U.S. Peace Council, May 20, 2026 —
The U.S. Peace Council sharply condemns the Trump administration for repeatedly threatening to militarily invade Cuba, bomb and destroy schools and hospitals — as the U.S. did to Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Iran and many other states that assert their sovereignty and defy U.S. imperialist diktats, and overthrow Cuba’s socialist state — most recently through the Presidential executive order signed on May 1, 2026, and Trump’s open threat to “take over” Cuba.
The U.S. Peace Council condemns the Trump administration’s threats to abduct and indict on bogus charges one of Cuba’s revolutionary heroes, Raúl Castro, in ways similar to the kidnapping and imprisonment of Venezuela’s leaders Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.
We condemn the U.S. imperialists for cutting Cuba’s oil imports to zero and negating its ability to do business with any public or private entity across the planet. We denounce actions by corporate media to downplay the devastating consequences of the imperialist economic war that is intended to make the Cuban economy “scream;” intended to generate a counterrevolution while blaming the Cuban government for grid failure, lack of food, reduced tourism, and the immiseration of the Cuban people. Difficulties in the Cuban economy track closely to the impact of the economic blockade. Cuba’s Infant mortality, for decades lower than that of the United States, doubled since Trump and former President Biden laid harsh economic sanctions on Cuba. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the rate has risen from 4.9 to 9.9 per 1,000 live births. Yet even with this rise, Cuba’s infant mortality remains lower than that of African Americans in the U.S., a testament to a socialist health care system that prioritizes the most vulnerable.
What is so fragile about the United States that allowing Cuba to import medical sutures, syringes and saline solution is a national security threat? What is so threatening to the U.S. that it has to starve Cuba of oil, thus cutting off power to hospitals — including infant incubators — and blocking chemotherapy medications for children with cancer? What perverted pleasure can the moguls of Washington and Wall Street take by eliminating gasoline for ambulances to transport patients and diesel for trucks that carry food across the island? How does blocking tourists from enjoying Cuba’s beaches and famous music scene make anyone other than a few Cuba-hating psychopaths more secure?
Revolutionary Cuba kicked out the mafia and other extractive corporations in 1959. Now Donald Trump wants to re-establish their grip on the island, returning it to colonial status. He wants to anoint Marco Rubio, who has never lived in Cuba, as the president of that country. If the American people refuse to bow down to a king here, why would we agree to impose one on Cuba?
Why would Cubans look to the United States, where homelessness is one missing paycheck away, running their country, restricting their access to education, healthcare, food and housing security, as a model? Why would the Cuban people want to mimic the failure of the U.S. economy to provide for its citizens?
The U.S. ruling class treats its violations of Cuba’s sovereignty as normal, everyday business, just as it treats abiding by its solemn international agreements and treaties, like International Law and the UN Charter, as optional for itself and binding only on the other parties.
Since the Cuban revolution of 1959, the U.S. has showered one atrocity after another on the Cuban people. The list of invasions, attempted assassinations, bombings, chemical warfare and maniacal lies is long and sordid. Yet the Cuban people have resisted. They have defended their homeland. They have creatively dealt with economic warfare waged by the behemoth to the north. The Cuban people, at great cost to their livelihoods, have succeeded in forging admiration for Cuba throughout the world even as U.S. bullying, gangster actions, and support for genocide have turned our country into a pariah state.
What the capitalist class cannot stomach is that Cuba — a forcefully-impoverished country with few natural resources but with the resourcefulness of its people and solidarity from friends it has made across the globe — has succeeded in providing for human needs where the richest country in the history of the world falls miserably short.
Cuba overcame illiteracy, which the United States has failed to do. Cuba transformed a system of healthcare for the rich before the revolution to a system of healthcare that equals to or surpasses most other countries. Cuba overcame homelessness, which today plagues the United States. Cuba has succeeded in tackling the scourge of systemic racism, which today plagues and corrupts this country.
With its offer of free medical education, even to students from the USA, Cuba has produced doctors that serve some of the most oppressed peoples around the world, including besieged Palestinians, and similarly shares its own physicians and health care workers where they are most needed through the Henry Reeves Brigade.
The U.S. Peace Council joins other peace organizations, unions, faith-based and social justice groups in demanding:
- An immediate end to the more than six decade old economic and financial blockade, including the latest fuel blockade in all its forms;
- An immediate end to the threats to invade Cuba with guarantees against such invasions;
- An immediate end to threats to abduct Cuba’s leaders;
- Cessation of the lying propaganda that denies Cuba’s successes and blames Cuba’s government for the effects of the illegal blockade;
- Normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba as close neighbors;
- Establishment of cooperation in medicine, ecology, sports, culture and other mutually beneficial fields;
- Immediate withdrawal of the U.S. from Guantanamo Bay;
- Full respect for the Cuban people’s right to self-determination and sovereignty.
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See also: USPC Cuba statement 2026.2.11: https://uspeacecouncil.org/let-cuba-live-end-the-imperialist-blockade-now/
