Some upcoming events are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/06/some-astronomical-and-other-events.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-16-of-2026-palestinian.html , and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-15-of-2026-anti-war.html ; some anniversaries are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/08/summer-came-in-with-buzz-and-whirr-goes.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html , etc.
See also:
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/07/return-to-venezuela-what-belongs-to.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/07/chicago-alba-solidarity-about.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/07/adc-sues-dhs-secretary-mullin-over.html
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us
caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-launching-a-new-cointelpro
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/13/caitlin-johnstone-porque-aun-tengo-esperanza/
thefloutist.substack.com/p/further-into-lawlessness
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-invention-of-antifa-fadiman
On TAL in mid-July.
www.commondreams.org/news/stephen-miller-nspm-7
www.efrat.blog/p/the-digital-cage-2026-is-the-year
steelcutter.substack.com/p/call-them-opcs-not-flock-cameras
thecause.substack.com/p/the-police-state-has-always-been
zanzibar.substack.com/p/le-manuel-de-mussolini-dans-une-salle
chrishedges.substack.com/p/requiem-for-america-on-the-fourth
julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/stolen-elections
www.rt.com/news/642507-america-turns-250-russias-role/
www.rt.com/news/643395-trump-far-left-terrorism/
fair.org/slider/prairieland-was-a-test-and-corporate-media-failed/
fair.org/home/dorothee-benz-on-prairieland-protest-case/
ahmadibsais.substack.com/p/the-prairieland-sentencing-and-unequal
liberationnews.org/psl-statement-baseless-indictment-of-raul-castro-a-pretext-for-another-war/
socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-few-thoughts-on-prarieland-sentences.html
socraticgadfly.substack.com/p/quick-thoughts-on-the-prairieland
zeteo.com/p/prairieland-sentences-anti-ice-protests-free-speech-trump
theworker.news/2026/07/09/manifestantes-anti-ice-de-prairieland-reciben-largas-condenas-de-prision
theworker.news/2026/07/23/legislative-architect-of-us-war-machine-lindsay-graham-dies/
mpr21.info/las-consecuencias-de-la-extradicion-a-estados-unidos-de-alex-saab/
On President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores: diario-octubre.com/2026/07/25/el-circo-de-manhattan-cuando-el-imperio-disfraza-el-secuestro-de-justicia/
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/venezuela-who-are-the-colectivos
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/04/estados-unidos-y-la-carrona-mediatica-se-ceban-en-venezuela/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/14/trump-y-el-imperio-de-la-extorsion/
observatoriocrisis.com/2026/07/16/marco-rubio-el-virrey-de-venezuela/
the307.substack.com/p/venezuela-how-the-us-turned-one-of
"Organizers chose July 24 to coincide with two anniversaries: one month since the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that have reportedly killed more than 5,500 people, and the 243rd anniversary of the birth of national liberation hero Simón Bolívar, who led independence struggles across much of Latin America against Spanish colonialism." – theworker.news/2026/07/29/venezuelan-masses-rebel-against-us-imperialist-and-zionist-intervention-following-earthquake/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simón_Bolívar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcy_Rodríguez
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Chávez
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolás_Maduro
theworker.news/2026/07/25/peru-peoples-movement-mpp-statement-on-venezuela-yankees-go-home/
www.kitklarenberg.com/p/the-white-helmets-invade-venezuela
fair.org/home/neo-colonial-coverage-of-venezuela-earthquakes-adds-insult-to-injury/
zanzibar.substack.com/p/seisme-devastateur-au-venezuela-washington
"July 26, 1953 – 73rd Anniversary of Assault on Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks" – cpcml.ca/TML2026/T56047.HTM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement
On Cuban Army General Raúl Castro: cpcml.ca/TML2026/T56040.HTM#1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raúl_Castro
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro
diario-octubre.com/2023/02/22/envejecer-con-mas-salud-es-posible-y-cuba-hace-para-ello/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/14/brasil-envia-a-cuba-48-toneladas-de-leche-en-polvo/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/21/estados-unidos-ya-no-es-un-paraiso-para-los-emigrantes-cubanos/
In Nicaragua – diario-octubre.com/2026/07/19/la-insurreccion-pelicula-sobre-la-revolucion-sandinista-en-su-47-aniversario/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/21/daniel-ortega-jamas-volveran-los-partidos-impuestos-por-ee-uu/
derebeldearevolucionario.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/comunistas-por-la-independencia-de-puerto-rico-2/
www.un-diplomatic.com/p/what-is-sovereignty-to-an-imperialist
historic.ly/did-israel-interfere-in-colombias-elections/
www.rt.com/news/641451-israeli-firm-nyc-scotland-election-meddling/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/23/taty-almeida-una-vida-de-lucha-memoria-y-compromiso/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/14/claman-por-la-libertad-de-milagro-sala-presa-en-argentina-desde-2016/
portside.org/2026-07-16/tall-ships-bring-warning-american-democracy
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/bolivian-uprising
went2thebridge.substack.com/p/irans-message-to-western-leftists
www.rt.com/news/643486-iran-accuses-us-attacking-rescue-boats/
www.rt.com/news/643477-ukraine-attacks-iranian-vessel/
www.rt.com/russia/643465-ukraines-strikes-russia-wildberries/
www.moonofalabama.org/2026/07/hypocrites-u-s-central-command-attacks-commercial-shipping.html
www.rt.com/russia/643482-russia-hits-drone-industry-kiev/
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/yemen-ksa-war-gets-hotter-while-iran
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/19/teheran-se-dirige-con-un-mensaje-al-gran-satan-de-ee-uu/
the307.substack.com/p/we-were-lied-to-about-iranian-public
theworker.news/2026/07/15/khameneis-funeral-draws-estimated-43-million-largest-in-history/
theworker.news/2024/04/21/israel-attacks-iran-with-drones-like-toys-that-our-children-play-with/
observatoriocrisis.com/2026/07/18/el-ejemplo-de-iran-eje-de-la-resistencia-y-liberacion/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/06/el-caballo-de-troya-de-israel-en-la-union-europea-grecia/
portside.org/2026-07-05/holocaust-and-genocide-scholars-are-navigating-minefield
portside.org/2026-07-17/american-suez
consortiumnews.com/2026/07/15/jonathan-cook-two-state-solution-was-always-a-sham/
theworker.news/2026/07/27/peasants-annihilate-israeli-troops-in-the-west-bank/
the307.substack.com/p/israel-is-torturing-a-prominent-palestinian
palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/hamada-al-banna-gaza-flour-search-captivity-solitary-confinement
thegrayzone.com/2026/05/07/opcw-confirms-buried-evidence/
www.kitklarenberg.com/p/british-intels-covert-war-on-hezbollah
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/keir-starmer-the-pm-who-hated-/
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/tweedledee
www.moonofalabama.org/2026/07/economist-lets-start-a-war-to-get-people-used-to-it.html
In The Economist: diario-octubre.com/2026/07/23/desencadenar-guerras-para-que-los-europeos-se-acostumbren-a-ellas/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/04/la-otan-y-la-union-europea-desempenan-funciones-complementarias
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/06/la-represion-politica-no-conoce-limites-en-los-paises-occidentales
the307.substack.com/p/eu-makes-it-illegal-to-repost-clips
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/13/que-es-la-rusofobia/
www.rt.com/news/641341-poland-ukraine-upa-dispute/
Japan and the Ukraine War – diario-octubre.com/2026/07/08/japon-enviara-por-primera-vez-oficiales-a-ucrania-al-mando-de-la-otan/
www.rt.com/russia/642287-ukrainian-strike-russian-monument-injured/
www.rt.com/russia/642237-ukraine-regiment-torture-deaths/
www.rt.com/news/642626-nord-stream-germany-suspect/
www.rt.com/news/643480-germans-dont-believe-army-protect/
www.rt.com/news/643402-germany-gas-russian-imports/
www.rt.com/news/643483-germany-bleeding-jobs-report/
On Daniela Klatte (Klette?) of the German RAF: diario-octubre.com/2026/07/04/militante-de-la-raf-condenada-en-alemania/
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-democratic-blacklisters
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/19/del-paraiso-financiero-al-paraiso-de-la-guerra-el-caso-de-luxemburgo/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/23/la-ultraderechizacion-de-europa/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/06/la-pobreza-no-es-un-fracaso-individual-es-un-fracaso-del-sistema/
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/04/suicidio-a-epidemia-que-ninguen-quere-mirar/
Fighting "gerontocracy," not Capital – in NYRB , www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/david-runciman/the-cult-of-longevity , etc.
diario-octubre.com/2019/09/18/rbc-todas-las-obras-de-stalin/
mltheory.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/soviet-yugoslav-split-ep-3-the-titoist-economy/
In China – diario-octubre.com/2026/07/17/el-espiritu-youyu/
woodsmokeblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/readings-on-welib-north-korea/
newleftreview.org/issues/i68/articles/georg-lukacs-lukacs-on-his-life-and-work
Martyrs’ Memorial Week – July 28th-August 3rd – theworker.news/2026/07/28/honor-and-glory-to-the-martyrs-of-indias-new-democratic-revolution/
mltheory.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/finnish-progressive-art-database/
bitacoramarxistaleninista.blogspot.com and... ?
arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/musk-built-a-monopoly-on-space-can
www.moonofalabama.org/2026/07/spacex-stock-price-has-not-yet-reached-its-bottom.html
portside.org/2026-06-27/cloud-platforms-and-search-engines-are-public-interest-institutions
ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-the-45d
ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-the-3b3
ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-the-59a
julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/apocalypse-yesterday-c59
daniellarison.substack.com/p/stay-out-of-mali
www.rt.com/africa/639115-mali-terrorist-attack-western-involvement/
diario-octubre.com/2026/06/27/lumumba-sigue-en-pie/
thefloutist.substack.com/p/graham-platner-and-the-machines-of
theworker.news/2026/07/24/social-chauvinist-graham-platner-drops-out-of-senate-race/
theworker.news/2026/07/27/el-social-chovinista-graham-platner-se-retira-de-la-carrera-al-senado/
On John Stockwell – fair.org/home/john-stockwell-cia-dissident-who-helped-inspire-fair/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler
monikawiesak.substack.com/p/from-jfk-to-the-national-defense
In Sri Lanka – indi.ca/storks-and-baby-lizards/
The US National Cherry Blossom Festival's Christmas in July Sale ends today.
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/from-the-ashes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Noche_Triste
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otumba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atahualpa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Amaru
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayri_T%C3%BApacc
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Amaru_II
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Corn_Rebellion
All week: bit.ly/iran150 (from WWP, UNAC, etc.) –
Stop U.S./Israeli War on Iran – Defend Iran’s Sovereignty
Emergency response!
Stop All U.S. / Israeli Attacks!
Defend Iran’s Sovereignty!
RESIST Endless War on Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Venezuela & Cuba!
CALL TO ACTION!
There will be an anti-war protest in Lubec, Maine August 1st at 1:30pm: went2thebridge.substack.com/p/monthly-coalition-protest-meets-dem –
From BAJ:
100 Library Drive, off Estes drive near Franklin St.
Balance and Accuracy in Journalism
Presents
The library has an earlier closing time than we usually have
Our speaker on Thursday is Henry Johnston from Chapel Hill, a friend of BAJ participant
The Pentagon is letting Iranian missiles hit American bases on purpose
because it has run out of interceptors to stop them.”
Haw River Assembly notices to add.
International Owl Awareness Day is every August 4th?
From thecurrentga.org –
"Owl Prowl: celebrate International Owl Awareness Day with the Camden County Audubon Society at 8p.m. on Aug. 4 at Crooked River State Park, located at 6222 Charlie Smith Sr. Hwy, Saint Marys. Owl spotters will meet at the Nature Center and are encouraged to bring bug spray and comfortable shoes for walking."
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There will be an in-person booksale at the FODL's Books Among Friends (in the Shoppes of Hope Valley, 3825 South Roxboro Street, Durham, NC 27713) August 21st-22nd: fodlnc.org/events/
And at the Chapel Hill Public Library August 21st-23rd: friendschpl.org/big-book-sales/
library.unc.edu/news/davis-and-undergraduate-library-summer-closures/
From the HASTRO-L:
Planetarium Babylonicum 2.0)1)? – www.academia.edu/community/activity/dv7NYr
More on the ancient Maya mathematician-astronomer Sak Tahn Waax ("White-Chested Fox") in Xultun in Guatemala: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02170-8#ref-CR2 , www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00240-9 , www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01759-1 , www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_11621/?st=gallery , and doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02170-8
Astronomical events to add for July-August.
"Meteor Alert -- Three Showers at Once" – "The intersection will produce a peak in activity on July 30-31 highlighted by the Alpha Capricornid fireballs" – spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=30&month=07&year=2026
Asteroid Apophis will be arrive Friday (?), April 13, 2029: www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=22&month=07&year=2026
www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=26&month=07&year=2026
August events in East Asia to add
From Chicago ALBA Solidarity: chicagoalbasolidarity.org/2026/07/15/venezuela-alba-news-7-15-2026-the-crime-of-us-sanctions-on-cuba-and-venezuela-cuba-venezuela-webinars/ –
Write to President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, unjustly held captive in Brooklyn, New York –
From Chicago ALBA Solidarity ( chicagoalbasolidarity.org/2026/07/28/venezuela-alba-news-7-28-2026-fake-news-about-nicaraguas-elections-new-us-government-anti-cuba-mccarthyite-witchhunt/ ) –
From Chicago ALBA Solidarity, sent out in the morning on July 19th ( chicagoalbasolidarity.org/2026/06/18/venezuela-alba-news-6-17-2026-venezuelas-revolution-today-cuba-stands-strong-evo-on-bolivia/ ) –
Sent out July 3rd; originally posted at: unac.notowar.net/cuba-is-not-a-failed-state-it-is-a-besieged-state/ ; any typos edited. –
Cuba Is Not a Failed State – It Is a Besieged State
We Need to Build a Unified Resistance to Sanctions and War
The statement below is a response to the ongoing blockade against Cuba and the propaganda derived from it. We hope you will endorse this statement, but we also hope you will commit to emergency actions if the Trump Administration follows through with their threats to invade Cuba.
At this critical junction in world history when the Cuban Revolution is being threatened by US hegemon, it is essential to come to its defense. Cuba is the hope of humanity.
We defend Cuba by combating the intentionally negative stereotyping of a failed state. The problems Cuba faces under blockade conditions should not be portrayed in such alarmist ways that it reinforces Washington’s propaganda. We need to combat this defeatist approach.
Cuba is being sanctioned for the crime of being a good example
That Washington continues to intensify its six-decade campaign against the Cuban Revolution testifies to the island’s resilience and strength.
Washington’s regime-change campaign has taken a heavy toll. Responsible Statecraft describes US policy as “bent on breaking the island.” The Guardian reports “an epidemic of flies, rats, waste and foul odors.”
These accounts portray Cuban hardship but intentionally overlook Cuban social achievements. Even statements from Congressional leaders advocating for an end to the blockade by focusing on the crisis it has created, can feed into Washington’s self-serving narrative that Cuba is a “failed nation.”
When descriptions of the humanitarian crisis caused by the escalated blockade do not question the ideological assumption that accepts capitalism as the natural state of humanity, they can be used to depict socialism as an abortive failed experiment.
This is why solidarity activists must take special care to highlight the incredible achievements of Cuba, even under blockade conditions, all while waging an active campaign against the sanctions and gathering supplies to take to the island in solidarity.
Doing so much with so little
The Center for Economic and Policy Research documents a dramatic increase in infant mortality from 4.9, now rising to 9.9 per 1,000 live births, attributable to deteriorating living conditions caused by the US economic war.
Yet, even under this intentional strangulation, Cuba’s infant mortality rate remains among the lowest in the region. Cuba has free public, personalized healthcare for every Cuban from birth and throughout life.
Surrounding countries that are not facing any U.S. sanctions but are forced to survive under capitalist relations have consistently higher infant mortality rates. Panama (11), Dominican Republic (16), El Salvador (12), Honduras (15), Guatemala (20), Jamaica (12), Haiti (45-50).
Most stunning is that Cuba’s infant mortality figures under a ruthless blockade are still lower than for African Americans in the U.S. (10.9).
This reflects the demonstrated success of Cuba’s social medicine model, even under the most challenging of circumstances.
Using Cuba’s example of people-centered healthcare, Nicaragua dramatically reduced their infant mortality from 29 deaths per thousand in 2005 under a right-wing, pro U.S. government to 9 under the Sandinistas and with the assistance of Cuban doctors.
This is why the Trump administration is determined to block Cuban medical staff from providing medical care in the Caribbean. A dozen countries have acquiesced to demands from the U.S. to end medical agreements with Cuba.
Cuba’s medical staff focuses heavily on underserved areas in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. They provide more doctors and medical staff than the World Health Organization and most western nations combined. The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” – but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.
Cuba is not alone, as it receives significant solidarity aid from allied states. China, for example, is helping address Cuba’s fossil fuel dependency by supplying 49 solar farms (20% of all its energy needs) and fleets of electric buses, cars, and scooters. Our solidarity movement should highlight and encourage such international cooperation.
Among Cuba’s public health achievements are its international medical brigades, excellence in advanced research, response to the pandemic, service to underserved populations, south-south cooperation initiatives, and the world’s highest doctor-to-patient ratios.
The Cuban socialist model has also produced notable successes in sports and public education.
Writing from Cuba, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio defended the country’s accomplishments over the past decade despite the “intense economic war,” including:
- sustaining the national electrical system while expanding renewable energy
- strengthening telecommunications and expanding internet access
- supporting vulnerable populations through food cultivation
- improving water infrastructure in underserved communities
- developing COVID vaccines and other medicines
- expanding domestic industry including the assembly of electric vehicles
For a small, natural resource-poor island, Cuba has achieved so much with so little and under such extraordinarily adverse conditions. The nation asks only that the jackboot of imperialism be lifted so that it may truly flourish.
International people’s solidarity must not allow these incredible achievements to be overlooked as we advocate for relief from the cruel blockade. We should describe this crisis the same way that the Cuban leadership describes it – acknowledging the harms of US imperialism, but always stressing the achievements of the Cuban revolution and the power of solidarity and cooperation.
¡Venceremos!
Leading Organizers from the Following Organizations support this Cuba statement and the Call to Action.
United National Antiwar Coalition, Cuba Si NY/NJ, International US-Cuba Normalization Conference, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, Alliance for Global Justice, SanctionsKill! Campaign, Resist U.S. Led War Movement, Black Alliance for Peace, International League of Peoples Struggles, Americas Without Sanctions, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Task Force on the Americas, International Action Center, Veterans For Peace, Code Pink NY, National Lawyers Guild, Anti War Action Network, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Bronx Antiwar, Compas de la Diaspora, Struggle for Socialism Party, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), Workers World Party
(This statement was initiated by the SanctionsKill Campaign.)
Add your support and help to circulate this statement.
