Today’s headlines are full of talk about Cuba’s economic collapse, blackouts, food shortages, and protests.
But this crisis is made in Washington. The U.S. blockade, tightened to strangulation under Trump and maintained ever since, is the real cause of Cuba’s suffering.
Any news story that omits this isn’t just incomplete. It’s lying by omission.
Cuba isn’t failing. Cuba is being sabotaged.
The U.S. has spent over 60 years waging economic war on the island, not because Cuba is a threat, but because Cuba refused to be a U.S. colony.
The blockade isn’t just a policy, it’s a crime. It’s designed to starve the country into submission, to turn the lights off, to empty the pharmacies, to make life unbearable. And then, when the suffering becomes undeniable, the U.S. points to the chaos it created and says, “See? Socialism doesn’t work.”
The U.S. has openly admitted its goal: to “wreak havoc” on Cuba’s economy, to “deprive the regime of resources,” to make the people suffer until they overthrow their government.
They’ve seized oil shipments, blocked remittances, threatened any country that dares to trade with Cuba. They’ve turned scarcity into a weapon. And now, as Cubans face blackouts and empty shelves, the same people who imposed this siege are smirking and saying, “Maybe now they’ll learn their lesson.”
But the world knows the truth. Year after year, the United Nations votes overwhelmingly to condemn the blockade. 184 countries against it, with only the U.S. and Israel in favor. Human rights organizations, even mainstream ones, have called it what it is: collective punishment. A violation of international law.
A humanitarian catastrophe manufactured in Washington.
And yet, you’ll read article after article today about Cuba’s “failed economy” without a single mention of the blockade. They’ll talk about “mismanagement” or “corruption,” but they won’t tell you that Cuba was doing just fine before the U.S. declared war on it.
They won’t tell you that Cuba, despite the siege, still has one of the best healthcare systems in the region, still sends doctors around the world, still educates its people better than most of its neighbors.
They won’t tell you that the real failure isn’t socialism, it’s imperialism.
So when you see a headline about Cuba’s crisis, ask yourself: Who’s really to blame?
The U.S. doesn’t just want Cuba to fail, it needs Cuba to fail, to prove that resistance is futile. But Cuba offers the US the biggest "Fuck You!" - After 60 years of blockade, Cuba is still standing.
The question is, how much longer will the world let this cruelty go on?
The blockade is the story. Anything less is a lie.