Solidarity organizations in the US condemn the new executive order against Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 2 (ACN) Various political figures and solidarity organizations in the United States condemned the recent executive order by the Donald Trump administration imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba, a measure considered an escalation of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island, reported the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, Cubaminrex.

Rashida Tlaib, Democratic Representative from Michigan, described the measure as an act of extreme cruelty and warned that it will affect homes, schools, and hospitals, leaving children without food or medicine.

Nydia Velazquez, Democratic Congresswoman from New York, denounced the policy as equivalent to economic warfare designed to cause hunger and suffering, with direct consequences for the most vulnerable sectors of the Cuban population.

Chuy Garcia, Democratic Representative from Illinois, recalled that the U.S. blockade against Cuba has been in place for more than six decades and stated that the new economic attack seeks to provoke a humanitarian collapse and force further migration.

The Communist Party USA rejected the measure, calling it imperialist blackmail and demanding its immediate revocation, along with the complete lifting of the blockade and Cuba's removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

The People’s Forum stated on X that the restriction on access to fuel constitutes a direct attack on Cuba's basic infrastructure, and highlighted the Caribbean nation's resilience despite more than 60 years of the blockade.

The Democratic Socialists of America stated in an X post that the executive order does not respond to national security concerns, but rather constitutes “economic terrorism” intended to deepen the humanitarian crisis created by the blockade itself.

The peace movement CODEPINK denounced the measure as having the true objective of suffocating the entire Cuban population, and emphasized that the island poses no threat to the United States.

These pronouncements reflect a growing consensus among sectors of American and international society that Cuba poses no threat whatsoever, and that the new measure violates basic principles of international law.