cuba, under which third-country companies trading with Cuba can be sued in United States courts, have had a negative impact on Cuban trade by drastically reducing the commercial partners that operate in the country. This has had a direct impact on the procurement operations that FAO carries out in Cuba in the framework of its technical cooperation projects.

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Under the embargo, conditions hinder the processes of payments and banking transactions to and from suppliers who provide services for cooperation projects and to the FAO country office. This is demonstrated by banks’ rejections of transfers from FAO for sales to Cuba; the impossibility for suppliers to offer products to Cuba obtained from other North American companies; and the inability of suppliers to transfer funds to Cuba for payment of services contracted in the country.

In addition, banks reject commercial and financial transactions by Cuban enterprises in United States dollars and in other currencies, which hinders payment for certifications of Cuban products with a high potential to be commercialized in Europe.

FAO staff continue to be affected by expensive and long formalities in banking processes.

A summary of the negative effects caused by the embargo in some of the sectors in which FAO is providing technical support and other sectors included within its country programming framework is presented below.

The losses originated mainly in:

(a) Price differences owing to changes in the import market;

(b) Additional costs related to freight insurance;

(c) Additional costs owing to a freeze of assets;

(d) Monetary damages;

(e) Losses owing to lack of access to the latest technology from the United States;

(f) Relocation of exports.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) wrote:

the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) continued to express concern regarding the negative impact that extraterritorial sanctions have on human rights.

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Seven United Nations human rights experts reiterated this in a message, requesting the United States of America to lift its economic and financial embargo on Cuba that is obstructing humanitarian responses to help the country’s health-care system fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Particular difficulties were reported in countries subject to unilateral coercive measures, including Cuba, to obtain medical equipment vital to fight the pandemic, including oxygen supply and ventilators, protective kits and spare -parts software

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The Human Rights Council expressed its grave concern that, in some countries, such measures impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the populations, with particular consequences for women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities.

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the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reiterated her call for the lifting of unilateral sectoral sanctions, given their negative impact on human rights, including the right to health.

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four mandate holders of the Special Procedure of the Human Rights Council stressed that unilateral sanctions impinge on the right to development and called on countries that impose unilateral sanctions to withdraw or at least to minimize them to guarantee that the rule of law and human rights, including the right to development, are not affected.

They explicitly referred to Cuba as a targeted country and pointed out that owing to the unilateral sanctions some countries sink into poverty because they cannot get essential services like electricity, housing, water, gas and fuel, let alone medicine and food.

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the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that sanctions can create severe and undue suffering for individuals who have neither perpetrated crimes nor otherwise bear responsibility for improper conduct. When sanctions target an entire country, or address entire economic sectors, it is the most vulnerable people in that country – those who are least protected – who are likely to be worst harmed.

Ravenlocke

2nd November 2023, 18:02

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1st March 2024, 20:13

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Ravenlocke

2nd April 2024, 23:14

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Cuba received a ship from Russia with more than 90,000 tons of oil to ease the energy crisis.

Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mining said the ship had arrived at the Matanzas base in the west of the country and would be the second shipment of crude oil from Moscow to Havana after the one sent on March 17, which delivered 31,000 tons of crude oil worth almost $50 million.

Cuba is experiencing an energy crisis, reflected in power outages, which is likely to subside in the coming days. - FRWL reports

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Ravenlocke

2nd April 2024, 23:21

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Cubans are chanting “power and food” during protests due to power outages and food shortages throughout #Cuba. 🗣️🪧

Cubans are without power for up to #10hours a day. #AbelSantamaria resident #YoniMena told Reuters, “Living without electricity is primitive.… The mosquitoes, the heat, sometimes there is no water. People are losing their minds. And that leads to other problems, like violence.” 👀

Santiago’s Luz Perez stated, “I love Cuba. But this situation is terrible. No one can live like this.”

#News #trendingnews #TheNewAmericanMagazine #TheNewAmerican #cubanos #Cubans #FoodShortages #BreakingNews #trendingtopic #TrendingNow2024 #Viral #fypviraltwitter

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Power and Food Shortages Spark Protests in Cuba

Cubans are chanting “power and food” during protests due to power outages and food shortages throughout Cuba.

Cubans are without power for up to 10 hours a day. Abel Santamaria resident Yoni Mena told Reuters, “Living without electricity is primitive.… The mosquitoes, the heat, sometimes there is no water. People are losing their minds. And that leads to other problems, like violence.” Santiago’s Luz Perez stated, “I love Cuba. But this situation is terrible. No one can live like this.”

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel blamed U.S. sanctions, telling NBC News, “We are free, sovereign and independent, and we are going to continue building our revolution, despite the tightening of the blockade, despite the fact that we have been included on a spurious list that can only be invented by a government as genocidal and as hegemonic as the government of the United States.”

Díaz-Canel accused the U.S. blockade of being genocidal, stating on X, “We thank the people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and our brother Ralph Gonsalves, for the donation of flour they sent to #Cuba to help alleviate the difficult situation we face as a result of #BloqueoGenocida from the United States government. #CubaNoEstáSola”

Ravenlocke

24th October 2024, 17:22

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🇨🇺The US blockade of Cuba has plunged the country into darkness.

As of Friday, October 18, Cuba has been suffering an unprecedented national blackout. The cause of this is the lack of fuel and maintenance to keep the electrical grid operating properly. Cuba has been severely restricted from purchasing fuel and crucial supplies because of the tight US blockade on the country. Cuban officials have repeatedly called for Washington to lift some of these suffocating sanctions (and the blockade as a whole) and allow the country to purchase lifesaving supplies, yet once again their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

Read the account of this blackout from journalist
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📸 Luis de Jesús.

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Cuba, in the dark but not defeated

The following is a personal account of the blackout in Cuba by journalist Laura Prada.

It has been more than 72 hours without electricity. The last time I spent so many days without electricity was in Venezuela, in March 2020, when an attack on the national electric power system left the country without electricity for a week.

The origin was the same: a tangled regime of sanctions and blockade; the refusal of a powerful country to accept the will of independent peoples determined to forge their own path.

At that time we were on the ground, informing Venezuela and the world about what was happening there, regardless of sleep, hunger, fatigue….

Today, four years later, a similar attack, a consequence of a blockade put in place more than 60 years ago, has caused Cuba’s electric power system to collapse and disconnect the country from one end to the other. Just as then, we are ready for whatever comes. The only worry, now we have a three-year-old child in our care.

The fire you have inside to go out and show what is happening burns you. You feel that the walls of the house oppress you. You know that your duty is to inform and go out to dismantle the lies that are being constructed about what is happening. Meanwhile, I hear in the background the occasional casserole pan looking for others to join in a chorus and the cries of those who bet on the lottery and lost.

A “Mom, I want water” breaks the lethargy. I run to the kitchen to satisfy the thirst of Ernesto, the three-year-old who has been asking for two days “what time does the power come back on?”

Outside it rains and the wind swirls, I go back to the living room to check that no water enters, I go back to check that the food is not burning, I climb to the top of a ladder to look for signal and data. In the distance I hear the echoes of power plants. They say that the island is gradually lighting up. A map with green and yellow dots circulates in social networks and is shared in groups.

Uncertainty sometimes takes over me, the desire to go out and tell what is happening outside is overshadowed, annulled, in light of the greater responsibility of protecting that child. While he rests, I resume my tour of the house in search of a point of connectivity.

There is something that does not leave my mind and I have been repeating it for hours. This is the reality of the f***ing Yankee blockade. This is one of its many faces and today we are looking it in the eye.

For more than 72 hours Cuba is in the dark, but not defeated.

Down with the blockade! Carajo

Laura Prada is a Cuban journalist based in Havana.

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24th October 2024, 17:25

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24th October 2024, 17:44

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Power is gradually restored in Cuba, Hurricane Oscar downgraded to tropical storm
After several false starts over the weekend, the efforts to recover Cuba’s electrical system began to make headway on October 21. Meanwhile, authorities have declared that Oscar has become a tropical storm.

Following a severe collapse of the national power grid on October 18, Cuba continues to make great efforts to restore electrical service to all homes and institutions on the island.

The Electric Company of the capital, Havana, reported that close to 90% of the clients in the capital have been reconnected and announced that “There will be no rest until the Electric System is fully restored.”

In this regard, President Miguel Dïaz-Canel said “We were at the National Load Dispatch since very early in the morning. The microsystems in the country are being strengthened and Havana is gradually receiving energy. It is a complex job, but we are taking sure steps. We said that we will not rest until the total reestablishment.”

In other parts of the country, reconnections continue while attempts are made to repair the damages suffered by the thermoelectric power plants, which, due to the difficulties of access to spare parts and technological elements that help to repower the system (caused fundamentally by the criminal economic blockade suffered by Cuba on the part of the US government), the repair tasks are very complicated.

Tropical Storm Oscar

Amid the critical situation with the collapse of the power grid, Hurricane Oscar made landfall on the Caribbean Island late on Sunday. Fortunately for the inhabitants of eastern Cuba, the storm downgraded its intensity and hit the island as a tropical storm, though still unleashing heavy rains and wind in the eastern region. The level of damage that Oscar can produce is still uncertain.

According to experts, the storm is now headed to the Bahamas, though authorities have called on the population to not lower their guard and to be alert to official communication channels.

The world stands with Cuba

Amid Cuba’s blackout, the member states of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP), expressed in a communiqué their support to the Cuban government and offered their help to overcome the difficult times the island is going through: “The complex situation that [Cuba] is experiencing today is a consequence of the economic war, financial persecution and [the refusal to sell] fuel supplies by the US administration, which seeks to asphyxiate Cuba in its commitment to the well-being of the Cuban people”.

Furthermore, the communiqué adds “The policy of maximum pressure through unilateral coercive measures and the blockade against the nation is cruel and inhuman and has been categorically rejected by the majority of the countries of the world, since […] it only seeks a change of regime, in open violation of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and the norms of International Law.”

In a press conference on October 21, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Lin Jian, also expressed support to Cuba as it faces unprecedented challenges, “[The] US blockade on Cuba has been catastrophic for Cuba’s socioeconomic development and people’s lives. China once again calls on the US to fully lift the blockade and sanctions on Cuba at once and remove Cuba from the list of ‘state sponsors of terrorism.’”

In a statement, the platform of social movements of Latin America and the Caribbean, ALBA Movimientos, categorized the current situation on the island as one of “anguish and tension, a product of the suffering induced by the criminal blockade.” ALBA Movimientos argues that the US-imposed blockade ultimately seeks to “undermine the role of the Cuban State in satisfying the basic needs of the population, while trying to privilege an incipient private sector, incapable by its condition of providing the levels and extent of social justice achieved by the Revolution.”

In the statement, the movements also warn that this latest episode of blockade-induced hardship on the island could be seized upon by reactionary, counter-revolutionary forces. “At this moment, all the psychological pressure apparatus is being used to induce a social outburst of unforeseeable consequences, using as a basis and pretext the legitimate expressions of social unrest resulting from the current situation, its accumulated and possible solutions,” it warns.

The only viable solution which would respect the sovereignty of Cuba and guarantee the possibility of dignified life, is the immediate and irreversible lifting of the blockade on Cuba, concludes ALBA.

Meanwhile, the White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre claimed in a press conference on October 21, that the US is “not to blame for the blackouts on the island or the overall energy situation in Cuba.”

Ravenlocke

24th October 2024, 17:46

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Amid Cuba’s blackouts, activists urge Biden to reverse devastating sanctions
Open letter in New York Times urges Biden to reverse Trump-era sanctions against the socialist state

Cuba solidarity activists, organized by the People’s Forum, published an open letter today in the New York Times, urging US President Biden to overturn devastating Trump-era sanctions on Cuba. This letter comes as the island is experiencing blackouts driven by the energy crisis—the direct result of such sanctions.

“Cuba is currently experiencing a nationwide blackout, exacerbated by the cruel sixty-year-long US embargo,” the letter reads. “This embargo has prevented the country from purchasing fuel, accessing essential goods, and obtaining spare parts for its power grid- leaving millions of people in the dark.”

Next week, the UN will take its annual vote to lift the US blockade against Cuba, which historically has resulted in UN member nations voting nearly unanimously against the blockade. Last year, 187 nations voted for a UN resolution to end the over-60-year-long blockade. The only states to vote against the resolution were the US and Israel. Ukraine was the only state to abstain.

Biden has upheld former president Trump’s harsh measures against Cuba, which reversed Obama-era policies towards normalization. These include maintaining Cuba on the US’s list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, as well as Trump’s 243 additional sanctions against the socialist state.

“In the past sixty years, the embargo has cost over $164 billion in damages, with more than $5 billion in losses in the last year alone (March 2023-February 2024). Each year, the United States stands virtually alone before the UN General Assembly as the word condemns this policy,” the letter states.

“This devastating blackout is just one aspect of the United States’ legacy of facilitating suffering on the island through the embargo. Trump’s brutal policy should be reversed. It’s not too late to do the right thing.”

Ravenlocke

24th October 2024, 18:07

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arwen

10th November 2024, 22:35

Cuba is having a hellish time of it lately - blackouts, hurricanes and now 2 earthquakes:

6.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Cuba after hurricanes and blackouts (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/68-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-cuba-after-hurricanes-and-blackouts/ar-AA1tPFd9)

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HAVANA (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 shook eastern Cuba on Sunday, after weeks of hurricanes and blackouts that have left many on the island reeling.

Shaking felt in Florida after powerful earthquakes strike off Cuba’s coast (https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/strong-earthquakes-cuba-tsunami-threat)

MIAMI – Residents in Florida reported feeling the ground move after two powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Cuba late Sunday morning, prompting brief fears that a tsunami could impact areas closest to the epicenter in the Caribbean.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the two earthquakes were reported within an hour of each other.

The first was a magnitude 5.9 that was reported just before 11 a.m. ET approximately 22 miles south of Bartolomé Masó, Cuba, at a depth of about 9 miles.

The second earthquake, which was the stronger of the two, was reported an hour later just before noon ET. That earthquake was a magnitude 6.8 and was centered about 25 miles south of Bartolomé Masó at a depth of about 8 miles.

