Defend Cuba From US Efforts to Crush It
Donald Trump’s efforts to blockade Cuba’s fuel supply aim to create chaos. Now more than ever, Cuba needs practical international solidarity to resist US imperialist bullying.
For years, the US establishment has blamed the Cuba’s economic problems on socialism, incompetence, and mismanagement. (Yamil Lage / AFP via Getty Images)
US president Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are seeking regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026. Their actions expose the hypocrisy of US policy toward Cuba over decades — claiming to champion human rights while imposing a blockade that denies Cubans access to vital resources.
Trump openly backs the return of Cuba’s old elite and has even suggested a “friendly takeover” of Cuba by the United States. After years of the US establishment blaming the island’s economic problems on socialism, incompetence, and mismanagement, Trump today openly boasts that the US embargo means “there’s no oil, there’s no money, there’s no anything.” If Cuba really were a failed state, as Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden claim, US economic warfare would be unnecessary. This renewed aggression reveals a declining great power losing hegemony, riven by contradictions and internal crises, and desperate to crush all challenges and alternatives in order to preserve its dominance.
Executive Order
This January 29, Trump signed an executive order claiming that Cuba constitutes “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security and foreign policy and authorizing tariffs on goods from countries selling or providing oil to Cuba. This followed the December 2025 seizure of tankers carrying Venezuelan oil and, this January 3, the violent abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
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