Originally posted, May 5th, at: blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/cuba-imperial-warfare
For Peace in the Americas, We Must Defend Cuba Against U.S. Imperialist Warfare
The U.S. Presidential Executive Order, “Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy,” signed on May 1, 2026, International Workers' Day, marks both an escalation of existing policy and a qualitative shift toward total economic warfare, deploying starvation as an instrument of statecraft. The timing of this escalation is not incidental. Issued amid renewed U.S. rhetoric around exerting control over Cuba, the EO signals an effort to consolidate that control in a moment of deepening crisis for U.S. imperialism.
By broadening sanctions to target any entity or individual deemed a "material supporter" of the Cuban government, authorizing secondary sanctions against third-party financial institutions worldwide, reinforcing energy constraints on fuel procurement, and invoking dubious national security designations, the Order effectively criminalizes basic economic survival. These provisions extend U.S. economic warfare beyond its borders, coercing foreign banks, suppliers, and intermediaries to cut off even routine transactions with Cuba or risk punishment and exclusion from the dollar-dominated financial system. Weaponizing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) isolates Cuba from the global financial system entirely, collectively punishing not just the state but every Cuban citizen seeking medicine, food, or electricity. Beyond Cuba, from Haiti to Venezuela, from Nicaragua to Grenada, the U.S. utilizes political subversion, economic coercion, and military attack to enforce ‘full spectrum dominance’ in the Americas.
Cuba is under attack because its revolutionary project poses an existential threat to U.S. hegemony. For over sixty years, a small island under the most brutal economic embargo in modern history has built a society with universal healthcare, free education, and a life expectancy that rivals the Global North's, without submitting to IMF austerity, World Bank structural adjustment, or U.S. corporate domination. The Order’s provisions targeting "foreign actors" and "security concerns" function as transparent pretexts to intensify economic strangulation at a moment of vulnerability in Cuba as it recovers from pandemic-driven tourism collapse, tighten the noose on its hard-won energy independence, and preempt any deepening relationships with China, Russia, or Global South partners.
For BAP, this Executive Order must also be understood within the current geopolitical moment. It echoes and reinforces U.S. offensives against Venezuela, aiming to break the Bolivarian Revolution, and Iran, whose own targeting under maximalist pressure campaigns mirrors Cuba’s isolation. Furthermore, the Order weaponizes dollar dependence to coerce Caribbean states into continuing to abandon their historic solidarity with Cuba, punishing regional integration. In this context, the Executive Order is a unilateral bid to shatter the emerging call for a Zone of Peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is why ending unilateral coercive measures (i.e., imperialist sanctions), returning Guantanamo Bay to Cuba, and dismantling the U.S. Southern Command ‘Southcom’ infrastructures throughout Our Americas are fundamental requirements for peace in the region.
This escalation follows a campaign of narrative warfare of so-called “anti-Blackness in Cuba” aimed at isolating Cuba from African nations and from African/ Black people living within the U.S. The Cuban Revolution’s deepest gift is its unbroken refusal to bend. Cuba is a living demonstration that dignity, not profit, can organize a society. Those who claim the legacy of anti-imperialism cannot be silent. Now is the time to stand with the people of Cuba as fiercely as possible. The world must answer this Executive Order not with statements, but with organized resistance.
Para Alcanzar la Paz en las Américas, Defendamos a Cuba contra los Ataques Imperialistas de Estados Unidos
La Orden Ejecutiva Presidencial de EE. UU. titulada “Imposición de sanciones a los responsables de la represión en Cuba y de amenazas a la seguridad nacional y la política exterior de Estados Unidos,” firmada el 1 de mayo de 2026, Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, supone tanto una escalada de la política existente como un giro cualitativo hacia una guerra económica total, en la que se utiliza el hambre como instrumento de política estatal. El momento en que se produce esta escalada no es casual. Emitida en medio de una renovada retórica estadounidense en torno al ejercicio del control sobre Cuba, la Orden Ejecutiva señala un esfuerzo por consolidar ese control en un momento de crisis cada vez más profunda para el imperialismo estadounidense.