Shortly after the second earthquake was reported, the National Weather Service Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Honolulu issued an alert stating that while there was no significant threat of a tsunami, "there is a very small possibility of tsunami waves along coasts nearest to the epicenter."

Ravenlocke

5th January 2025, 17:56

🇷🇺🇨🇺 Russia to Begin Diesel Fuel Deliveries to Cuba

Cuba and Russia are set to strengthen their partnership with an imminent contract for diesel fuel supplies, according to Cuban Ambassador to Russia Julio Antonio Garmendia Pena. Speaking to Sputnik, the ambassador confirmed that the agreement has been finalized, with deliveries expected to begin in the coming days.

The deal will provide Cuba with 80,000 tonnes of diesel fuel worth $60 million, aiding the island’s recovery from its recent hurricane-induced energy crisis. This development follows Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko’s November 2024 announcement of Moscow’s commitment to supporting Cuba’s energy stability in challenging times.

❗️This is more than just a fuel contract, it’s a signal of solidarity. As Washington tightens its sanctions noose, Moscow and Havana are writing the next chapter in a long-standing alliance built on resilience and defiance. While the empire isolates, the multipolar world bridges gaps, delivering lifelines where others sow chaos.

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14th January 2025, 21:37

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Will the Cuban revolution survive the storm of 2025?
Danny ShawJanuary 1, 2025

Danny Shaw has been traveling to Cuba since 1995 in support of the country’s socialist revolution. Unsatisfied with the official proclamations and guided tours for international leftists, he embarked on a project of first-hand ethnographic research across the country over the decades. With a command of Cuban Spanish, Shaw wandered off the beaten path, independently evaluating conditions in the country. Surveying the perspectives of some of the most marginalized populations in Havana, he assesses their responses to the US unilateral blockade and Cuba’s isolation.

On Jan. 1, Cuba officially joined the international grouping known as BRICS, as one of 13 nations incorporated as “partner states.” The date, which coincides with the 66th anniversary of the triumph of their revolution, could mark a turning point for the beleaguered socialist state. But unless the country’s leaders embrace a strategic fiscal shift in the face of an asphyxiating US blockade, the prospect of state collapse – and the unraveling of over a half century of revolutionary social development – can not be dismissed.

“Ataca Sabroso” (Attack With Sweetness)

Throughout my decades of firsthand research in Cuba, few figures seemed to embody the revolution — and all its contradictions — like “Sumy,” the boxer. A slender 6′ 2,” at 60 years old, he could still pass for 39. Known for a long, stiff jab that snapped heads back, the retired fighter turned long-time high school principal still has his dazzling punching combinations. For two decades, Jesús Miguel Rodríguez Muro, known by his nickname Sumy, glided through cruiserweight boxing competitions across Cuba. Internationally, he made a name for himself as well, fighting in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries.

A dedicated member of the Cuban Communist Party, Sumy resides in Arroyo Naranjo, an outer municipality of Havana. The retired athlete lived as all Cubans do: modestly. During a recent visit, his feet swung off a small ramshackle bed. He had a collection of books and notebooks stacked on a bookshelf that was on its last leg. His bedroom, which moonlit as a living room, was furnished with a tiny TV straight out of the 1980s and a transistor radio that one might see in a Vietnam war movie. At night time, when hunger stirred and no protein was available, Sumy grabbed two pieces of cheap cake and tossed them into an empty loaf of bread. He devoured the make-shift stuffed gyro, winking at his boxing students: “Sabroso, sabroso!”

US intelligence exploits Cuban youth’s malaise

The Cuban Revolution once guaranteed every citizen health care, education and basic social and economic rights. In Sumy’s case, the shift could be clearly delineated by generation. Sumy’s parents’ generation made the revolution. Sumy’s generation benefited from the social transformation and fortified it. But Sumy’s children’s generation, who came of age in the 1990s, have had a different experience. In the words of one mother and communist militant in Marianao: “The new generation has only lived in a period of sacrifice and more sacrifice. They don’t remember the struggle against Batista nor the first decade of the revolution, with those marvelous debates and experiments we had at that time. They only know austerity.”

The collapse can be felt throughout Cuba’s economy, and perhaps nowhere more acutely than its critical sugar industry. Initially, collectivization proved immensely successful, with Cuba under Castro reaching a peak of 8.5 million metric tonnes of sugar between 1969 and 1970. In the early 90s, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuban farmers still produced 7 million metric tons, accounting for a whopping 30% of global sugar exports. But the number fell by half virtually overnight as Cuba’s friends abroad disappeared, and continued to dwindle in the intervening years.

The decline has become more pronounced in recent years, as the number of functioning sugar mills in Cuba has dropped to just 16, with US sanctions continuing to make repairs near-impossible. In 2019, the island managed to produce 1.3 million metric tons of sugar. By 2023, that number dropped to 350,000, with the island failing – for the first time since the 1800s – to produce enough sugar to provide for domestic consumption. As economist Juan Triana explained, it’s difficult to overstate the significance of the massive dropoff in sugar: “For more than 150 years, the industry of sugarcane was both the main export income and the locomotive for the rest of the economy. That’s what we’ve lost.”

Tourism, which overtook sugar as Cuba’s top industry in 1997, has nearly evaporated in the same recent span. Following the appearance of COVID, the island’s visitors dropped from over 4,000,000 per year to just 356,500 in 2021.

Now, Cuba has neither the foreign revenue nor a self-reliant economy to feed its people. The island has been teetering on the brink of disaster since 1990; the start of the pandemic only exacerbated the situation. There are routine blackout crises. Gas shortages are frequent. A trip across Havana on public transportation can take three hours or more. Residents, fatigued by six and a half decades of a Cold War, are demanding “electricity and food.” The imperialist Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) forecasts that this reality will spurn more protests. Rations are down to a bare minimum and even those are often not available. According to one doctor and Cuban Communist Party leader known by his nom de guerre, Oldanier: “We live like Palestinians minus the bombing. Malnutrition is everywhere. Inflation has skyrocketed. The state cannot pay our salaries. Child mortality is way up. More and more people are fleeing.”

Cuba, like many nations targeted by the US for regime change, has seen a major exodus in recent years, with nearly half a million Cubans – representing a full 5% of the Cuban population – reportedly attempting to immigrate to the United States between 2021 and 2023.

The end of rations?

Before the aggravated crisis that began with the pandemic, every month, each member of a household in Cuba received a monthly “canasta básica” (basic basket) consisting of an allotment of rice, chickpeas, black beans, cooking oil, salt, sugar, coffee, soap, bread, eggs, chicken, tobacco, and toothpaste. Now, residents complain that portions have dropped significantly, rice arrives late, and chicken has vanished, replaced by cans of potted meat. If a family wants fruit, vegetables, or anything beyond la libreta (the ration book), it is up to their own individual spending ability. Families describe the creative artform of stretching a meager amount of food for the entire month, with one explaining how they saved up extra eggs for New Years Eve in order to be able to give their children some type of treat that night.

Cuba’s internationally-renowned medical sector, once the pride of Latin America, hasn’t been immune to the downturn either. “We cannot provide what is required for those with diabetes and other sick people,” one nurse lamented.

Due to shortages deliberately caused by the intensification of the trade embargo, Cuba’s inflation rate is an astronomical 39.1%. Access to dollars is the only way many people can eat. They can access the private Micro and Small Enterprises stores (MYPIMES) which sell food and other products at prices pegged to the dollar and euro. This means that to buy a pound of chicken in “the free market,” a Cuban will spend up to 20 percent of their monthly salary. For two weeks of milk, they may spend two weeks of their salary. Many Communist Party vets say these are their worst economic conditions yet. One community leader lamented: “We don’t have medication. I am a diabetic. We just keep losing weight. Look at these 25 pounds I have lost. Carlos Lazo’s Bridges of Love (Puentes de Amor) program helps us but it is not enough.”

With no indication that things will improve anytime soon, many Cubans – specifically, young adults – want out. Meanwhile, their blockaded futures provide fertile soil for the next color revolution attempt.

The younger generation of Cubans are mostly singing a different tune than Sumy and the revolutionary old guard. US intelligence is doing all it can to exploit the resentments of those elements which USAID branded as “desocialized and marginalized youth” from Afro-Cuban communities. As Max Blumenthal reported for The Grayzone, US intelligence has invested millions in a Cultural Cold War-style program to boost counterrevolutionary rappers, artists and activists.

The first wave of weaponized Cuban artists emerged from the so-called San Isidro Movement. I first met San Isidro founders Amaury Pacheco, Omni Zona Franca and some of the collective’s future activists in 2001 at poetry and music festivals in Alamar, Havana del Este. While these dreadlocked, anarchist-oriented performers claimed to be “non-ideological,” it was clear they were the kind of “dissidents” the CIA was courting to lead the counterrevolution. They were fiercely dedicated to toppling the Cuban state and eager to work with any foreigners who could help them travel internationally and advocate for a Western-style color revolution in Cuba.

Destitution by design

The destruction of Cuba’s economy represents an undeniable success of decades of US foreign policy. The Trump and Biden administrations ultimately remained faithful to the original objective of the 1960 blockade – as have those that preceded them, including that of Barack Obama, who only slightly tweaked certain stipulations restricting travel. A year after the revolution’s triumph, Eisenhower calculated: “If the Cuban people are hungry, they will throw Castro out.” Four months later, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lester D. Mallory agreed: “Every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba… to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of the government.”

Drafted in 1960, the US government’s “Program of Covert Action” continues to inform US policy towards Cuba. For six decades, the US has sought to suffocate and destroy Cuba’s self-determination.

More than 3,400 Cubans have been killed by US state terrorism since the revolution. US intelligence plotted and organized 638 known attempts on Fidel Castro’s life. Biological warfare has been used such as the intentional infection of the island’s pig population with the swine virus. It is more difficult to calculate the human cost of sanctions. Hunger and migration are the two most common results. Over 200,000 Cubans have been forced to leave their homeland in the past year and a half, a figure even larger than previous migrations such as the Marielitos and the 1994 “rafters.”

Every policy of today’s most powerful empire has been calculated and designed to inflict regime change in Cuba, a euphemism for the complete overhaul of class relations. Ignoring these external pressures, the legacy media hyper fixates on repression in Cuba instead. The constant threats, harassment and US intelligence-backed terrorist campaigns have successfully instilled a level of paranoia in Cuban leadership, which has had to focus precious resources on national security. This defensive posture plays right into the hands of Cuba’s would-be colonizers in Washington and Miami.

Whether it is framed as Biden’s last hoorah or Trump’s opening salvo, the US national security elite, drunk off its genocidal rampage across the Middle East, still wants to overthrow the Cuban government. On the island, rumors swirl that the US is planning another San Isidro-style color revolution attempt in hopes of provoking state repression. This would naturally pave the way for Elon Musk-aligned influencers and the corporate media to frame “Communist Cuba” as a bastion of repression and provide Washington with a justification to finish off the recalcitrant state.

Multipolarity: Cuba’s only hope

The Cuban leadership, seasoned by six decades of resistance, is searching for a response to the hybrid war and its impact on morale. They respond as any fighter who is fighting above their weight does: aggressively and desperately. Now, it’s become clear that their only way to break the blockade is multipolarity.

Visits back and forth between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Cuban counterpart highlight Cuba’s increasing resolve to build up their own Chinese style competitive state companies which would put an end to the food shortages. Cuba hosted the Group of 77 last year, the largest international organization after the United Nations itself. 134 countries, or 80 percent of the world population, are currently represented in the now misnamed “Group of 77.” From Havana, chairman of the Group of 77, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, insisted: “After all this time that the North has organized the world according to its interests, it is now up to the South to change the rules of the game.” Cuba, along with 34 other countries, has applied for membership in BRICS. The addition of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Argentina (contested by the new president Milei) at the beginning of 2024, means the BRICS bloc nations now constitute 42% of the world’s population and account for 23% of gross domestic product and 18% of global trade. Cuba’s future does not run through Wall Street or the Beltway, it runs through Moscow, Beijing, Caracas, Tehran, Johannesburg and the other burgeoning centers of multipolarity.

President Diaz-Canel visited Iran to discuss mutually-beneficial ways to break the embargoes. The Deputy President Salvador Valdés Mesa travelled to South Africa to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties. On May 9th, the 79th anniversary of the Soviet Day of Victory over Fascism, the Cuban president celebrated with Vladimir Putin in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Cuba hosted a fleet of Russian warships in its harbors, just 500 miles from nuclear-powered US attack submarines which continue to occupy Guantanamo Bay.

One of Cuba’s most malicious enemies, incoming Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has warned of the shifting geopolitical dimensions. Alarmed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s multipolar instincts and his visits to Beijing and beyond, the neoconservative Florida senator appeared anxious on Fox News: “We won’t have to talk about sanctions in five years because there’ll be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won’t have the ability to sanction them.” Could the “sanction inability” theory, as the Chinese Global Times calls it, spell relief for the Cuban people or is it too late? In theory, Cuba should no longer be an isolated state standing on its own. So why is this not translating into relief for the Cuban people?

Unfortunately for Cubans, you cannot yet feed your children nor fuel your cars with multipolarity. Capitalism demands instant gratification. And the average young Cuban knows there’s far more to be found in Miami than Havana.

Argentinian sociologist Atilio Borón, analyzing the impact of Western sanctions on South American and Caribbean countries, explained that hunger was more dangerous than any weapons system that Washington could deploy. An air-tight blockade is inflicting acute hunger and despair on the over 11,000,000 people of Cuba. Supporters of Cuba and the leaders of the multipolar world have a responsibility to ask: Before the most powerful empire in history, how much longer can the revolution hold on?

Late rounds in Cuba’s fight for survival

There are two January showdowns shaping up in the Caribbean. On January 1st 2025, the 66th anniversary of the revolution, Cuba will officially become a member of BRICS. On January 20th, Donald Trump and his cabinet of billionaires will take state power in the United States. Trump enacted a further 243 coercive measures against Cuba when he assumed office in 2016. The Biden administration continued to tighten the noose around Cuba. The US has not recognized Nicolas Maduro, Cuba’s closest ally, as the president of Venezuela, instead designating right-wing opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the country’s leader. This sets up a clash for inauguration day in Caracas on January 10th, 2025—which the US is looking to exploit.

This December, the Department of Defense signed an agreement with Trinidad and Tobago which allows them “to deploy forces to Trinidad and Tobago in the event of a “conflict” in Venezuela.” And another US-supported San Isidro-style color revolution attempt against Cuba is expected in the opening months of Trump’s second term.

Fidel Castro highlighted the centrality of the ideological struggle, the showdown for the heart and soul of a people. On the 66th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, many Habaneros are gripped with an acute sense that Western leftist tourists and solidarity activists have over-glorified their reality. Something has to give. Either the expanded BRICS nations will incorporate Cuba into their multipolar economic, political and diplomatic expansion or the vultures will finish Cuba off. There is no middle ground.

Cuba’s fight for survival resembles the boxing career of Mohammed Ali. For the first three decades, the revolution was youthful, sharp, bold and invincible. Past generations of Cubans fought for Angola and Syria, stood with Grenada and the Sandinistas, admiring and emulating the heroes of the revolution. This generation faces hunger, despair and isolation, with the government outmatched by objective reality. With the collapse of the anti-capitalist rival pole of the Cold War era, Cuba has been left to fight on its own.

Multipolarity may be on the rise, but as the Western-backed genocide in Gaza and the setbacks suffered by the Axis of Resistance show, US hegemony has proven resilient. As in Ali’s final rounds, exhausted, with its vulnerabilities exposed, the island nation still somehow miraculously pushes through, paying a long-term price as it weathers one punishing blow after another. Unlike a prize fighter, the descendants of José Martí and Fidel Castro do not have the option of giving up or retiring.

Ravenlocke

16th August 2025, 18:39

#Cuba | Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected statements by United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who announced that his country would limit the granting of visas to countries that request Cuban doctors and health workers.

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https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-rejects-u-s-visa-restrictions-over-medical-cooperation-programs/?noamp=available

Cuba Rejects U.S. Visa Restrictions Over Medical Cooperation Programs

Currently, over 24,000 Cuban health workers provide services abroad as part of solidarity missions.

On Wednesday, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected statements by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who announced that his country would limit the granting of visas to nations that request Cuban doctors and health workers.

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Cuban Doctors Prevent Collapse of Grenada’s Health System: PM Mitchell

“The U.S. Secretary of State is threatening visa restrictions against governments that have legitimate medical cooperation programs with Cuba. This shows imposition and aggression, using force as the new doctrine of that government’s foreign policy. Cuba will continue providing services,” Rodriguez said.

Previously, in a message posted on social media on Wednesday, Rubio announced new measures the administration of President Donald Trump will implement to curb Cuban medical cooperation, which Washington accuses of exporting health workers under exploitative wage conditions.

“The United States is expanding its Cuba-related visa restriction policy. The State Department has taken steps to restrict visa issuance to Cuban and complicit third-country government officials and individuals responsible for Cuba’s exploitative labor export program,” Rubio said.

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“The State Department is taking steps to impose visa restrictions on several African, Cuban and Grenadian government officials complicit in the Cuban regime’s coerced forced labor export scheme. We are committed to ending this practice. Countries that are complicit in this exploitative practice should think twice,” Rubio warned.

The U.S. secretary of state also announced actions against several senior Brazilian government officials and former executives of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for their participation in the “More Doctors” program, which allowed Brazil to provide health care in its most remote communities using Cuban personnel.

During his two terms, President Trump has led a campaign to accuse Cuba of using doctors and other health workers as instruments of political influence. In June, the U.S. government announced the application of visa restrictions against several Central American government officials due to their involvement in programs to hire Cuban doctors.

Currently, more than 24,000 Cuban health workers provide services abroad as part of solidarity missions, some of which are completely free while others are compensated for the services provided.

https://x.com/telesurenglish/status/1919840842329817274

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Ravenlocke

29th October 2025, 17:24

Max Blumenthal,

The US, Ukraine, Israel and Javier Milei vs the world on strangling Cuba

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Ravenlocke

29th October 2025, 17:25

Zlatti71

The US representative to the UN walked out of the hall during the speech of the UN permanent representative to Cuba during the discussion of the economic blockade of the island

The international community calls on the US to end the blockade of Cuba.
- SMI

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Ravenlocke

29th October 2025, 17:33

teleSUR English

The representation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to the United Nations (UN) demanded that the United States lift the economic, financial, and commercial blockade against Cuba.

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https://www.telesurenglish.net/asean-demands-an-end-to-the-u-s-blockade-against-cuba/?noamp=available

ASEAN demands an end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba
The blockade significantly affects any possibility of progress achieved by Cuba in the last 60 years

The representation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to the United Nations (UN) today demanded that the United States lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba.

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UNGA Debates on U.S. Blockade Against Cuba

Singapore’s ambassador to the UN, Burhan Gafoor, addressed the General Assembly also in his capacity as a representative of ASEAN, to discuss draft resolution A/80/L.6 on the report: Necessity of ending the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States government.

We demand that the United States lift the economic and commercial blockade against Cuba. We reiterate our conviction that differences between the two sides can find consensus through dialogue and not confrontation, Gafoor said.

The diplomat stressed that at the center of this issue was the people of Cuba, whose daily lives have been deeply affected by the blockade for decades.

The blockade has caused the Caribbean country millions in losses in the areas of import, export and commercial transactions; and it has affected the possibility of attracting foreign investment, buying raw materials and other essential goods, he said.

The representative of Singapore added that, for the Cuban people, this translates into shortages of products of daily use and difficulty in accessing vital medical services.

The blockade significantly affects any possibility of progress achieved by Cuba in the last 60 years. In addition, the United States keeps Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism with the sole objective of reinforcing and exacerbating the impact of the blockade, he warned.

Gafoor said the sanctions affect Cuba’s ability to access international financial institutions and participate in international trade. Likewise, the restriction on fuel exports has aggravated the current energy situation on the island, hindering the possibility for Cuba to optimally face the current climate challenges in the Caribbean.

It has been 33 years since this General Assembly adopted this resolution, and it is time for a reset. We urge both sides to engage in open and constructive dialogue, based on mutual respect and common interest, the diplomat stressed.

ASEAN joins the other members of this assembly in reiterating our call for the United States to lift its unilateral economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba, and to remove the Caribbean country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, he concluded.

Ravenlocke

29th October 2025, 17:59

teleSUR English

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez 🇨🇺 asserts that the permanent representative of the #USA🇺🇸 not only lies, straying from the topic, but also expresses himself in a rude manner against his presidency, against the dignity of the #UNGA, and against member states.

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Ravenlocke

29th October 2025, 18:03

And Cuba now faces hurricane Melissa,

Translated from Spanish
🇨🇺🌧 "We have prepared for the worst-case scenario": Díaz-Canel describes how Cuba faces the ravages of Hurricane Melissa

🗣 "Substantial damage, and Hurricane Melissa is still over Cuban territory. I ask our people not to let their guard down, to maintain discipline and continue to stay well protected. As soon as conditions allow, we will proceed to recovery. We are ready," wrote the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel on X.

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#Cuba | President Miguel Diaz-Canel led an expanded session of the National Defense Council to coordinate actions in the face of the imminent impact of Hurricane Melissa, which reached category 5 with sustained winds of more than 260 kilometers per hour.

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Ravenlocke

21st December 2025, 00:57

Sputnik Mundo

Dec 19
Translated from Spanish
🇲🇽🇨🇺 Mexico sends two ships to Cuba to help them alleviate their energy crisis

🛢 Two vessels from Mexico, carrying a total of about 80,000 barrels of fuel, will arrive on the island in the coming days to help ease the severe energy crisis facing the Caribbean nation, according to data from the University of Texas Energy Institute, cited by Milenio.

⚠️ The shipments are taking place at a critical moment, marked by blackouts of 20 or more hours daily in wide areas of Cuban territory, amid uncertainty about the continuity of crude oil supplies from Venezuela.

🚢 The vessels Ocean Mariner and Eugenia Gas, both flying the Liberian flag, loaded fuel at facilities of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). The Eugenia Gas is already sailing toward the Cuban port of Moa (east), while the second vessel is preparing to set sail.

💡 Cuba has been experiencing a deep energy crisis since mid-2024, due to recurring breakdowns in its thermoelectric power plants and a lack of foreign currency to import fuel. In the last year, the national electrical system has recorded five total collapses.

📊 The 80,000 barrels sent by Mexico cover just over the island's daily deficit, which requires about 110,000 barrels for its basic needs.

https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/2002174862086058148

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Ravenlocke

21st December 2025, 01:18

dana reposted

Sony Thăng

Cuba is not a "disaster" because Cubans are incompetent.

Cuba is a poor country that has survived 60+ years of blockade from the richest empire on earth.

You call them "incompetent people" while ignoring that Washington has tried, every single decade, to strangle their economy, sabotage their development, and punish any country that trades with them.

The miracle is not that Cuba is poor.

The miracle is that after Bay of Pigs, assassination attempts, terrorism, sanctions, and embargoes, Cuba still has doctors, schools, and a state that never once knelt and begged for U.S. permission to exist.

If Cuba is "destroyed," what do you call a country that spends trillions on wars and still can’t give its people free healthcare, affordable housing, or debt-free education?

You look at a nation that has been economically suffocated for generations and blame the victim’s "incompetence."

I look at the same island and see something else:

A small country that refused to sell its sovereignty, and is still being punished for the crime of not wanting to be someone else’s plantation.

@marcorubio

@SecRubio

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sdv

21st December 2025, 17:53

Ravenlocke ... and Cuba, embattled and oppressed by America, does give its citizens free healthcare, affordable housing, debt-free education at all levels, without ramping up trillions in national debt. How come Cuba can do that but America, that is convinced of its own superiority and greatness, cannot?

Americans have been conned into believing that free healthcare, affordable housing and transport, free health care are a 'communist' threat (or even worse ... socialism, which does not work and is so evil!). It is the elite wealthy and political class that are threatened by what many countries, who are not communist or socialist, accept as basic human rights.

Cuba is changing. It was never actually a communist country, but it is moving towards allowing some measure of private business ownership, rather than moving toward communism (for Marx, communism is the end goal of socialism). I think for now it covers running a small restaurant from your home, or renting out a room in your home for visitors to the country.

Vicus

13th January 2026, 19:21

Mexico Continues Supplying Oil to Cuba Despite U.S. Warnings -today

The country became a key fuel supplier to the Caribbean island amid the Cuban economic and energy crisis.

On Monday, United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed that Mexico will continue supplying oil to Cuba despite warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Following the U.S. attacks on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, Mexico became a key fuel supplier to the Caribbean island, amid the Cuban economic and energy crisis.

Wright stated that Washington is “not seeking to provoke the collapse of the Cuban government,” but rather to “negotiate” with Havana to abandon its communist system. However, Trump had reiterated that “there will be no more oil or money” for Cuba.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded that bilateral relations must be based on international law, not on hostility, threats, or economic coercion. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that if both parties agree, Mexico could mediate in a potential dialogue between the U.S. and Cuba.

She clarified that her recent conversation with Trump did not address the issue of Cuba or oil shipments, although Sheinbaum acknowledged that it could be discussed in future bilateral meetings. She noted that oil supply to Cuba is carried out within a legal framework, as an exercise of humanitarian principles.

She added that Mexico has sufficient energy resources to cover its domestic needs and maintain its support for the island, dismissing concerns among the Mexican population regarding this international commitment.

The Mexican president pointed out that oil supply aid to Cuba is of a historical nature and has been supported by different administrations, regardless of political affiliation.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexico-continues-supplying-oil-to-cuba-despite-u-s-warnings/

Ravenlocke

20th January 2026, 00:50

COMBATE |🇵🇷

Jan 16
"To die for the homeland is to live"

Cuba bids farewell to its 32 martyrs

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Ravenlocke

20th January 2026, 00:52

COMBATE |🇵🇷

30,000 tons donation of Chinese rice arrives in Cuba, a country the US has tried to starve for 65 years

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Ravenlocke

20th January 2026, 00:55

COMBATE |🇵🇷

This is one of my favorite forms of American self-delusion. "No one other than the US observes the Cuba sanctions."

Société Générale was fined $1.34 billion for processing $5.5 billion in Cuba-related payments.

ING was fined $619 million for Cuba wire transfers.

European banks have been hit with 83% of all US sanctions fines.

They "observe" because the alternative is financial annihilation.

If a foreign bank defies OFAC, the US Treasury can cut off their access to the US clearing system entirely.

For a global bank, losing the ability to clear dollar transactions is a corporate death sentence.

They would cease to function overnight.

That's why they obey Washington over their own governments.

The EU has a blocking statute that makes it technically illegal for European companies to comply with US extraterritorial Cuba sanctions.

They comply anyway.

Then there's the "State Sponsor of Terrorism" designation, reinstated in 2021. This label is radioactive.

Over 100 foreign banks have terminated Cuba relationships entirely since then.

It triggers automatic "enhanced due diligence" protocols in every compliance department on earth, making a $500 remittance to someone's aunt look like terrorist financing to the algorithm.

88% of global forex transactions touch the dollar.

Every dollar payment clears through New York. Touch the dollar, obey OFAC.

The US also weaponizes supply chain dominance.

For most countries, foreign products can contain up to 25% US content before Washington cares.

For Cuba, the threshold is 10%.

A Swedish ventilator with US microchips cannot be sold to a Havana hospital without a Commerce Department license.

Since 2019, Title III of Helms-Burton allows US citizens to sue foreign companies in American courts for operating on land nationalized 60 years ago.

A Spanish hotel chain can be dragged before a judge in Miami for running a resort in Varadero. Foreign investment freezes.

Over 160 countries vote against this blockade at the UN every year. Their banks still refuse Cuba transactions, because the compliance industry runs on fear.

The blockade works precisely because other countries don't get a choice.

It's an extraterritorial financial empire.

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Ravenlocke

28th January 2026, 18:30

MFA Russia 🇷🇺

🎙 Maria #Zakharova on media leaks regarding US plans to tighten the blockade of Cuba:

We hope that these reports are unfounded. Common sense must prevail in Washington.

✊ Our solidarity with Cuban people and the leadership of Cuba remains unwavering.

https://t.me/MFARussia/28157

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Ravenlocke

28th January 2026, 18:38

COMBATE |🇵🇷

A massive torch-lit youth march took place in Cuba yesterday in honor of José Martí and Fidel Castro

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DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸 USA: Cuba is going to fall any day....

🇨🇺 Cuba yesterday in support of Fidel Casto, Jose Martí, and Cuban pride.

Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!!!

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Ravenlocke

28th January 2026, 19:28

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Translated from Spanish
The torches of the Centennial of #Martí and those of the Centennial of #Fidel bring warmth and light to the battle to conquer all justice. The harshness of the times and the brutality of the threats against #Cuba will not stop us. That challenge and our youth give us tremendous strength.

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Sputnik Mundo

Translated from Spanish
🇨🇺 Havana pays tribute to José Martí with the Torchlight March

Hundreds of Cubans joined the traditional mobilization to commemorate the 173rd anniversary of the birth of this politician and thinker, considered a National Hero on the island.

This tradition began at midnight on January 27, 1953, to mark the birth of the so-called Apostle of Independence, and since then, it has been held annually as an act of dignity and political resistance.

✅ On this occasion, thousands of people gathered on the steps of the University of Havana holding torches in hand to march along San Lázaro Street, heading toward Fragua Martiana, which was declared a national monument in May 1998.

🔹 Through his X account, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel recalled that the figure of José Martí is a symbol of independence and "of Cuban anti-imperialism." Likewise, he noted that this Torchlight March will also be dedicated to commemorating the centenary of the birth of Fidel Castro, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

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Ravenlocke

30th January 2026, 01:00

Disclose.tv

NEW - Trump signs executive order declaring a "national emergency" over Cuba, and will impose additional tariffs on countries supplying Cuba with oil.

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Ravenlocke

30th January 2026, 01:26

Translated from Spanish
🇺🇸 Trump: "No, no es mi intención, pero parece que es algo que, simplemente, no va a poder sobrevivir. Creo que Cuba no podrá sobrevivir", dijo al ser preguntado si busca "ahogar" a la isla con la imposición de aranceles

🇺🇸 Trump: "No, it is not my intention, but it seems like something that, simply, will not be able to survive. I think Cuba will not be able to survive," he said when asked if he seeks to "strangle" the island by imposing tariffs.

https://x.com/ActualidadRT/status/2017041913720041603

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Ravenlocke

30th January 2026, 01:34

Drop Site

🇨🇺 JUST IN | President Trump has signed a sweeping executive order declaring Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat" and authorizing broad new sanctions, including punishing foreign countries that sell oil to the island, even indirectly.

The move comes as the Financial Times reports Cuba has just 15–20 days of oil left, after US pressure helped halt Venezuelan shipments and Mexico’s Pemex suspended a delivery. The shortage has already fueled near-daily blackouts and fuel rationing. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government provides oil to Cuba via contracts with Pemex and via humanitarian aid mechanisms, the latter she said would continue.

The order tightens a blockade strategy that leverages economic collapse and humanitarian crisis under the guise of national security.

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sdv

30th January 2026, 14:24

The Cuba Libre documentary in the first couple of episodes did a very good job of showing Cuban history pre 1959. The history of Cuba through the slave trade, the American occupation, the Great Depression and the 1950s. In these episodes I think it gave a balanced perspective showing the view points of Cubans from all sides of the political spectrum.

The way it depicted things post 1959 though was very bias. In those episodes it prioritised a very pro Miami, Pro Washington, Anti Castro perspective. This is especially the case in the episodes that deal with the 80s and 90s during Cuba's special period. It blames everything that went wrong on Castro and the Cuban military and fails to even talk about the massive impact the Cuban Embargo had on the Cuban economy. It talked about alleged Cuban interference in America's political system(American intelligence officer mentioning it) but failed to mention the multiple cases of U.S efforts to destabilise Cuba.

Most importantly in the Castro episodes it failed to show the international perspective on Castro and focused exclusively on the American and Miami perspective. It just mentioned brief Cuba's involvement in Angola, and failed to go any deeper into that and Cuba's major contribution to the fight against Apartheid. It did not show how world leaders from the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa such as Nelson Mandela viewed Cuba and how Cuba and Castro were incredibly popular in most of the developing world for their struggle against Apartheid and Medical Internationalism.

So all in all, I think about the first 6 episodes was well researched, well done, and then after that things started to go down hill a little
(Review for a Reddit thread of this documentary, which is no longer available)

Cuba is not a threat to the USA. Why is Trump gaslighting us and insisting it is, and now actively is choosing to destroy and take over the country? What does the USA plan to do with Cuba? (It already has Guantanamo Bay there, a place where it illegally imprisons and tortures people.) Is Trump simply appeasing his Cuban supporters in Florida?

sdv

30th January 2026, 14:34

Cuba and the Cameraman (documentary on Netflix)
Life in Cuba over the course of 45 years, from the cautious optimism of the early 1970s to the harrowing 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union and the 2016 death of Fidel Castro. The focus is on three families and their growth and struggle. (The cameraman visits Cuba every 5 years.)

It really is delightful. The cameraman befriends Castro and shows a personal side to him. He gets permission to visit Castro in his dying days and is the last person to take photographs of him. The documentary is personal rather than political, although politics is and always has been a part of life in Cuba.

One of the many things that struck me was how Cuba is an automobile culture, like the USA. They love their cars! If ever a country was in need of electric vehicles to reduce the dependency on oil, it is Cuba!

For those who do not know, people in Cuba get free housing if they cannot afford to pay rent, free medical care, free education ...

Ravenlocke

9th February 2026, 00:33

Dr Parveen Yograj

Replying to
@forallcurious
𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽 𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲
Yes, it's true that doctors and researchers in Cuba have developed a lung cancer vaccine—specifically, the therapeutic vaccine known as CIMAvax-EGF (often called Cimavax).
This immunotherapy was developed by the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) in Havana, Cuba. It targets non-small cell lung cancer (the most common type) by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies against epidermal growth factor (EGF), a protein that helps cancer cells grow. The vaccine doesn't prevent lung cancer in healthy people (it's not a preventive vaccine like those for viruses); instead, it's a treatment for advanced stages (IIIB/IV) to help control the disease, extend survival, and improve quality of life, often as maintenance therapy after chemotherapy.
Key facts: It has been in use in Cuba since around 2011, approved there for adult patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
Clinical trials (including Phase III and IV) in Cuba showed it to be safe with minimal side effects, and it extended survival in many patients (e.g., some studies reported months to years longer survival compared to standard care alone, especially in younger patients).
It's approved in several countries (e.g., Cuba, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Paraguay).
Thousands of patients have received it worldwide (over 5,000 reported in earlier data), including in Cuba where it's provided free or at very low cost.
In the US, it's not yet fully approved by the FDA for general use, but Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in New York has conducted clinical trials (starting around 2016–2017) through a historic US-Cuba collaboration, and it's available to eligible patients in those trials. Ongoing research explores combinations with other immunotherapies and preventive potential in high-risk groups.
Recent updates (as of 2025–2026) show continued interest, including real-world use studies confirming safety and effectiveness, joint ventures (e.g., with Russia), and availability for medical tourism in Cuba for lung and other cancers.
Claims sometimes exaggerate it as a "cure" or universal preventive—it's not—but the core statement that Cuban doctors/researchers developed a lung cancer vaccine is accurate and well-documented in scientific literature, clinical trials, and partnerships like with Roswell Park.
#MedTwitter #MedEd #MedX #cancercure #CancerAwareness #cancerresearch
@IhabFathiSulima

@drkeithsiau

@DrAkhilX

@drabdulhameed07

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Cuba invented a vaccine for lung cancer and Americans have to violate multiple laws and risk imprisonment to obtain it. Ritchie Torres fully supports the embargo on Cuba. That's not hypothetical, that's real. He's just throwing out the most insane propaganda to try to launder his genocidal Zionism and AIPAC cuckery

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Americans are breaking US law and facing imprisonment to go to Cuba for the cancer vaccine that saves their lives. 9/11 first responders cast away by the US system go to Cuba to receive high quality free healthcare: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1866621048843641341

Depraved scum genocidal Zionists like Ritchie Torres see this actual real life mass murder of American citizens due to an embargo, and he gleefully supports it.

Then he turns around and conjures up a lunatic hypothetical to do an own on BDS. "ummm what if Israel invented a cancer cure though. ummmm"

These scum have zero shame.

look at the reaction of this 9/11 first responder, many of whom like her are from that Zionist **** Ritchie Torres' own district, when she finds out the life-saving medicine she needs is available at a fraction of the price in Cuba: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1866621735036239980 Torres wants her to suffer and die. Not in a bull**** Zionist hypothetical fantasy world, but in reality, right now.

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Ravenlocke

9th February 2026, 02:06

Sputnik Mundo

Translated from Spanish
🇲🇽🇨🇺 Two ships depart from Mexico carrying humanitarian aid destined for Cuba

📦 The Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) of Mexico reported that the vessels Papaloapan and Isla Holbox set sail from the state of Veracruz with more than 814 tons of supplies intended for the civilian population of the largest of the Antilles.

🥫 The first vessel is transporting essential food items, including liquid milk, meat products, cookies, beans, rice, tuna in water, sardines and vegetable oil, as well as personal hygiene articles (approximately 536 tons in total). In the case of the Isla Holbox, just over 277 tons of powdered milk were loaded.

💬 "They are expected to arrive at their destination in four days. We inform you that more than 1,500 tons of powdered milk and beans remain pending to be sent," the Foreign Ministry stated in its communiqué.

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Ravenlocke

9th February 2026, 02:09

CODEPINK

🇨🇺 The US is trying to starve 10 million Cubans.

We are bringing 2,500lbs of lentils to Cuba to break this criminal and genocidal blockade.

LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA NOW

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Vicus

9th February 2026, 19:25

US offensive strangling Cuba: neo-Monroeism risks backfiring at home - Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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As Trump escalates economic warfare against Cuba, the administration revives a familiar regime-change logic rooted in pressure and economic strangulation. History teaches that such strategies deepen suffering without guaranteeing regime collapse. The consequences may reverberate far beyond Havana, reshaping US relations across Latin America and ethnopolitical relations at home.

Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions.

US President Donald Trump has just escalated Washington’s long-standing economic war against Cuba by declaring a “national emergency” (another one!) aimed at sanctioning and tariffing any country that supplies the island with oil. Mexico, potentially Cuba’s largest supplier after Venezuela’s operations were curtailed, has already temporarily suspended shipments. The goal is clear enough: to push the Cuban economy over the edge, generating social unrest, and thereby pushing regime change.

There has long been an American embargo but one should not presume this is merely a tightening of it; rather, it is an attempt at full-spectrum economic asphyxiation this time.

Havana has responded predictably: President Miguel Díaz-Canel rejected Trump’s threats to “make a deal before it is too late,” insisting that “no one tells us what to do,” while Cuban officials warn that a complete fuel cutoff would be catastrophic for infrastructure and basic services. Experts warn that this would amount to a real blockade, with tremendous humanitarian consequences.

This escalation is part of a broader pattern in Trump’s second presidency, with hawkish Marco Rubio as Secretary of State: I’ve been describing it since 2024 as neo-Monroeism. It marks a new stage in Washington’s continental security doctrine, blending counterterrorism rhetoric, narco-politics, and elastic justifications for power projection across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thus far, naval buildups in the Caribbean, sanctions, and threats have been targeting Cuba, without signs of a plan to invade, but history suggests that intimidation often precedes escalation: we’ve seen this with Venezuela, recently, where there has been no occupation so far, but a military invasion to kidnap the President, and possible covert CIA and special forces presence/infiltration.

Cuba sits squarely within this New Cold War dynamic. Washington’s pressure campaign is unfolding against the backdrop of growing Chinese economic and technological engagement in the Caribbean, something I pointed out back in 2020. US dominance in the Caribbean had been near-total since 1898, and any erosion of that status is perceived in Washington as intolerable. From Washington’s perspective, strangling Cuba economically is also about signaling to Beijing that the Caribbean remains an American lake.

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Ravenlocke

11th February 2026, 01:15

Réseau International

Translated from French
Russia confirms its oil supply to Cuba despite threats from the United States

The Russian government confirmed on Thursday that it will continue to supply crude oil to Cuba, in a clear gesture of economic support in the face of the intensified illegal blockade by the United States.

#Cuba #blocus #ÉtatsUnis #Russie #pétrole

https://x.com/reseau_internat/status/2021172523182743988

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Vicus

11th February 2026, 13:24

China Reaffirms Cuba Support Amid Power Outages

Beijing backs Havana against U.S. blockade, pledging aid within its capacities.

On Wednesday, China reiterated its political support for Cuba amid widespread power outages on the island and ongoing U.S. oil blockade.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said Beijing “firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and security” and “resolutely opposes inhumane actions and behaviors that deprive the Cuban people of their right to subsistence and development.” Lin added that China “will provide support and assistance to Cuba within its capacities.”

When asked about possible concrete aid, including fuel supplies or financial support, Lin avoided detailing specific measures, noting that the content of any cooperation must be discussed with “the competent authorities” and handled “through bilateral channels.”

The remarks come as Cuba experiences generalized power outages linked to difficulties in its electricity system, and as Beijing renews calls for Washington to lift its 60-year blockade.

China has publicly urged the United States to “immediately end the blockade, sanctions and any form of coercive measures against Cuba.”

In recent weeks, the Chinese government announced shipments of food assistance, including a cargo of 90,000 tons of rice, along with an “emergency financial assistance” line worth US$80 million. In 2024, Beijing had already granted Cuba an additional US$100 million in aid.

Support was also reiterated at the diplomatic level during recent high-level meetings. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi voiced opposition to the “interference of external forces” during talks in Beijing with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

Rodriguez’s visit to the Chinese capital formed part of a broader tour aimed at securing backing from Havana’s traditional allies, as Cuba confronts economic and energy challenges intensified by the U.S. blockade.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/china-reaffirms-cuba-support-amid-power-outages/

Vicus

12th February 2026, 16:31

Russia Confirms Talks With Cuba on Oil Shipments Amid U.S. Blockade - today

Moscow is weighing energy support for the Caribbean country.

On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Russia is in talks with Cuba to finalize shipments of oil and fuel to the island, amid the tightening of the economic embargo imposed by the United States for more than half a century. He said Moscow is evaluating various energy support options but declined to provide public details for “understandable reasons.”

“Throughout these days we have been in contact with our Cuban friends and have been discussing options to help them,” Peskov reiterated, emphasizing that energy cooperation with Havana is part of a historic relationship of solidarity.

The Russian Embassy in Cuba had previously announced that a forthcoming shipment of oil and petroleum products is being prepared as humanitarian aid, aimed at easing the energy crisis affecting the Caribbean nation.

The U.S. embargo has severely limited the island’s ability to access fuel on the international market, leading to prolonged blackouts and affecting the daily lives of millions of citizens.

Previously, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries that supply fuel to Cuba. Peskov, however, ruled out that Russia is seeking direct confrontation with the United States over the issue.

“We would not want any kind of escalation. But, on the other hand, at this moment we practically have no trade whatsoever with the United States,” he said, noting that bilateral relations are already virtually paralyzed due to previous sanctions.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was more forceful, describing Washington’s measures as an “energy blockade” against Cuba.

“The actions of external forces seeking to deepen the energy crisis in Cuba, including the suspension of air communications with the island, are aimed, among other things, at provoking public discontent and discomfort among foreign citizens,” she said, adding that the U.S. strategy toward Cuba violates basic principles of international law and the sovereignty of peoples.

Moscow’s announcement adds to other gestures of international support for Cuba, which in recent months has received backing from countries such as China and Mexico.

For Havana, energy cooperation with Russia represents not only immediate relief but also a reaffirmation of its independent foreign policy and its strategic alliances.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/russia-confirms-talks-with-cuba-on-oil-shipments-amid-u-s-blockade/

sdv

12th February 2026, 20:16

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/10/its-time-to-talk-about-cuba-and-puerto-rico-too

A 2020 article about Cuba and Puerto Rico ... eye-opening, and Trump's plans for Gaza are not surprising when you look at what the USA has done to these two places. The criticism of Cuba is hypocritical, and ironically one of the notorious jails where the USA imprisons and tortures people it captures is in Cuba.

bojancan

13th February 2026, 22:12

My opinion... what US is doing to Cuba for decades... specially NOW... is the same what they were and doing Israel to Palestine... but much more sophisticatedly and insidious!!!!!
How can American people are still so quiet and so numb...............

Cuba's U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government
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Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Trump administration has also threatened new tariffs against any nation that sends fuel to Cuba, which has been under a U.S. trade embargo since 1962. These measures have caused fuel shortages and widespread blackouts, while the cost of food and transportation has skyrocketed. "This is a massive violation of human rights," says Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the United Nations. "It's a massive violation of international law."

Ravenlocke

14th February 2026, 01:45

Ryan Rozbiani

BREAKING 🇨🇺

A massive fire has erupted at Cuba’s largest oil refinery in Havana. Cause Unknown.

The incident comes amid a severe national fuel shortage linked to the ongoing U.S. embargo. The facility serves as a key unloading point for oil shipments from Mexico.

https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/2022431068755034292

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Ravenlocke

14th February 2026, 20:55

wrenevans

Vietnam has transferred 250 tons of rice to support Cuba while affirming to help Cuba gradually achieve food self-sufficiency.

https://vnexpress.net/viet-nam-chuyen-250-tan-gao-ho-tro-cuba-dam-bao-an-ninh-luong-thuc-5041166.html

https://x.com/wrenevans217208/status/2022603901669904827

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Ravenlocke

17th February 2026, 18:09

🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 reposted

No Cold War

Feb 16
🛑BREAKING NEWS: The "Global Bridge" for Cuba is now a reality

Mexico officially becomes the world's gas station for humanitarian aid. 🇲🇽✈️

President Claudia Sheinbaum has just confirmed that any aircraft, regardless of its origin, will be allowed to land and refuel on Mexican soil if its final destination is to deliver aid to the island. 🇨🇺

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🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉

Mexico just became the world’s gas station for human decency. Let Donald “Caligula” Trump try to tariff that.

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/2023506894246302094

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Ravenlocke

17th February 2026, 20:00

Power to the People ☭🕊

Cuba speaking at the UN special committee:

"The U.S. is attempting to overcome our sovereignty. It is trying to impose through force, threats, and coercion its own neocolonialist capitalist interests. We will not cede to blackmail. We will continue to defend our independence.”

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Ravenlocke

17th February 2026, 20:02

Drop Site

🇬🇹 🇨🇺 Guatemala will phase out its nearly 30-year partnership with Cuban medical brigades, withdrawing 412 healthcare workers through 2026 as contracts expire,
@bellybeastcuba
report.

The Guatemalan Health Ministry said the decision came after a “technical analysis,” and was made in order to strengthen the national system. However, it follows months of escalating US pressure on governments that benefit from Cuba’s overseas medical missions, and Guatemala now joins the Bahamas, Paraguay, and Guyana in scaling back or ending similar agreements, Al Mayadeen reported.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has led the campaign to portray the program as exploitative, describing it as “forced labor.” and imposing visa restrictions on foreign officials connected to it.

Cuba has deployed medical personnel to more than 160 countries since 1963, making the missions central to its foreign policy and a major revenue source.

In Guatemala, Cuban doctors have served rural and Indigenous communities since 1998. The country’s officials promise a phased replacement plan, though questions remain over whether and how soon gaps in underserved areas can be filled, according to Al Mayadeen.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2023623552063160646

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Ravenlocke

17th February 2026, 20:04

Arturo Dominguez

A week ago, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez announced that all remaining hospitals in Cuba without solar power systems would be receiving them soon. That process has already begun. Houses in rural areas are also slated to have solar panels installed soon. The systems are from China.

https://x.com/extremearturo/status/2023560853446889581

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Ravenlocke

17th February 2026, 20:11

Rania Khalek

Trump is strangling 10 million people in Cuba with a medieval siege and it’s no longer making headlines.

From Gaza to Cuba, they’re normalizing genocide all around. What a sick media culture.

If the elites who control the narrative had to live like Palestinians or Cubans for even one day, just imagine how different our news feeds would look.

https://x.com/RaniaKhalek/status/2023724762640396563

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bojancan

20th February 2026, 00:50

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the Trump-Rubio energy blockade on Cuba, and the catastrophic human toll it has already taken.

Feb, 19
Trump is manufacturing humanitarian crisis in Cuba
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Ravenlocke

21st February 2026, 19:08

Mega Geopolitics

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇨🇺🇷🇺 Putin orders Russia to break US oil blockade of Cuba

Russian tanker SEA HORSE is carrying nearly 200,000 barrels of Russian fuel and is reportedly en route to Cuba, in an attempt to breach the US blockade.

The vessel is currently sailing the Atlantic Ocean.

https://x.com/MegaGeopolitics/status/2025192595299643437

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Ravenlocke

21st February 2026, 19:09

Monitor𝕏

🇷🇺🇨🇺🇺🇸⚡️- An oil tanker 'Sea horse' is enroute to Cuba from Russia carrying urgently needed Russian fuel for Cuba, the shipment could become a direct threat to the full US blockade aimed at restricting oil shipments to Cuba. - Bloomber reports

https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/2025159474848174168

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Ravenlocke

21st February 2026, 19:33

Max Blumenthal

This oil is de facto humanitarian aid for a population under imperial siege

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2025226160548753722

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Ravenlocke

21st February 2026, 19:49

David Adler

Do US Americans know that — every single year at the General Assembly of the United Nations — the *entire world* votes to condemn our country for the criminal blockade of Cuba?

Not just “Communists.” Not just the “Global South.” The entire world.

https://x.com/davidrkadler/status/2025246108545323157

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bojancan

21st February 2026, 20:04

This is another softer long lasting gen.....
Trump, Narco.. are not different from their boss Bibi... how can these kind of human beings prosper.... I am angry!

Feb, 21
WION
10.3M subscribers

US Energy Blockade Causing Frequent Power Cuts in Cuba | WION NEWS
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Cuba is facing frequent power cuts as the United States’ energy blockade continues to strain the island’s electricity supply. The ongoing restrictions have worsened the nation’s energy crisis, affecting households, businesses, and essential services.

bojancan

23rd February 2026, 04:21

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power, written with Noam Chomsky.

Vijay is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He also appeared in the films Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017)

Vijay Prashad EXPOSES The "Narco Rubio" Hypocrisy
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00:00 Trump is trying to starve Cuba of fuel
01:29 Goal is to shut hospitals and transport down
01:52 China, Russia are stepping in to help
02:18 Why Vijay calls him "Narco Rubio"
02:34 How HSBC laundered literal briefcases of cash
03:51 Capitalism is founded on criminality
04:34 Bombing “narco traffickers” kills civilians
05:01 Solar power and maroons in the “Black Islands”
06:29 Video of Trump calling Cuba a failed nation
08:01 Vijay breaks down Trump’s three lies

Viijay Prashad HUMILIATES Marco Rubio: "He's Not Even Cuban!"
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00:00 Marco Rubio running things and playing Trump
00:43 Video: Rubio blames anti-colonial uprisings for "decline"
02:14 Rubio: We want our allies “strong” and “proud”
03:07 Vijay on Rubio not being Cuban
04:06 Link to Bannon’s rhetoric on “the great white hope”
05:18 Racism akin to KKK, deeply rooted in US history
07:59 Hitler looked to the US for inspiration
09:44 KKK lineage more bathed in antisemitism than acknowledged

Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 00:22

Al Mayadeen English

#BREAKING | Four people traveling on a US-registered speedboat were killed and six others were injured by the Cuban Coast Guard on Wednesday, Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior said in a statement.

The Ministry said a Border Guard Troops patrol vessel carrying five personnel moved in to identify the speedboat. According to Cuban authorities, those on board the boat opened fire first, wounding the commander of the Cuban patrol craft, prompting the troops to return fire.

"As a result of the clash... on the foreign side, four aggressors were killed and six others were wounded," the Ministry said, adding that the injured were evacuated and received medical assistance.

Officials reported that the vessel was spotted inside Cuban territorial waters after coming within one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel in Cayo Falcones, part of the Corralillo municipality in Villa Clara province. The boat was registered in Florida under the number FL7726SH.

#Cuba #UnitedStates #News #AlMayadeen

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DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸🇨🇺🇻🇪 The U.S. Treasury Department has announced it will ease restrictions on Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba, citing humanitarian reasons.

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Reuters

US says it will allow resale of Venezuelan oil to Cuba http://reut.rs/3MuCJrt

https://x.com/Reuters/status/2026789379297923192

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 00:25

Al Mayadeen English

The #US is offering #Cuba relief from the devastating fuel crisis it created, using Venezuelan oil it seized after abducting Maduro, rerouted through traders it licensed.

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/2026745416604066285

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-chokes-cuba--then-offers-seized-venezuela-oil-as--humanit

US chokes Cuba, then offers seized Venezuela oil as 'humanitarian' aid

Washington has softened a sweeping ban on Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba, announcing a partial carve-out that allows Venezuelan crude to reach the island through US-approved channels.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Wednesday it would apply a "favorable licensing policy" toward specific license applications seeking to route Venezuelan-origin oil to Cuba for "commercial and humanitarian use."

The announcement came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American who has spent his political career pursuing regime change in Havana, sat in closed-door talks with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders in Saint Kitts and Nevis, where the humanitarian fallout from Washington's own pressure campaign had become the unavoidable subject of the summit.

The mechanics

What Washington announced is narrower than the headline suggests. The favorable licensing policy applies only to transactions that bypass the Cuban state, directing oil toward private businesses and individuals unaffiliated with the government.

The Commerce Department simultaneously clarified that its existing License Exception SCP, "Support for the Cuban People," already permits gas and petroleum exports to Cuba's private sector without requiring separate OFAC authorization.

Cuba's energy infrastructure, its national grid, distribution networks, and import terminals, is state-operated. A permission that excludes the entities that actually run the power sector cannot address the crisis on the scale it demands.

Following January's aggression on Caracas, Washington assumed control of Venezuela's oil export proceeds, channelling payments into US-controlled Treasury accounts. The crude being discussed is effectively seized Venezuelan oil, to be routed through a handful of US-licensed traders, on Washington's terms, through Washington's intermediaries, as an act of "humanitarian" concern.

Decades of blockade, sharpened to a crisis

Cuba's energy collapse did not unravel overnight. The US embargo, first imposed in the early 1960s, has for decades restricted the island's access to capital, medicine, and fuel. Cuba had relied on Venezuela for roughly half its fuel needs, an arrangement that collapsed when US forces raided Caracas on January 3, abducting President Nicolas Maduro and severing Havana's principal energy lifeline.

An executive order signed by Trump on January 29 then designated Cuba "an unusual and extraordinary threat," warning that countries exporting oil to the island could face punitive tariffs.

The results have been swift and severe, with blackouts stretching up to 20 hours, shuttered schools, gutted public transport, and hospitals running on rationed fuel. The UN Secretary-General had warned earlier this month that essential services could collapse if oil supplies were not restored.

CARICOM's warning

It was this trajectory that brought the Cuba question to a head in Saint Kitts and Nevis. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness warned that further deterioration in Cuba would ripple across the Caribbean, triggering migration flows and regional instability. "Humanitarian suffering serves no one," he said. "A prolonged crisis in Cuba will not remain confined to Cuba."

Rubio has publicly softened his regime-change rhetoric since taking office, and Trump has held off on measures pushed by hardliners such as blocking remittances. But the administration has also been reported to be actively seeking Cuban insiders who might help dislodge the government by year's end.

Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 00:31

Al Mayadeen English

With four killed after infiltrating #Cuba's territorial waters, how far is the #US willing to go to make use of this incident to intensify pressure on the battered island nation?

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/2026750413408481716

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-speedboat-invades-cuba-territorial-waters--resulting-in-f

US speedboat invades Cuba territorial waters, resulting in fatal clash
Cuba’s coast guard fatally shot four individuals and wounded six others who were traveling aboard a US-registered illegal speedboat during an exchange of gunfire in Cuban waters, the Interior Ministry in Havana said Wednesday.

