Economic Blockade

Cuba’s Participatory Path In A Time Of Economic Siege

November 26, 2025 Isaac Saney, Resumen English. Strategize! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Economic crisis, Participatory Democracy

Amid one of the most severe economic moments since the triumph of the Revolution—and under the weight of a suffocating, ever-expanding U.S. imperial siege—Cuba is attempting something that remains almost unthinkable in the so-called advanced capitalist democracies: it is involving its citizenry directly, consciously, and systematically in charting the country’s economic future. While the wealthy western nations increasingly marginalize their own working populations, Cuba insists that the resolution of the crisis must be a collective, participatory, and profoundly democratic undertaking.

Sign On Opportunity: Health Workers’ Letter To End Child-Killing Sanctions

November 18, 2025 Sanctions Kill and Americas Without Sanctions, Popular Resistance. Resist! Children, Economic Blockade, health, Sanctions, Unilateral coercive measures

The SanctionsKill campaign is inviting health workers around the United States to sign our letter to the US government urging it to stop the use of unilateral coercive measures (“sanctions”) because they are as deadly as armed conflict and primarily kill children. The letter will be presented to the US Congress and Executive Branch in early 2026, and will be the subject of various campaign activities, including a December 3 webinar described below. The letter has already been signed by some prominent health workers

Hurricane Melissa Relief: An Urgent Message From The Peoples Forum

October 30, 2025 The People's Forum, Resumen English. Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Humanitarian Aid, Hurricane Melissa, International Solidarity

Right now, the people of Cuba are facing an unprecedented crisis: crippling electrical blackouts, the relentless weight of the U.S. blockade, and now the arrival of Hurricane Melissa. We are sending urgently-needed food, clean water, and supplies to the island—and we need your help This hurricane is not merely a severe storm; it is a catastrophic event that has shredded infrastructure and left entire communities in life-threatening conditions. But this natural disaster is amplified exponentially by a man-made catastrophe. For over six decades, the U.S. blockade has choked the Cuban economy, preventing access to essential goods, medicines, and the materials needed for recovery. This policy of strangulation has been devastatingly intensified by measures put in place under the Trump administration and championed by figures like Marco Rubio.

The US Increases Pressure On Cuba By Targeting Its Medical Brigades

August 21, 2025 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Henry Reeves Brigades, Trump Administration, US Sanctions

On August 13, the United States launched another attack on Cuba. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that his country would impose visa restrictions on officials from Brazil, Grenada, and African countries who hire or have hired Cuban medical brigades. According to Rubio, the work of Cuban doctors working in other countries is “forced labor”. The decision is part of a tightening of measures against the Caribbean island, which are in addition to the economic and commercial blockade imposed on the island as a means of punishment against the revolutionary process that began in 1959. “Today, the State Department took steps to impose visa restrictions on officials from the African, Cuban, and Grenadian governments, and their families, for their complicity in the Cuban regime’s medical mission plan,” Rubio said.

Trump Tightens US Blockade On Cuba, Bans US Tourism

July 3, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Cuba, Donald Trump, Economic Blockade, Tourism, US Imperialism

US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum reinforcing the US blockade on Cuba and banning all US tourism to the island. The move targets Cuba’s economy and aims to isolate the Cuban government. On June 30, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum that dramatically tightens the longstanding US blockade against Cuba and prohibits all US citizens from traveling to the island. This policy shift overturns the more conciliatory approach adopted by the Biden administration and signals a renewed campaign to economically and politically isolate Cuba.

Washington Targets Achievements Of Cuba, Nicaragua, And Venezuela

June 12, 2025 John Perry and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Marco Rubio, Nicaragua, Social Programs, Venezuela

“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission), run jointly by the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. The larger mission has treated over seven million patients in 33 countries since 2004. Local Nicaraguan doctors, trained by the Cubans, are now in charge in Ciudad Sandino. Misión Milagro is despised by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Washington has imposed sanctions on officials in countries using this and other Cuban medical missions. Supposedly aimed at stopping the “trafficking” of medical staff, the real intent is to destroy services that have proved immensely popular for their free, high-quality treatment, often in remote areas with few health facilities.

Cuba Proposes Global Health Alliance At BRICS Forum In Brazil

June 8, 2025 Resumen English. Create! BRICS, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Global Health

During the 11th Parliamentary Forum of BRICS, a bloc initially composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and recently expanded, Cuban deputy Alberto Núñez strongly rejected Washington’s blockade against the island, which he described as a “suffocating economic war.” At the beginning of his speech, Núñez conveyed the gratitude of the island’s Parliament to the organizers and reiterated that Cuba’s participation as an associate country of BRICS represents an opportunity to build a more just multilateral order based on solidarity and cooperation among States with different levels of development. The vice president of the International Relations Committee of the National Assembly and the Council of State of Cuba presented his country’s health model as a concrete and effective alternative.

