Solidarity with Cuba! End the criminal blockade!

The Resist US-Led War Movement expresses our unwavering confidence in the Cuban people and their revolutionary leadership to overcome the "maximum pressure" imposed by the US. This policy against Cuba, moves beyond a traditional embargo that was already deadly to a comprehensive oil and financial blockade aimed at completely crippling Cuba's tourism and medical sectors.

Donald Trump has intensified his criminal blockade on Cuba by signing an executive order on January 29, this order declared a national emergency with respect to Cuba and allowed the U.S. government to impose new economic sanctions on any nation engaging in oil trade with the Caribbean nation. This move comes shortly after US military actions in Venezuela, including invasion, bombing, and the abduction of its president, disrupted one of Cuba's key alliances in the region. Venezuela, historically the main oil supplier to Cuba, has now been forced to halt its shipments to the island. Additionally, the US has illegally seized oil tankers suspected to be sailing to Cuba from the Caribbean Sea to as far as the Indian Ocean, and has declared further economic warfare against any state that does business with Cuba.

This immense escalation of the decades-long US blockade of Cuba has led to one of the most severe energy crises in the country's history. Cuba has had to limit civilian and commercial flights due to lack of jet fuel, weakening further people's freedom of movement and the ability of the country to import goods. Electricity cuts have impacted not only private homes but schools, hospitals, and economic production. The existing hardships on the Cuban people imposed by US sanctions and blockade has now reached suffocating levels.

In targeting the Cuban population and aiming to deteriorate their living standards, the US strategy is to sow further economic collapse and political turmoil to prompt regime change. The US has made hundreds of unsuccessful attempts at overthrowing the Cuban revolution, with assassination attempts and failed military invasions. The people have steadfastly built alternatives to the US sanctions and blockade, in spite of diabolical US efforts to crush the project of building and sustaining socialism in the nation. Viewing all of Latin America and the Caribbean people and resources as part of the US's rightful domain, Trump seeks to further destabilize the country as part of its strategy to "enlist" and "expand" US partners in the region subservient to imperialist aims.

Resist US-Led War will continue to mobilize freedom-loving people and progressive forces worldwide to intensify solidarity with Cuba and work to break the embargo, supporting international efforts to secure the island's energy and medicine needs. This March 21 there will be a demonstration and delivery of humanitarian aid, solar panels and medical supplies organized by the Nuestra America Flotilla sailing, flying and mobilizing to Cuba. Advocacy to pressure local authorities and political officials to overturn Trump's executive orders in the short term, and mass mobilization initiatives in the US in the long term to drop the coercive measures and end the siege against Cuba are also critical to raise the mass opposition against the US siege on Cuba.