In a statement posted on X by the Cuban Embassy in Washington, Cuba’s Interior Ministry said, "On the morning of February 25, 2026, an illegal speedboat was detected in the territorial waters of Cuba. The vessel, registered in Florida, USA, number FL7726SH, approached to within one nautical mile [from the shore] of Villa Clara province.

When a Cuban patrol boat with five Border Guard personnel approached the speedboat to verify the identities of those on board, the Ministry said the crew opened fire, striking and injuring the Cuban commander of the patrol vessel.

Clash leaves four dead, six wounded

The Ministry’s statement added, “As a consequence of the confrontation, as of the time of this report, four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six injured.” Those wounded were evacuated and given medical assistance, the statement said.

Officials did not immediately release details on the identities of the people aboard the speedboat or their motivations for being in Cuban waters.

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The shooting took place against the backdrop of heightened tensions between the United States and Cuba. Havana has been grappling with a deepening fuel crisis, which officials and analysts say has been worsened by US actions that have limited Venezuelan oil shipments to the island, Venezuela being a longstanding ally in the region.

In its statement, the Cuban Ministry alluded to these broader strains, saying that “in the face of current challenges, Cuba reaffirms its determination to protect its territorial waters” and safeguard its sovereignty.

Trump intensifies Cuba's suffering under sanctions

The United States first imposed an arms embargo on Cuba in 1958, and by October 1960, it had expanded into a full trade embargo that restricted nearly all economic interaction between the two countries after the Cuban Revolution, making it one of the longest‑standing sanctions regimes in modern history.

Over the decades, the embargo was codified and strengthened, including through the Helms–Burton Act signed on March 12, 1996, which extended the embargo to penalize foreign companies doing business with Cuba.

On January 29, 2026, US President Donald J. Trump signed a new executive order declaring a national emergency regarding Cuba and authorizing tariffs on countries that supply oil to the island, a policy aimed at tightening the longstanding sanctions and restricting fuel imports.

The US move has had immediate consequences on Cuba’s fuel supply. Mexico, which had become one of Cuba’s largest fuel suppliers, especially after a shortfall in Venezuelan exports, halted oil shipments over fears of US trade penalties.

Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 00:42

Al Mayadeen English

#Canada announced approximately USD$5.8 million in food aid for #Cuba, channeled through the #WFP and #UNICEF, bypassing the Cuban government

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/2026777469462749610

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/canada-announces--8mln-in-food-aid-to-cuba-amid-deepening-cr

Canada announces $8mln in food aid to Cuba amid deepening crisis

Canada announced on Wednesday a CAN$8 million (approximately USD$5.8 million) humanitarian aid package for Cuba, as the island nation grapples with severe fuel shortages, widespread blackouts, and a worsening economic crisis exacerbated by a US-imposed blockade.

According to Canada's Foreign Ministry, the funds will be directed through the United Nations World Food Programme and UNICEF, with the explicit aim of ensuring assistance "reaches the Cuban people directly," bypassing the Cuban government.

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The crisis has been significantly compounded by the sudden US halt of Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba. Following the January 3 abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by US forces, Caracas was prevented from maintaining its longstanding role as Cuba's primary crude oil supplier.

The loss of that energy lifeline has pushed Cuba deeper into economic turmoil, intensifying fuel scarcity and prolonged power cuts that have taken a heavy toll on the population. On Wednesday, Washington sought to ease some of the pressure by announcing a partial rollback of sanctions on seized Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba, framing the move as supporting "the Cuban people."

Caribbean leaders have also raised alarm over the deteriorating humanitarian situation, warning that instability in Cuba could ripple across the wider region.

Canada's longstanding ties with Havana

Canada's decision to step in with aid reflects a diplomatic posture that sets it apart from its southern neighbor. Unlike the United States, Canada never severed ties with Cuba following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, maintaining continuous diplomatic relations with Havana ever since.

Economically, the two countries share a well-established relationship, where Cuba ranks as Canada's largest merchandise export market in the Caribbean and Central America, and Canada has historically been Cuba's second-largest source of direct foreign investment, with interests spanning mining, energy, and agriculture.

Regional, international response

Canada's pledge comes as part of a broader international response to Cuba's humanitarian emergency. Mexico, Chile, and Russia have each announced food or fuel assistance in recent weeks, while the United States has separately allocated aid to be delivered through church intermediaries rather than state channels.

"As the people of Cuba face significant hardship, Canada stands in solidarity and is providing targeted assistance to help address urgent needs," Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said in Wednesday's statement.

Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 01:24

Max Blumenthal

Impressive that the crew of the fateful US boat to Cuba managed to evade Coast Guard monitoring

How’d they do that

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2026788642169958903

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 01:30

COMBATE |🇵🇷

NOW: Cuba's Ministry of Interior — a Florida-registered speedboat violated Cuban territorial waters and opened fire on a border patrol vessel.

4 aggressors killed. 6 wounded. Cuban commander injured.

Investigations are ongoing.

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2026735769692315692

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 01:32

El Necio

Translated from Spanish

NOW: The NYT reveals, after consulting a U.S. official, that the speedboat was only the first one, as part of a Flotilla plan that sought to illegally insert itself into Cuba and, as we now know, with weapons.

The most interesting part is that they were warned about it themselves 10 days ago 👇

https://x.com/ElNecio_Cuba/status/2026789322020560921

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 01:34

Agustín Antonetti

Translated from Spanish
🇺🇸🇨🇺 | NOW — The United States has sent a USV (an unmanned military vessel) to the area of the attack carried out by the Cuban terrorist regime.

It's just about 30km from the coast of Cuba. This attack will not go unpunished.

https://x.com/agusantonetti/status/2026826586998091926

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 01:41

El Necio

Translated from Spanish
THE ACTION AGAINST CUBA was premeditated and announced: the insertion of the speedboat today with weapons and ammunition was prepared as a response to the peaceful Humanitarian Aid Flotilla.

This post is from February 15:
@MarioJPenton
, spokesperson for the most extremist groups in Miami, threatened that if the Humanitarian Aid Flotilla came, they too would come with their speedboats from Miami.

THIS WAS ON FEBRUARY 15 🚨

They have already begun to carry out their threat, those speedboats have already started arriving, but loaded with weapons and ammunition, just like they did in the 90s to attack the population.

THEY THEMSELVES ANNOUNCED IT: let them take responsibility 🇨🇺

https://x.com/ElNecio_Cuba/status/2026752589891596329

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 02:24

Drop Site

🚨 BREAKING: Cuba Says Armed Terror Infiltration Foiled Off Villa Clara Coast

Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior says it thwarted an armed infiltration attempt near Cayo Falcones, Villa Clara, after neutralizing a Florida-registered speedboat carrying 10 armed men allegedly intent on carrying out “terrorist” actions.

Authorities say they seized assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails, body armor, telescopic sights, and camouflage uniforms. Six suspects were detained and identified as Amijail Sánchez González, Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, Conrado Galindo Sariol, José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló, Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara, and Roberto Azcorra Consuegra. One man, Michel Ortega Casanova, was killed; three others remain unidentified.

All are Cuban nationals residing in the United States, officials said. The government claims most have known criminal and violent records.

Notably, Amijail Sánchez González and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez are also listed on Cuba’s National List of Persons and Entities Linked to Terrorism, published this week in the Official Gazette. That updated registry includes 62 individuals and 20 entities allegedly tied to terrorism and cites UN Security Council Resolution 1373 as part of its legal basis.

Cuban authorities also detained Duniel Hernández Santos inside the country, accusing him of being sent from the U.S. to receive the infiltrators. Officials say he has confessed.

The investigation remains ongoing, according to the Ministry.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2026839497040683507

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Vicus

26th February 2026, 08:08

sdv

26th February 2026, 10:41

Cuba Repels Armed Speedboat in Territorial Waters

A Florida-registered speedboat, bearing the folio FL7726SH, was detected on February, 25 unlawfully navigating within Cuban territorial waters, an intrusion that prompted immediate action from Cuban authorities.

The vessel approached within 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, located in Falcones Key, in the Corralillo municipality, Villa Clara province.

A surface unit from the Border Guard Troops of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, comprised of 5 combatants, approached the infringing vessel to carry out identification protocols. However, upon their approach, individuals aboard the speedboat opened fire against the Cuban border guards.

The commander of the Cuban vessel was injured during the exchange of fire, highlighting the aggressive nature of the intrusion.

As a direct consequence of the confrontation, and as of the close of this report, four of the foreign aggressors were killed and six were injured, according the information afforded by an official statatement of Cuban Ministry of the Interior.

The injured individuals from the foreign vessel were subsequently evacuated and received medical assistance.

According to the first reports, the vessel did not obey when it was stopped in Cuban territorial waters. In this sense, Cuba reaffirmed its firm stance on defending its territorial integrity and sovereignty against all forms of external illicit incursions, on the basis of national and regional stability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3keJxgGIq0

https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-repels-u-s-armed-speedboat/

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxEJIOu7WhtD1NWxKmy6DmEspMiEodOY5w?si=pOfW4caMPi41tfpI

This confirms the above report.

Unlike the attacks from the US, not in its territorial waters, this is what Cuba does when there is a confrontation in its territorial waters:
The injured individuals from the foreign vessel were subsequently evacuated and received medical assistance.

Although this kind of aggression from Cubans living in Florida does not surprise me, it is bizarre behaviour. Perhaps going off on a tangent, but ot reminds me of the behaviour of that young lad who sneaked into Mar a Lago, armed, to 'attack the president'. Can people not tell the difference between online fantasy violence and real life?

Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 18:46

Cuban Embassy in US

Participants in Foiled Armed Infiltration in Villa Clara Identified

As part of the ongoing investigation into the armed attack against a patrol vessel of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, in the northeastern area of the El Pino channel, at Cayo Falcones, municipality of Corralillo, Villa Clara province, the following update is provided:

Authorities have confirmed that the intercepted speedboat, registered in the State of Florida under number FL7726SH, was carrying 10 armed individuals who, according to preliminary statements by those detained, intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.

The following items were seized: assault rifles, handguns, improvised explosive devices (Molotov cocktails), body armor, telescopic sights, and camouflage uniforms.

Based on preliminary questioning, the following detained individuals have been identified:
1.Amijail Sánchez González
2.Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez
3.Conrado Galindo Sariol
4.José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló
5.Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara
6.Roberto Azcorra Consuegra

Michel Ortega Casanova has been identified among the deceased. Efforts are ongoing to identify the remaining three individuals.

All participants are Cuban nationals residing in the United States. Most have prior records involving criminal and violent activity, including Amijail Sánchez González and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, who appear on Cuba’s National List of individuals and entities designated pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, international law, and Cuban domestic legislation. They are currently under criminal investigation and are wanted by Cuban authorities for their alleged involvement in the promotion, planning, organization, financing, support, or execution of terrorist acts in #Cuba or abroad.

In addition, Cuban national Duniel Hernández Santos was arrested within national territory. He had allegedly been sent from the United States to facilitate the landing and reception of the armed group and has confessed to his role.

The investigation remains ongoing until all facts have been fully established.

Cuban Ministry of the Interior

https://x.com/EmbaCubaUS/status/2026838618669531238

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 18:49

Tere Felipe

Translated from Spanish
🚨 Do you all see this? These two are Cristian Acosta and Ledián Padrón.

Yesterday they hopped on a speedboat from Miami with a single idea in mind: to head to Cuba to carry out acts of terro•rism. According to a source who spilled the beans to a Univisión journalist, they spent months training on a farm, with everything meticulously planned out.

However, the international press portrays them as if they were just simple “defenseless civilians.”

https://x.com/_TereFelipe_/status/2027013315231174911

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Michael Galant

One of the people detained from the boat in Cuba was reportedly Amijail Sánchez González, presumably the same Amijail Sánchez whose entire facebook profile is people setting fire to buildings and agricultural fields in Cuba.

https://x.com/michael_galant/status/2027016864384131358

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Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 18:52

TASS

The incident with a US-registered speedboat that entered Cuba’s territorial waters is a deliberate move by Washington to provoke tensions, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS:
https://vk.cc/cUPEOz

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2026929098363220128

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Russian diplomat calls incident in Cuban waters 'aggressive US provocation'

As Maria Zakharova stressed, the move is aimed at escalating the situation and triggering conflict

MOSCOW, February 26. /TASS/. The incident with a US-registered speedboat that entered Cuba’s territorial waters is a deliberate move by Washington to provoke tensions, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.

"It is an aggressive US provocation, aimed at escalating the situation and triggering conflict," the diplomat said.

As the Cuban Interior Ministry reported earlier, a speedboat registered in the US state of Florida entered the island's territorial waters. People on board opened fire at a Cuban patrol boat, who fired back. According to the ministry, four people were killed and six wounded among those aboard the US vessel. The commander of the Cuban border patrol was also injured.

Ravenlocke

26th February 2026, 19:16

Nick Turse

The Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated a top-secret memorandum titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba.” It described numerous false-flag operations that could be employed to justify a U.S. invasion.

Full story
@theintercept

https://x.com/nickturse/status/2027021197519606174

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2026, 19:47

COMBATE |🇵🇷

This is what the Trump administration is trying to starve to death

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2026, 19:49

BreakThrough News

At the direction of the U.S., the Honduran government under president Nasry Asfura has expelled its Cuban doctors from the country. The doctors were stationed at a free ophthalmological clinic in Colinas, Santa Bárbara and were part of the Operation Miracle program, which provided services to poor and vulnerable populations.

Medical brigades have become one Cuba's most critical sources of income in the face of the U.S. blockade.

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2027139672653381871

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2026, 20:07

Fox News

NEW: President Trump hints at a "friendly takeover" of Cuba:

"The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money, no anything right now."

"Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover Cuba.”

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2027445734287523992

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2026, 20:10

Max Blumenthal

The Cuban expat terrorists captured or killed while attempting to invade Cuba by boat had been training on an estate in Florida, and were part of a planned terror flotilla

How did they evade the US Coast Guard?

What did Marco Rubio know and when did he know it?

