The certainty that Cuba is not a threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy is widely recognized by voices from different parts of the world that rose up this weekend—and until the close of this edition—to condemn the imperialist aggression looming over the largest of the Antilles.
The Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) denounced the policy as an act of imperialist blackmail and demanded its immediate revocation, as well as the total lifting of the blockade and the removal of Cuba from the list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism.
Under the slogan "Hands off Cuba and Latin America," the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) stated in a publication on x that the Executive Order is not a national security measure, but a form of economic terrorism aimed at deepening a humanitarian crisis created by the U.S. blockade itself.
Political representatives from the northern nation also expressed disagreement with their government's actions. Rashida Tlaib, Democratic representative from Michigan, described the executive order as an act of extreme cruelty: "This executive order will kill countless innocent Cubans. I am horrified by the Trump administration's attempt to strangle an entire people. Homes, schools, and hospitals without electricity. Children without food or medicine. Cuba does not pose a threat to the United States. This is pure cruelty."
Along the same lines, New York Democratic Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez denounced this policy as tantamount to economic warfare designed to cause hunger and suffering: "The most vulnerable will suffer the most. This policy is inconceivable."
For his part, Representative Chuy García (Democrat from Illinois) recalled that this genocidal policy has been maintained for more than six decades with the aim of causing social despair.
For Jim Winkler, former president and former general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States, "Trump's oil embargo, like the entire US embargo of more than 60 years, is unnecessary and immoral."
The U.S. solidarity movement Pastors for Peace acknowledged in a statement on Facebook that: "For decades, the U.S. blockade has been the main architect of Cuba's economic difficulties, a fact overwhelmingly condemned by the international community year after year. However, Cuba's resistance is a lesson in dignity." It noted that "as the Trump administration intensifies the war, we, the people of the United States, must intensify our solidarity."
For his part, Pope Leo XIV expressed concern about the current situation between the United States and Cuba, while calling for the avoidance of any action that could increase the suffering of the Cuban people.
The U.S. organization Brigada Antonio Maceo rejected and condemned the "illegal and cruel measures against the sale of oil to Cuba with the intention of suffocating it by the U.S. government led by the monster Donald Trump and assisted by the corrupt and criminal Marco Rubio."
FIRM SOLIDARITY
"We are seeking all diplomatic channels to be able to send fuel to the Cuban people, because this is not a matter for governments, but rather a matter of support to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. In the meantime, we are going to send food and other aid," said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Activists, parliamentarians, and representatives of political parties in Mexico have also spoken out in recent days in support of the Caribbean nation. In this regard, the Mexican political party Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena) stated at a press conference that its government has had oil trade contracts with Cuba for decades and will continue to offer its solidarity to the island.
Condemnation of this brutal imperialist measure has also been heard in South America. The São Paulo Forum issued a statement expressing its strong rejection of Donald Trump's actions in subjugating the Cuban government and people, whose anti-imperialist struggle is an example for all of America. The Forum denounced that "the Trump administration is resuming policies of interference in elections and using military means to ensure that the U.S. maintains its economic supremacy over Latin America and the Caribbean, and is attempting to revive the Monroe Doctrine, the policy of the big stick, and the vision that considers the entire region as its backyard (...). The São Paulo Forum stands firm with Cuba, its people, and its government, now and always, in our common struggle for a free and sovereign Latin America and Caribbean."
The Colombian Workers' Union (CUT) condemned the US government's siege against the Cuban people. "The Caribbean island is no threat to the United States or the region, let alone the world."
The Communist Party of Brazil issued a statement of solidarity with Cuba, noting that this is a new chapter in the imperialist policy of collective punishment and economic genocide, aimed at suffocating the Cuban economy, deepening the difficulties of the population, and creating artificial conditions for political destabilization.
Likewise, the Brazilian Center for Friendship with the Peoples and Struggle for Peace supported the Greater Antilles, asserting that "this hostile initiative is not an isolated event. It is aggravated by the public statements of the President of the United States and the head of the State Department, who have openly affirmed their intention to overthrow the Cuban government as soon as possible. These positions reveal a policy of continuous aggression, combining economic coercion, diplomatic pressure, and political threats, in flagrant disregard for the most basic principles of international law."
For its part, the Brazilian Workers' Party issued a message of support in defense of the sovereignty of the Cuban people, whom the blockade prevents from developing "freely and fully."
Former Colombian President Ernesto Samper Pizano said in X that this "operation (...) is very similar to the police boot that killed George Floyd a few years ago." He added that "Trump is not as eternal as the Cuban resistance to the blockade."
In a statement, the Socialist Party of Peru (PSP) noted: "Although State Department spokesman Matthew Miller has cynically declared that 'attacks and threats against diplomatic facilities are unacceptable,' we Peruvian socialists maintain that the United States has a long history of terrorist and other attacks against heroic Cuba."
The Communist Party of Peru-Red Fatherland (PC-PR), in a public statement signed by its president, Alberto Moreno, and its secretary general, Manuel Guerra, pointed out that the imposition of high tariffs on imports from countries that sell fuel to the island violates international law.
The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) emphasized in an official statement that "the blockade imposed against Cuba has been in place for 67 years and the Executive Order is an escalation to intensify the suffering of the Cuban people and impose an imperial and colonialist agenda."
Similarly, it demanded respect for the United Nations Charter, an end to the economic blockade, the return of the Guantanamo Naval Base territory, and called for solidarity among states and social movements to denounce this new escalation of hostilities.
ON THE SIDE OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE
The Communist Party of Norway (NKP) issued a statement expressing its full solidarity with the people and government of Cuba in the face of the recent escalation of aggression by the US government.
"The attempt to impose a total blockade on Cuba's fuel supply is a cruel and illegal act of collective punishment. It deepens an already brutal economic siege that, for more than 65 years, has sought to strangle Cuba's sovereignty, undermine its independence, and inflict suffering on its people," the document denounced.
It also strongly condemned the use of economic warfare, extraterritorial sanctions, and threats of punitive tariffs to force other countries to comply with a universally rejected blockade policy.