China Helps Cuba Fight Blackouts, Strengthen Power Grid

April 29, 2025 Jimena Esteban, Orinoco Tribune. Create! China, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Energy, energy crisis, Solar power

Cuba may slowly ease its crippling blackouts and strengthen the electricity grid as it begins building seven solar parks with the first batch of equipment from China. The Chinese aid helps Cuba’s plan to build 92 solar installations by 2028, adding about 2,000 megawatts to the island’s power grid and help reduce dependence on fossil fuel imports. Once completed, the project would significantly boost Cuba’s strained power system, which currently has a capacity of 7,264 MW. Installation work is set to begin soon in Artemisa, about 50 kilometers west of Havana, where the equipment arrived late last month. Additional solar parks are planned for the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma and Guantanamo.

Mexico’s Sheinbaum Calls On CELAC To End Blockade Of Cuba And Venezuela

April 11, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! CELAC, Claudia Sheinbaum, Colombia, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Gustavo Petro, Latin America, Mexico, Venezuela, Xiomara Castro

At the 9th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned economic blockades against any country and singled out those imposed on Cuba and Venezuela by the United States. “We reject, as Mexico has historically done, trade sanctions and blockades…” said Sheinbaum. “No to the blockade of Cuba. No to the blockade of Venezuela,” the Mexican president stated during her speech at the summit, held in Honduras, on Wednesday, April 9.

Forging Resistance To The War On Cuba

April 7, 2025 Diana Block, Resumen English. Strategize! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Malcolm X, Revolution

As the Trump/Rubio diabolical duo devise new attacks against Cuba, hundreds of activists gathered at New York City’s Malcolm X Center over the March 15-16 weekend to strategize how to strengthen solidarity organizing in the U.S. and Canada. Marking the centennial of Malcolm X’s birth (born on May 19, 2025), this year’s US-Cuba Normalization conference was dedicated to the memory and legacy of Malcolm X and uplifted the decades of connection between the Cuban and U.S.-based Black liberation struggles.

Reflections On The Life Of A Cuban-American Exile Hardliner

March 7, 2025 Peter Bolton, Popular Resistance. Educate! Congress, Counter-revolution, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Lincoln Diaz-Balart

“One should never speak ill of the dead,” so the old cliché goes about the recently deceased. Those with less inclination toward sentimentality, however, hold that this rule applies only to those who have lived a life exclusively in private and whose actions have had an effect only among their close-knit circle of family, friends, coworkers and neighbors. For those who have lived a public life and who have wielded power over others in a political capacity, their decision to live such a life exempts them from this freedom-from-criticism even, or perhaps especially, in death.

Cuba Doubles Down Against USAID

February 15, 2025 Kawsachun News, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Media, Propaganda, USAID

Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez has once again denounced the use of USAID against Cuba. Between 1998 and 1999 alone, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) spent more than six million dollars (USD) to carry out hundreds of illegal operations in Cuba. Between 2001 and 2006, it allocated $61 million for 142 illegal projects and activities against the Cuban people. Cuba has repeatedly denounced the use of USAID and other organizations presented as humanitarian or in defense of democracy, as fronts to penetrate and undermine societies, impose colonial values and customs, as well as manipulate or outright control local elites and the press, with the aim of strengthening U.S. hegemony.

Trump Reinstates Cuba As A ‘State Sponsor Of Terrorism’

January 23, 2025 People's Dispatch. Educate! Cuba, Donald Trump, Economic Blockade, Joe Biden, Sanctions, State Sponsors of Terrorism list

On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump reinstated Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism.” Outgoing President Joe Biden had removed Cuba from the US State Department’s list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism” less than a week prior, a long-awaited move that he committed to in his final days in office. Prior to this, Cuba had been on the list since 2021, as Trump had added Cuba in the final days of his first administration. This designation has piled on unilateral sanctions to the already blockaded island and led to multiple humanitarian crises, as it has the unofficial effects of ostracizing Cuba from global trade—resulting in shortages of key goods such as fuel.

Cuban Foreign Ministry Statement On Removing Island From State Sponsors Of Terrorism List

January 15, 2025 Ed Newman, Resumen English. Resist! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Terrorism, US State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSoT)

The decision announced today by the United States corrects, in a very limited way, aspects of a cruel and unjust policy. It is a correction that occurs now, on the verge of a change of government, when it should have been carried out years ago, as an elementary act of justice, without demanding anything in return and without fabricating pretexts to justify inaction, if it was desired to act correctly. In order to exclude Cuba from the arbitrary list of state sponsors of terrorism, it should have been enough to recognize the truth, the total absence of reasons for such a designation and the exemplary performance of our country in the fight against terrorism, which has even been admitted by agencies of the United States government.

The Cuban Five Victory: Reflections 10 Years Later

January 1, 2025 Diana Block, Orinico Tribune. Educate! Cuba, Cuban 5, Economic Blockade, Solidarity, US Imperialism

I can remember clearly the rush of joy I felt when I heard the almost unbelievable news that the last three members of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino, had landed in Havana on December 17th, 2014, after 16 years of unjust incarceration in U.S. prisons. (The other two members of the Five, Fernando González, and René González, had been released previously at the end of their prison terms.) I had corresponded with Gerardo while he was in prison and seeing the pictures of him embrace his wife, Adriana Pérez, who was about to give birth to their daughter Gema, made it all seem even more miraculous.

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