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2027153161824129055

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2026, 20:22

Drop Site

🇨🇺 NEW: Cuba’s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said that as soon as authorities detected the vessel had originated from U.S. territory — before the shooting confrontation unfolded — Cuba alerted and remained in contact with U.S. counterparts, including the State Department and the Coast Guard.

📌 He shared additional details on what Havana says was a thwarted armed infiltration attempt involving 10 people traveling on a Florida-registered vessel.

🔹 Cuban authorities say the boat was intercepted carrying assault rifles, a sniper rifle, pistols, Molotov cocktails, night-vision equipment, body armor, camouflage clothing, ammunition, combat rations and communications gear. Four of the 10 individuals are reported dead. The investigation is ongoing and officials say details remain preliminary.

🔹 Officials corrected an earlier identification error, removing one mistakenly named individual from the list of participants in the attempt.

🔹 Two of the suspects — Amijail Sánchez González and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez — were already on Cuba’s national terrorism list shared with the U.S. in 2023 and 2025. Cuba says it previously asked Washington for information about individuals on that list and has not received a response.

🔹 “This is not an isolated incident,” Fernández de Cossío said, saying that Cuba has in recent years warned of an “increase in violent and terrorist plots and actions against Cuba,” and a “prevailing sense of impunity among the organizers and perpetrators due to inaction.”

🔹 He said “anti-Cuban groups operating in the United States resort to terrorism as an expression of their hatred of Cuba and the impunity they believe they enjoy,” and noted that many past acts against Cuba were “organized, financed and executed from U.S. territory.”

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bojancan

27th February 2026, 20:38

US was always very suppressive country... we understand too.. they took land from native Indians in America and they made their own home... what do you see now with Trump too... they want do with Cuba the same.. and maybe with much more countries ... disgusting!!!
I SUPORT CUBA!! Period!

Feb, 25
Katie Halper
413K subscribers
“It’s Bullsh*t”: Cuban Journalist EXPOSES America’s Dirty Secret
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Havana-based journalist Liz Oliva Fernández and Cuban-American community activist Hebel Morales break down the human impact of fuel shortages and healthcare strain, and why Liz says normalization never changed the real strategy.

For more of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - / carrie-prejean-151599870

00:00 Fuel shortages in Havana disrupting every basic service
01:07 Online classes without power or internet
01:31 Healthcare system shifts to emergency-only
01:56 Doctors struggle to reach hospitals
02:49 Anxiety rising as food costs surge
03:51 Hebel on families abroad supporting Cuba
05:03 Hebel calls US policy toward Cuba a crime
05:24 Sick patients struggling to reach Havana hospitals
06:31 Hebel says crisis feels like Special Period again
08:04 Hebel announces Sunday blockade protest at Miami airport
09:32 Liz says she’s lived her whole life in crisis
10:41 Sanctions now more targeted and suffocating
11:29 Obama opened a window that Trump closed
12:58 Biden kept Trump Cuba policy
13:47 Liz calls Biden’s policy "bull****"
15:14 Democrats and Republicans are the same for Cuba
15:42 Liz says Obama normalization still attempt to overthrow Cuba
16:18 Why Cubans felt "seduced" by Obama
17:27 Forcing mothers to suffer for "freedom"

Liz Oliva Fernández is a Cuban journalist & documentary filmmaker based in Havana, & the co-founder of Belly of the Beast (https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/).

Join the Cuba convoy (https://nuestraamericaconvoy.org/).

Hebel Morales is a member of Miami Coalition Against the Blockade of Cuba and of Puentes de Amor.

Ravenlocke

2nd March 2026, 04:49

teleSUR TV

Translated from Spanish
🎥🇨🇺 | The Jesús Eliú Leiva tobacco factory in eastern Cuba remains operational and exporting thanks to photovoltaic systems. A symbol of resilience in the face of power outages due to the tightening of the U.S. blockade.

https://x.com/teleSURtv/status/2028259690749067283

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Ravenlocke

2nd March 2026, 04:52

teleSUR TV

Translated from Spanish

The Papaloapan and Huasteco ships from the Mexican Navy arrived at Havana Bay, loaded with more than a thousand tons of food intended to support the Cuban people amid the economic and energy crisis sweeping the island. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations, Josefina Vidal, confirmed the arrival and publicly thanked the solidarity of the Mexican government and people, who had already sent a first shipment weeks earlier.

https://x.com/teleSURtv/status/2028237956285403553

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sdv

2nd March 2026, 12:25

My personal take on the assault on Cuba is that Trump wants it to turn it into a 'settlement' for the elite, as in Gaza. It probably does have some strategic interest ... 'spy' centres and missile launch pads off the mainland so as not to endanger the mainland. But, the elite would see it as a paradise enclave for themselves, and the taking of it would be easy. With countries like Mexico coming to the aid of Cuba, the easy plan that Trump signed up for has become a lot more complicated. And he has no Israel to drop bombs and flatten the place.

Ravenlocke

4th March 2026, 21:09

David Adler

59m
Wow 🤯 Daniel Noboa's Ecuador 🇪🇨 — without citing a single cause — has just expelled the Cuban Embassy 🇨🇺 and declared *all* of its diplomatic personnel as persona non grata.

Outrageous, unprecedented, and deeply ominous for hemispheric affairs under the Donroe Doctrine.

https://x.com/davidrkadler/status/2029287857483862254

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Ravenlocke

5th March 2026, 02:02

Drop Site

⭕️ Cuban tanker cleared to load LPG in Venezuela after months searching for fuel

The tanker Eugenia Gas, part of Cuba’s coastal fleet and sailing under the Belize flag, received authorization on March 2 to load liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) at Puerto José, Venezuela, the first cargo of its kind by a Cuban vessel since late 2025, CiberCuba reports.

AIS tracking shows the ship spent nearly two months drifting across the Caribbean after failed attempts to obtain fuel in Jamaica and Curaçao, where ports feared potential U.S. sanctions for supplying Cuba.

The LPG—used widely for cooking on the island—is now being loaded at the Venezuelan port, 14ymedio reports. The shipment comes as Cuba faces a severe energy crisis, producing about 40,000 barrels of fuel daily while needing roughly 110,000, leaving much of the country struggling with shortages

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2029016564284998041

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Ravenlocke

7th March 2026, 00:14

EFE Noticias

Feb 16
Translated from Spanish
Spain promises Cuba food and medical supplies following the tightening of the embargo.

https://x.com/EFEnoticias/status/2023490681184932228

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Granma (English)

🇪🇸🇨🇺 💞 A new solidarity container was sent from Spain to #Cuba, destined for the hospital in Matanzas and the municipality of Marianao, Havana

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RTSG News

🚨🇪🇸🇨🇺🇺🇸 BREAKING: As the US intensifies efforts to oust Havana, Spain sends a new aid container to Cuba. Comes as Spain–US sink amid the Iran War base access dispute.

In 2025, Spanish customs data showed a 24-ton export to Cuba in the armaments category.

Follow:
@RTSG_News

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Ravenlocke

7th March 2026, 01:49

Cuban Embassy in US

🇨🇺🇯🇲Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba

Cuba regrets the decision of the government of Jamaica to cease medical cooperation, yielding to pressure from the U.S.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba reports that, on March 4, the Foreign Ministry of Jamaica communicated to our Embassy in that country the unilateral decision of its government to terminate the health cooperation agreement that has linked both nations for decades.

With this action, the government of Jamaica yields to the pressures of the government of the United States, which is not concerned about the health needs of the Caribbean brothers.

Cuba deeply regrets that in this way a history of fruitful and sustained collaboration is disregarded, one that has brought countless benefits to the Jamaican people, who are now deprived of receiving the basic and specialized health services that Cuban collaborators provided.

In response to the step taken by the government of Jamaica, the government of Cuba has made the sovereign decision to proceed with the return of the Cuban Medical Brigade. These health professionals leave behind an indelible mark and return to Cuba with the satisfaction of a duty fulfilled and the permanent willingness to assist wherever their spirit of solidarity is required.

Cuba’s work in Jamaica is an eloquent example of genuine cooperation. In the last 30 years alone, more than 4,700 Cuban collaborators have provided medical assistance on the Caribbean island. Currently, the Brigade was composed of 277 professionals whose work has had a tangible and profound impact on strengthening the Jamaican health system.

The historic results of this collaboration speak for themselves:
· More than 8,176,000 patients treated.
· 74,302 surgical procedures performed.
· 7,170 births attended.
· More than 90,000 lives saved.

Likewise, through the Operation Miracle program, present in Jamaica since 2010, the sight of nearly 25,000 Jamaicans has been restored or improved. Cuban cooperation has also been decisive in projects for the control and prevention of diseases such as malaria and in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The most recent example of this dedication was seen after the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which severely affected the island. In those difficult circumstances, the Cuban Medical Brigade remained firmly at their posts, many of its members working for more than 72 consecutive hours and actively joining the tasks of recovering hospitals and communities.

Faithful to the historic relations of brotherhood and solidarity that unite us with Jamaica, Cuba reaffirms its unwavering commitment to the Jamaican people, who will always be able to count on the selfless cooperation of Cuba.

Havana, March 6, 2026.

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Ravenlocke

7th March 2026, 01:57

The Wall Street Journal

Breaking: A federal prosecutor is pushing for criminal cases against Cuba's leaders, as President Trump eyes the country as his next target for regime change

https://x.com/WSJ/status/2029995503182655695

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Ravenlocke

7th March 2026, 01:58

Tamanisha J John

It should be noted that as the US calls for Cuban medical personnel to leave the different Caribbean countries, the US alternative is to staff its own military personnel in these countries medical institutions — rendering Caribbean states as non-sovereign, US security vassals:

https://x.com/TamanishaJohn/status/2030053237542228468

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Ravenlocke

12th March 2026, 04:49

José Oriol

Translated from Spanish
Thousands of Greeks are marching at this very moment in front of the United States embassy in Athens. They demand an end to the U.S. blockade against the Cuban people; that Cuba be removed from the spurious list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism"; they demand of the U.S.: "Hands off Cuba!"

https://x.com/JoseOriol5/status/2031839349331927408

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Cancillería de Cuba

Translated from Spanish
🇬🇷🇨🇺Thousands of protesters convened by the KKE gathered today in Athens to reject the aggressive U.S. policies against Cuba in a solidarity march along one of the capital's main avenues toward the U.S. embassy.

#CubaNoEstáSola

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Ravenlocke

13th March 2026, 20:39

The Wall Street Journal

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed that his government has been in talks with the Trump administration. The Cuban leader said the exchanges were “aimed at finding solutions through dialogue to the bilateral differences between our two nations.”

https://x.com/WSJ/status/2032463046744948774

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Ravenlocke

13th March 2026, 21:44

The Hill
@thehill
·
4h
Democrats file war powers resolution to prevent Trump from attacking Cuba without approval

https://x.com/thehill/status/2032503454548009203

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Cuban Embassy in US
@EmbaCubaUS
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3h
🇨🇺🇺🇸U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) introduced a War Powers Resolution to ensure any U.S. participation in hostilities against Cuba is explicitly authorized by Congress.

The resolution is privileged and may be called up for a vote after 10 days. President Trump has engaged in a military blockade of Cuba, and has recently threatened direct military action against Cuba.

https://x.com/EmbaCubaUS/status/2032525622006743359

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Ravenlocke

13th March 2026, 21:47

Dave Collum
@DavidBCollum
·
2h
We are so doomed now. I am not being funny. Listening to Lindsey Graham talk about killing people and watching Trump nod approvingly is too much. Potus is under a spell.

https://x.com/DavidBCollum/status/2032540586830332040

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Ravenlocke

13th March 2026, 21:50

Cuban Embassy in US
@EmbaCubaUS
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1h
🇨🇺📽️Regarding talks with the U.S. government, President
@DiazCanelB
stated:

- As has always been the practice of the Revolution’s leadership, we do not respond to campaigns aimed at manipulation or speculation.

- These are processes conducted with great discretion. They are lengthy processes that must first begin by establishing contacts, ensuring there are paths for dialogue, and confirming a willingness to engage in dialogue.

- All of that takes time, and only then can agendas be developed, negotiations begin, discussions take place, and agreements be reached—steps we are still far from, as we are in the initial phases of that process.

https://x.com/EmbaCubaUS/status/2032547245698973908

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Vicus

13th March 2026, 21:53

Mexican Navy Ships Arrive in Havana With Humanitarian Aid-today

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A Mexican Navy Ship in Havana, March 13, 2026.

Delivery of tons of food comes as Mexico reaffirms solidarity with Cuba.

“In their third stop in Cuba so far this year, the ARM Papaloapan, the ARM Huasteco and their crews confirm themselves as leading protagonists of the generous aid from the Mexican government and people,” Cuba’s ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martinez, said.

Shortly before, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted Mexico’s role as a reference point for Latin American solidarity with Cuba, emphasizing that the Mexican nation does not yield to pressure against his country.

In February, amid a context marked by the tightening of the U.S. blockade, the Mexican government also sent Cuba a shipment containing 1,193 tons of humanitarian aid.

More specifically, the ARM Papaloapan carried 1,078 tons of beans and powdered milk, while the ARM Huasteco transported 92 tons of beans and 23 tons of other food products.

That same month, Mexico also sent 814 tons of basic food products and hygiene supplies, demonstrating the bonds of fraternity that define Mexican foreign policy.

On March 13, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum denied malicious reports about the alleged commercialization of Mexican donations and said there are records showing the humanitarian aid reaching Cuban households directly.

“In no way will the solidarity of the brotherly Mexican people and the grateful reception of the Cuban people be tarnished by the slander of media outlets complicit in the crime represented by the U.S. blockade against the Cuban people,” he said on his Facebook account.

“The U.S. government’s inhumane measures have deprived Cuba of fuels, affecting its production capacity, basic services, and sources of livelihood for reasons related to interference, destabilization, and domination,” Martinez added.

On Jan. 29, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing authorities to impose tariffs on goods from countries that supply oil to Cuba, thereby aggravating the impact of an economic blockade that has been in force for more than 60 years.

Vicus comment:

Talks with Trump...how worked that for Russia,Venezuela, Iran...? prepare for the worst...