Al ampliar las sanciones para apuntar a cualquier entidad o individuo considerado un “colaborador material” del gobierno cubano, autorizar sanciones secundarias contra instituciones financieras de terceros en todo el mundo, reforzar las restricciones energéticas en la adquisición de combustible e invocar designaciones dudosas de seguridad nacional, la Orden criminaliza de manera efectiva la supervivencia económica básica. Estas disposiciones extienden la guerra económica de EE. UU. más allá de sus fronteras, coaccionando a bancos, proveedores e intermediarios extranjeros para que corten incluso las transacciones rutinarias con Cuba o se arriesguen a ser sancionados y excluidos del sistema financiero dominado por el dólar. El uso de la Ley de Poderes Económicos de Emergencia Internacional (IEEPA) como arma aísla a Cuba por completo del sistema financiero global, castigando colectivamente no sólo al Estado, sino a todos los ciudadanos cubanos que buscan medicamentos, alimentos o electricidad. Más allá de Cuba, desde Haití hasta Venezuela, desde Nicaragua hasta Granada, Estados Unidos utiliza la subversión política, la coacción económica y el ataque militar para imponer el “dominio en todo el espectro” en las Américas.
Cuba está bajo ataque porque su proyecto revolucionario representa una amenaza existencial para la hegemonía estadounidense. Durante más de sesenta años, una pequeña isla sometida al embargo económico más brutal de la historia moderna ha construido una sociedad con salud universal, educación gratuita y una esperanza de vida que rivaliza con la del Norte Global, sin someterse a la austeridad del FMI, al ajuste estructural del Banco Mundial ni al dominio corporativo de Estados Unidos. Las disposiciones de la Orden dirigidas a “actores extranjeros” y “preocupaciones de seguridad” funcionan como pretextos transparentes para intensificar el estrangulamiento económico en un momento de vulnerabilidad en Cuba, mientras se recupera del colapso del turismo provocado por la pandemia, para apretar el lazo sobre su independencia energética ganada con tanto esfuerzo y para impedir cualquier profundización de las relaciones con China, Rusia o socios del Sur Global.
Para el BAP, esta Orden Ejecutiva también debe entenderse en el contexto geopolítico actual. Se hace eco y refuerza las ofensivas de EE. UU. contra Venezuela, con el objetivo de quebrantar la Revolución Bolivariana, y contra Irán, cuya propia persecución mediante campañas de presión maximalistas refleja el aislamiento de Cuba. Además, la Orden utiliza la dependencia del dólar como arma para coaccionar a los Estados del Caribe a que sigan abandonando su histórica solidaridad con Cuba, castigando así la integración regional. En este contexto, la Orden Ejecutiva es un intento unilateral de hacer añicos el llamado emergente a una Zona de Paz en América Latina y el Caribe. Por eso, poner fin a las medidas coercitivas unilaterales (es decir, las sanciones imperialistas), devolver la Bahía de Guantánamo a Cuba y desmantelar las infraestructuras del Comando Sur de EE. UU. (Southcom) en toda Nuestra América son requisitos fundamentales para la paz en la región.
Esta escalada sigue a una campaña de guerra narrativa sobre el llamado “anti-negrismo en Cuba”, destinada a aislar a Cuba de las naciones africanas y de las personas africanas y negras que viven en los Estados Unidos. El regalo más profundo de la Revolución Cubana es su inquebrantable negativa a ceder. Cuba es una demostración viva de que la dignidad, y no el lucro, puede organizar una sociedad. Quienes reivindican el legado del antiimperialismo no pueden permanecer en silencio.
Ahora es el momento de apoyar al pueblo de Cuba con toda la firmeza posible. El mundo debe responder a esta Orden Ejecutiva no con declaraciones, sino con resistencia organizada.
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