Declaration of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba
The Revolutionary Government of Cuba condemns, in the strongest terms, the new escalation against Cuba by the government of the United States in its efforts to impose an absolute siege on our country’s fuel supplies.
The executive order issued by the US President, announced on January 29, 2026, declares an alleged national emergency by virtue of which his government could apply trade tariffs to the imports of products from countries that supply oil to Cuba.
In order to justify such an extreme action, the text of the aforementioned order includes a long list of lies and defamatory allegations against Cuba. Particular among these is the absurd assertion that Cuba constitutes “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the national security of the United States. The President himself and his government are well aware that no one, or very few people, would believe such mendacious arguments, but they do not care. Such is their disdain for the truth, public opinion or government ethics when it comes to endorsing their attack on Cuba.
With this decision, the US government, through blackmail, threats and direct coercion against third countries, attempts to impose additional elements of pressure on the actions of economic suffocation which, since Trump’s first term, were established to prevent the entry of fuels to our country. It consolidates a dangerous form of conducting the US foreign policy through force and exercising its ambitions to secure imperialist hegemony. According to the announcement, that country arrogates to itself the right to dictate to sovereign States which nations they are allowed to trade with and which nations they are allowed to export their national products to.
The executive order issued by the president of the United States is therefore a flagrant violation of International Law and also attempts against the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. It ratifies that it is the government of that country the one that attempts against security, stability and peace in the region and the world.
The US government has reached this point after failing, for 67 years, in forcing the surrender of and destroying a genuine and legitimate political and revolutionary process of full sovereignty and social justice that promotes peace and solidarity with the rest of the world.
The historical disposition of Cuba to establish a serious and responsible dialogue with the government of the United States based on International Law, equal sovereignty, mutual respect, reciprocal benefit, without any interference in the internal affairs and with absolute respect for the independence and sovereignty of States is widely documented.
As the whole world knows, including the US government itself, Cuba does not constitute any threat whatsoever to the United States, its national interests or the wellbeing of the citizens of that country who, moreover, have always been treated with respect and hospitality whenever their government have allowed them to visit the Island. Cuba does not threaten or attack any country. It is not subject to sanctions by the international community. It is a peace-loving, fraternal and cooperative country, ready to help and support other States.
Cuba is also the country of a brave and combatant people. Imperialism makes a mistake when it is confident that, through a criminal economic pressure and the efforts to cause hardships to millions of persons, it will succeed in bending the Cuban people’s determination to defend national sovereignty and prevent the country from falling, once again, under the US domination.
The international community is now faced with the inescapable challenge to determine whether a crime of such nature could be the sign of what is yet to come, or if good sense, solidarity and the rejection of aggression, impunity and abuse shall prevail.
We will face this new onslaught with firmness and equanimity, convinced that reason is absolutely on our side. Our determination is one: Homeland or Death, We Shall Overcome!
Havana, January 30, 2026 —
