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Argentinian sociologist Atilio Borón, analyzing the impact of Western sanctions on Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba, explains that hunger is more dangerous than any bomb imperialism could drop on the Bolivarian nations.
Cuba’s energy grid routinely collapses, leaving large swaths of the island in the dark.
The White House has pledged to stop U.S. citizens from visiting Cuba and further starving Cuba of much-needed foreign exchange.
Every day, U.S. foreign policy is more aggressive toward any nation, from Syria to Venezuela to Russia, that dares to stand up to the global Goliath and its insatiable appetite for profits and military superiority.
On January 20, Donald Trump and his cabinet of billionaires took state power, immediately returning Cuba to its list of “state sponsors of terror.” Trump enacted a further 243 coercive measures against Cuba when he assumed office in 2017 and promises to further tighten the noose around Cuba’s neck.
On June 30, Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) focused on attempting to tighten a colonial noose around Cuba’s neck. Credible international sources from the multipolar world anticipate another U.S.-supported and directed July 11, 2021, San Isidro-style coup attempt against Cuba.
There are overwhelming signs that, like Syria over the past 14 years, Cuban popular and state forces could be overwhelmed by the superior disinformational and military firepower of empire in its most fascist expression.
On January 1, 2025, the 66th anniversary of the Revolution, Cuba officially became a member of BRICS. Multipolarity is the only chance Cuba has to spring itself forward out of 35 years of a “Special Period,” where two generations have grown up knowing scarcity.
While this generation has heard from their grandparents about the socio-economic gains that the Revolution won for all of its citizens, they have only known shortages, long queues and sparsity.
The capitalists seek to equate Cuba, and their closest partners in Caracas and Managua, with misery, the diametrical opposite of socialism.
Those of us in the West who know and defend the legacy of the 1959 Revolution are a small, censored minority under greater threats every day. How far away is the day when we will be detained, like the Venceremos Brigade that I was a part of in 1995 was, just for daring to go to Cuba to learn from the people there?…READ MORE
