cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42690266

[An excellent editorial - a must-read.]

Also includes a Declaration by the Government of Cuba - “Cuba Condemns and Denounces New Escalation of US Economic Blockade”

Feb. 4, 2026

On January 29, 2026, U.S. president Donald Trump issued a new executive order declaring a “national emergency” due to the “unusual and extraordinary threat” that Cuba allegedly poses to the United States. The White House announced it will impose harsh punitive tariffs on any country that trades oil with Cuba.

This is unvarnished economic warfare, a major escalation of Washington’s unrelenting efforts over more than six decades aimed at asphyxiating the Cuban people and overthrowing their socialist revolution.

While acknowledging the extreme hardship its people face, the Cuban government reacted with characteristic defiance. Cuba is “a country of brave and combative people,” it declared in a statement denouncing Trump’s latest threat (reproduced below). “Imperialism is mistaken when it believes that economic pressure and the determination to cause suffering to millions of people will break their determination to defend national sovereignty and prevent Cuba from falling, once again, under U.S. domination.”