Vicus

13th March 2026, 22:01

Without Fuel Shipments

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The Cuban president links ongoing blackouts to U.S. energy blockade.

“It has been more than three months since any fuel ship has arrived in our country. We are working under very adverse conditions that have an immeasurable impact on the lives of all our people,” he warned, adding that his administration is implementing measures to respond to a prolonged blockade.

Regarding the chain of blackouts that have occurred in recent days, Diaz-Canel offered a technical explanation that places the crisis in its structural context.

During the day, Cuba generates electricity with photovoltaic solar energy — which covers between 49% and 51% of demand during hours of highest irradiation — and with associated gas from domestic crude oil extraction. At night, however, the national energy system depends exclusively on thermoelectric plants and gas.

Until last week, Cuba had reserves of diesel and fuel oil in two facilities used for distributed generation: the Moa engines and the Mariel engines. After three months without fuel imports, those reserves have been exhausted.

continue: https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-has-gone-over-3-months-without-fuel-shipments-diaz-canel/

Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 02:48

Acyn

Trump: Cuba, it's a beautiful island. Great weather. I will be having the honor of taking Cuba. Whether I free it, take it. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth

https://x.com/Acyn/status/2033649730300080291

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 02:49

Daniel Davis Deep Dive

A Clarion call: when the American president, without using cute language or subtlety, outright declares that he will take another sovereign country because he wants it, and there is no reaction — no outrage, no alarm — we are in deep trouble as a nation.

Trump took us to war without authorization, and against the constitution, in 2025 against Iran, fragrantly in violation of American and international law in Venezuela (by seizing their leader), both without cause, and now this full scale war against Iran in 2026, and nvr faces consequences.

There are no protest in the streets, there are no demonstrations of outrage in Congress — where it rightfully belongs — and now here he is turning his sites onto another sovereign country, Cuba, and just wants to “take it.“

Not even a pretending there are drug issues like with Venezuela, not pretending there are weapons of mass destruction like Iraq in 2003, not pretending there are nuclear weapons as in Iran today, just “take it.“

We are asleep as a nation, and this man is leading us into totalitarianism, and soon, no one will be able to stop him, and he will do whatever he wants.

We are watching Martin Niemoeller’s dark description of how Nazism rose in Germany play out before our very eyes, and instead of recognizing the danger approaching, we are silent.

Or complicit, as w Congress n friendly major media.

The day will come, however, when “they“ will come for us too. Don’t give yourself any false sense of security by thinking it’s only “them“ that Trump will break the law to go after —like Cuba, Venezuela, Iran. When that kind of lust for power goes unchecked, it will never end, and soon they will find new, domestic targets…

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists

https://x.com/DanielLDavis1/status/2033684958754312257

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 02:56

Drop Site

💢 Cuba reports an island-wide blackout Monday after a “complete disconnection” of the national electrical system, the Ministry of Energy and Mines said on X. Here’s what to know:

🔸 The shortages are a result of a U.S. blockade and pressure campaign targeting countries that supply Cuba with oil, after Donald Trump warned of tariffs on any nation selling fuel to the island.

🔸 President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Cuba has not received oil shipments for more than three months, leaving the grid reliant on solar, natural gas, and aging thermoelectric plants.

🔸The outage has affected the country’s ~11 million residents as authorities investigate the cause and begin restoration.

🔸 Hospitals have been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries as severe fuel and electricity shortages strain the healthcare system.

🔸 Cuba produces about 40% of its own petroleum, but it has not been enough as the electrical system continues to deteriorate.

🔸 This is the sixth nationwide blackout in the past 18 months in which the island’s power generation dropped to zero.

🔸 Restoration protocols are underway, but previous major outages this month took 16–72 hours to partially resolve.

Source: El Pais, AP

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2033636547984298406

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 17:53

Max Blumenthal

This harrowing on the ground report and interview documents the outcome of a sadistic crime against the people of Cuba

The levels of suffering and isolation in Cuba’s eastern regions is unprecedented since Trump imposed a full blockade on fuel

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2033937635702358174

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 19:00

Drop Site

⚡️ Cuba begins restoring power after nationwide grid collapse

Cuba’s energy ministry says parts of the national grid are coming back online, with electricity restored across a stretch from Pinar del Río in the west to Holguín/Las Tunas in the east.

▪️ Officials said microsystems are operating in eastern provinces including Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, and Granma.

▪️ Several power plant units have restarted or are in the process of coming back online.

▪️ The grid is still not fully restored, with recovery ongoing after the collapse.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2033914400118018332

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 19:22

Cancillería de Rusia 🇷🇺

Translated from Spanish
❗️We strongly condemn the attempts at interference in the internal affairs of #Cuba, the intimidations, and the application of illegal unilateral restrictive measures.

We will continue to provide Cuba with the necessary support, including material support.

📄 https://t.me/MAERusia/7495

https://x.com/mae_rusia/status/2033915360957616623

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Bill Ryan

17th March 2026, 20:16

Cuba reports an island-wide blackout Monday after a “complete disconnection” of the national electrical system, the Ministry of Energy and Mines said on X. https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/178044
A Russian woman living in Cuba told RT that there was a complete blackout on the island during night: people are running out of drinking water, and there's almost no mobile connection.

According to her, power outages have been happening frequently lately but such a large-scale one has not occurred before:
“The situation is catastrophic. Before this, there was no electricity for four days, and the city ran out of drinking water.”Landline phones don't work, just like mobile ones. Water, which is scarcely available in stores, is being conserved, and people are buying up any other drinks they can find.

She confirmed that there have been riots in some areas for more than a week. Three days ago, a group of protesters attacked the headquarters of the ruling Communist Party in the city of Morón.

Tourists who came to Cuba for a vacation are having trouble returning home: Varadero Airport has been operating with restrictions for over a month. The reason is a fuel crisis: due to the energy blockade, there's nowhere to get fuel for airplanes at the airport, and airlines have to solve the problem themselves by refueling in other countries.
DDGeopolitics/178044

Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 20:38

teleSUR TV

Translated from Spanish
Cuba reports significant advances in the recovery of its National Electroenergy System, achieving the interconnection from Pinar del Río to Holguín following the total disconnection. Various power plants and generating units have been synchronized, prioritizing essential services such as hospitals. Although the system remains fragile, the restoration of service continues gradually.

To follow closely the evolution of the electrical reconnection in Cuba, visit read the full article at:

https://x.com/teleSURtv/status/2033933805979922602

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 20:44

Progressive International

As Donald Trump’s illegal siege plunges Cuba into darkness, the first convoy flight leaves from Milan.

On board: 220 suitcases packed with life-saving medicines.

https://x.com/ProgIntl/status/2033893515046912369

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 20:49

sarah

BREAKING

Spain’s Ione Belarra:

“I call on Spain to join countries like Brazil and China and condemn the absolute terrorism Trump is committing against Cuba.

This is pure violence, a grave violation of human rights, and an energy blockade of limitless severity.

Cuba is not alone. It has consistently shown solidarity to the world.

We must resist this imperialist aggression and confront the wars for money and oil that Trump is launching across the globe.” 🇪🇸 🇨🇺

https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/2033938774074528143

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 20:57

Sputnik Mundo

5h
Translated from Spanish
🇨🇺💡 Power Supply Restored in Nearly 40% of Havana

Following the total blackout in Cuba, 332,926 residents of the capital have regained access to electricity, representing 38.6% of the city, as reported by the Havana Electric Company on its social media channels.

Among other advancements, the service has also been restored in 40 hospitals, it specified.

💬 "The restoration is being carried out gradually, to the extent that conditions of the SEN allow," it added.

https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/2033932319015186530

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 23:16

Bloomberg

A tanker carrying Russian crude appears headed to Cuba as the fuel-starved island seeks a reprieve three months after the Trump administration effectively shut off the flow of oil to the country

https://x.com/business/status/2033990446125298100

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Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 23:36

Giovanni Staunovo🛢

Fuel tanker resumes navigation in the Atlantic with Cuba as possible destination, shipping data shows #oott

https://x.com/staunovo/status/2034011596586934393

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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fuel-tanker-resumes-navigation-atlantic-with-cuba-possible-destination-shipping-2026-03-17/

Fuel tanker resumes navigation in the Atlantic with Cuba as possible destination, shipping data shows
By Reuters
March 17, 20261:13 PM PDTUpdated 42 mins ago

March 17 (Reuters) - A Hong Kong-flagged tanker that could be carrying ‌fuel to Cuba resumed navigation on Tuesday after suspending its course weeks ago ⁠in the Atlantic Ocean, according to LSEG ship tracking data.

The tanker Sea Horse loaded fuel in a ship-to-ship operation earlier this ‌year, ⁠according to vessel tracking data. If it deliver its cargo, it could ⁠provide much needed relief to Cuba, which is ⁠trying to restore power after a ⁠massive blackout this week.

Ravenlocke

17th March 2026, 23:48

senore_amore

🇨🇺 🇷🇺 Bloomberg, citing Kpler data:

Russian oil tankers are heading to Cuba.

According to the publication, the first tanker, the Anatoly Kolodkin, carrying approximately 730,000 barrels, is expected to arrive by the end of the month.

https://x.com/SenoreAmore/status/2034040154927566902

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Ravenlocke

18th March 2026, 17:51

TASS

The New York Times article claiming that Washington seeks to remove Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel from power is a fake story, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said:

https://vk.cc/cVzsDI

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2034219069247738119

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https://tass.com/world/2103217?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Top US diplomat dismisses report of plans to remove Cuban president from power

Marco Rubio said that "many in US media keep putting out fake stories"

WASHINGTON, March 18. /TASS/. The New York Times article claiming that Washington seeks to remove Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel from power is a fake story, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

"The reason so many in US media keep putting out fake stories like this one is because they continue to rely on charlatans and liars claiming to be in the know as their sources," he wrote on X.

The article claimed Washington officials had told Cuba that for meaningful progress to be made in negotiations, President Diaz-Canel must step down. According to the paper, the US authorities believe that removing Cuba’s head of state would allow structural economic changes in the country so that it would gradually open its economy to American businesses.

US President Donald Trump said on March 17 that the US would "be doing something with Cuba soon." However, he did not elaborate further.

On March 13, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that Havana and Washington had held talks aimed at finding solutions to bilateral differences through dialogue. The head of state noted that the goals of the dialogue were to identify problems that require solutions and seek ways to address them, as well as to determine the willingness of both parties to take specific action for the benefit of countries’ people and determine areas for cooperation to confront threats and ensure security and peace. Cuba is willing to carry out the process on the basis of equality and respect for both countries’ political systems and for Havana’s "sovereignty and self-determination."

Ravenlocke

18th March 2026, 18:28

Al Jazeera English

Cuba has reconnected its power grid and brought online its largest oil-fired power plant, energy officials said, putting an end to a nationwide blackout that lasted more than 29 hours amid a US move to choke off the island’s fuel supply https://aje.news/fdvspr

https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/2034158139856085465

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Ravenlocke

18th March 2026, 18:30

Financial Times
Two shipments of Russian oil and gas head to Cuba in defiance of US

https://x.com/FT/status/2034292145192845402

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Ravenlocke

18th March 2026, 18:32

Progressive International

¡Qué viva Cuba! 🇨🇺

The first delegation of the Nuestra América Convoy has arrived in Havana from Europe, carrying more than four tonnes of critical medical aid.

https://x.com/ProgIntl/status/2034267659311718756

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Bill Ryan

20th March 2026, 11:53

A new video from The Duran:

Russian tankers to Cuba. Is it enough to prevent Cuba takeover?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYdz4mkEW2c
My briefest summary of the answer to the question:

It all depends whether Cuba is willing to take the decision to be back in Russia's pocket, which arguably they should have done years ago simply for their own self-preservation. (But they may now be obliged to)

sdv

20th March 2026, 17:37

The most obvious number one trading and development partner for Cuba is the US, but it requires the US to accept a completely different political and economic system on the island nation without treating it as a threat to be eliminated. Are we going to be witnessing a miracle? Magical thinking on my part?

Vicus

21st March 2026, 14:02

The REAL magical thinking : To believe that ANY U.S. president will change their Imperialist Ambitions ...

No matter what! Red? Blue? are just Season colors...

Just Wars after Wars...assassinations,coup the tat , blackmails...

I dint saw any differences from them in my life time, perhaps maybe in my next life, if I'm so cursed to incarnate again in Terra... :facepalm:

rgray222

24th March 2026, 01:25

Leftist visiting Cuba protesting Trump. Staying at the Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana, a luxury 5-star hotel located in central Havana. Prices start at $350 per night. No self awareness whatsoever

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a0e3nbq_460swp.webp

Ravenlocke

24th March 2026, 03:32

Sputnik Mundo

Translated from Spanish
🇨🇺🪧 Pro-Cuba demonstrations are spreading around the world

🔈 With placards, island flags, and chants, hundreds of people have mobilized in different cities to denounce the energy blockade that Washington imposed on Cuba.

📍 In the Greek capital, for example, conferences and a concert were held as a show of solidarity. In El Salvador, collectives joined a caravan that reached the Cuban embassy to show their support. And in Madrid, various organizations held protests in defense of Cuban sovereignty.

https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/2036235545907437830

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2026, 03:34

Sputnik Mundo

Translated from Spanish
🇲🇽🛥🇨🇺 Mexico Sends Another Ship with Humanitarian Aid to Cuba

🗣 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that a new vessel loaded with provisions will set sail for the island, which is enduring pressure from the White House through an energy blockade that compounds the trade embargo it has already suffered for more than six decades.

🗣 "Today another ship sets off, and we're going to send all that's necessary. There have been international brigades that have departed from Mexico; they've been supported so they don't go alone and run into any transportation issues... Yes, we uphold the Cuban people's right to self-determination," she stated.

https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/2036184049341837681

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2026, 03:43

PAULO ALMEIDA - ESTUDO DOS VEDAS.

Mar 22
Translated from Portuguese
The Brazilian government announced the sending of 20,000 tons of rice, 500 tons of powdered milk, and 150 tons of beans to Cuba.
Last week, the first shipment of medicines from Brazil arrived.
The food aid is being distributed in partnership with the UN World Food Program.

https://x.com/palma35d/status/2035875620001845396

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