DRUMS AND THREATS
The drums of war sound in the distance, and vultures circle overhead, heralding the threat.
But it is not they who determine our fate: it is we, the children of a peaceful people, who will suffer under the bombs.
And yet we continue to raise our voices.
Our children, innocent and vulnerable, do not deserve the roar of destruction, but the song of hope.
No matter your political ideology, do you prefer the death of your compatriots?
Cuba, a land of dignity, asks for nothing more than respect, solidarity, and love. Cubans around the world must raise their voices to prevent the madness of a few from trying to subjugate our homeland.
Friends from all corners of the planet have a moral duty: to speak out in favor of Cuba, to remember that the world owes us a lot, because we have always given our best in culture, in humanity, in solidarity.
We will resist, and if necessary, we will die to save our own, but we will never give up on life or hope.
We are the ones who are here, the ones who survive, the ones who remain standing, and as long as there is a heart beating on this island, there will also be a cry of resistance that crosses borders.
We, the survivors, will resist. Those who are now enjoying the prelude should bear the weight of their conscience, if they have one.
Henry Omar Pérez
TAKE NOTE
What bothers the imperialists most is the following:
They know that, despite their threats, their displays of technological superiority, their abuses around the world, and so on, if they ever decide to come here, to Cuba, they know exactly what the outcome will be. It happened in Girón, Vietnam, etc.
They know that if they come here, they come to die.
If I were them, I would be very concerned if their psychopathic president decided to send them.
I would be very concerned indeed. On the road to certain death.
Ana Hurtado
CUBA WAS BORN REBELLIOUS
Cuba is a country deeply devoted to Fidel and Martí. That legacy is not mere rhetoric: it is a guide for conduct. Martí taught us that dignity is not negotiable, and Fidel showed us that sovereignty must be defended even against the most powerful adversary. That is why it is so revealing that, every time the empire toughens its rhetoric or bares its fangs, the same old faces reappear: the lukewarm, those who call for bowing down, those who demand silence in the name of false prudence.
This is not the first time. A few years ago, when then-U.S. President Barack Obama spoke of "good neighbors," those same sectors repeated that Cuba should give in, abandon its historic stance of resistance, and accept the conditions imposed by the North. The aim was to present dignity as obstinacy and firmness as anachronism. But one essential truth was omitted—and is omitted today: it was not #Cuba that threatened the greatest military and economic power on the planet.
Today, in the face of new threats, the script is being repeated. We are asked not to respond, to remain silent, to "not provoke." However, the history of Cuba is not a history of silence or submission. It is the history of a people who have known how to resist, fight, and stand firm in the face of aggression, blockade, and constant pressure.
It is no coincidence that our national anthem has proclaimed since the dawn of the nation that "to die for the homeland is to live." That phrase does not exalt death, but rather the supreme conviction that life only has meaning when it is lived with dignity, sovereignty, and honor. In Cuba, loving the homeland has always meant being willing to defend it, even at the highest price, because surrender was never an option.
That conviction runs through our history and defines our present. To die for the homeland is to live, yes, but to live for the homeland is also to resist, to fight, and to not remain silent in the face of threats. Those who are not willing to defend it, those who prefer comfortable silence or submission disguised as common sense, voluntarily renounce the legacy that made us a nation. And such a legacy does not allow for ambiguity.
Courage cannot be improvised: it is inherited and built. Cuba was born rebellious and forged in struggle. Cowards, as is often the case, were simply born in the wrong place.
Arturo Diego
NO ONE HERE IS GIVING UP!
Finally, Marco Rubio, the cowardly, lying, failed remote bully, Secretary of State, national insecurity advisor, head of USAID funds for intervention and disinformation operations, managed to get Trump to dedicate his Sunday threat and ultimatum to us, loaded with ignorance, disrespectful contempt, and useless phrases of threat and intimidation.
Only deceived, the people of the United States can support their government's policies of barbarism and extermination.
No more oil to Cuba! Zero! The emperor has proclaimed. Surrender!
No one here is surrendering!
To those miserable sponsors of the genocide and barbarism that continues in Gaza, of the bombing of Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, the same government that bombed Caracas, killing dozens of people to kidnap the president of an independent and sovereign country and try to seize its resources, we say: If 32 Cuban internationalists fell defending a sister land of Our America in Caracas, imagine how many millions of us will be willing to fight and shed our blood for Cuba, our sacred homeland, if you dare to attack us.
Imperialists, we do not want war, but know that we are not afraid of you!
Johana Tablada
THE WORLD HAS ENTERED A TIME OF GREAT DANGER
The American empire, fully aware of its rampant economic, political, and moral decline, its documented strategic defeats, the imminence of its economic collapse, and glimpsing the end of the privileges granted to it by the status of its currency as the world's reserve currency, has chosen to complete its renunciation of legality (...) and become an outlaw by normalizing the old practice of privateering and piracy. (...) Cruelly attacking a people in the night. Kidnapping a head of state who is inconvenient to its designs. (...) Faced with this bleak outlook, the peoples have no alternative but to unite to defend themselves. (...) There is no more legitimate trench and no more noble and urgent cause.
Alex Pausides
CONSCIENCE, WILL, AND ROOTS OF THE HOMELAND
(…) Amidst the echoes of the cowardly aggression against Venezuela and the threats against other countries, including Cuba, we see how many people born in this land celebrate Yankee aggression. The same people who, in many cases, have not said a word when that same emperor is arresting and expelling their compatriots as criminals. They remind me that, in our struggles for independence in the 19th century, the counter-guerrilla troops in the service of Spain (known as rayadillos, because of the blue-and-white striped uniforms they wore) were mostly made up of Cubans. And, at times, they had more Cubans enlisted than those who had fought in the ranks of the Liberation Army.
Empires have always had lackeys to rely on.
For that part of those born in Cuba, the distinction made by Fernando Ortiz seems to have been written for them, when he pointed out that it is not enough to be born in Cuba to be Cuban in the full sense of the word. He defined Cuban identity as "consciousness, will, and roots in the homeland," something that is certainly antithetical to applauding the boots of Yankee marines trampling on national soil, beyond any legitimate political and ideological differences one may have with any government.
Faced with a terrible moment in recent history, Fidel expressed in a clear, firm, and precise statement the will to fight of that part of the people who understand that love, mother of the homeland, "is not the ridiculous love of the land, nor of the grass that our feet tread on. It is the invincible hatred of those who oppress it, it is the eternal resentment of those who attack it."
(...) On March 5, 1960, one day after the cowardly sabotage of the steamship La Coubre in the port of Havana, with hundreds of innocent victims and the possibility of an imperialist invasion looming, Fidel summed up this heritage in a clear dilemma: Homeland or Death.
And this expression does not respond to a pathological death drive, nor to a thanatological fixation of the Revolution, nor to a Christian-rooted martyrdom, as certain jaded theorists like to say, but rather, I insist, it is the expression of the will of a people who, since 1868, have had to fight continuously against militarily superior powers.
Now that the empire has once again sullied Our America, that threats are raining down on Cuba, it is fitting for patriots to remember this tradition of struggle, wherever they may be. Opposite those who sell their homeland to improve their lives, there will always be those willing to give their lives for its integrity. And it is to them that, in 1960, for the first time and forever, Fidel said: Homeland or Death!
And to this conviction, he added a certainty: We shall overcome!
José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero
