Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 10 segments
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Yeah, I think we have to stress because there's so much propaganda out there that the suffering of the Cuban people right now, it has nothing to do with, quote, unquote, "The crisis of the Cuban system," right? It's nothing like that.
The, this is a purposeful, um, uh, uh, severe punishment that's being imposed by the United States.
Of course, any island, w- even Britain is an island, right? If you cut off, uh, supplies coming from outside the island, that's going to create tremendous amount of suffering.
Cuba is a small island.
It has about 11 million people.
So you cut out the shipment of oil, you cut out the ship- shipment of certain kinds of foods, and of course it's gonna create tremendous suffering, pain, and even death.
Um, it's absolutely horrific.
Uh, but, um, we're not surprised that US imperialism is doing that because, um, it's part and parcel of more than 100 years of, of violence that US, the US ruling class uses against anybody who dares to raise a finger against them.
Yeah.
This has been a policy, a bipartisan policy of both parties, presidents going back to the 1960s in a direct line.
Uh, but it's never got to this dire level before where you have...
If you think about what, what it does when you have a fuel blockade, you're taking the bottom out of the entire, uh, infrastructure of society.
You can't have, you know, agriculture operate, but schools are shutting down, hospitals are shutting down.
People are starving.
This is affecting, uh, grocery stores.
You can't get drinking water out of the ground.
The electricity grid is...
I mean, to target civilian infrastructure in a way that makes everything impossible.
People have no fans in the sweltering heat.
Their homes become ovens.
They're having to sleep outside in some cases.
You know, people are just, uh, massed around in the streets.
It's...
There was a comrade, uh, from Mexico that traveled to Cuba this summer and said, "I come from a poor country.
Yeah, I think we have to stress because there's so much propaganda out there that the suffering of the Cuban people right now, it has nothing to do with, quote, unquote, "The crisis of the Cuban system," right? It's nothing like that.
The, this is a purposeful, um, uh, uh, severe punishment that's being imposed by the United States.
Of course, any island, w- even Britain is an island, right? If you cut off, uh, supplies coming from outside the island, that's going to create tremendous amount of suffering.
Cuba is a small island.
It has about 11 million people.
So you cut out the shipment of oil, you cut out the ship- shipment of certain kinds of foods, and of course it's gonna create tremendous suffering, pain, and even death.
Um, it's absolutely horrific.
Uh, but, um, we're not surprised that US imperialism is doing that because, um, it's part and parcel of more than 100 years of, of violence that US, the US ruling class uses against anybody who dares to raise a finger against them.
Yeah.
This has been a policy, a bipartisan policy of both parties, presidents going back to the 1960s in a direct line.
Uh, but it's never got to this dire level before where you have...
If you think about what, what it does when you have a fuel blockade, you're taking the bottom out of the entire, uh, infrastructure of society.
You can't have, you know, agriculture operate, but schools are shutting down, hospitals are shutting down.
People are starving.
This is affecting, uh, grocery stores.
You can't get drinking water out of the ground.
The electricity grid is...
I mean, to target civilian infrastructure in a way that makes everything impossible.
People have no fans in the sweltering heat.
Their homes become ovens.
They're having to sleep outside in some cases.
You know, people are just, uh, massed around in the streets.
It's...
There was a comrade, uh, from Mexico that traveled to Cuba this summer and said, "I come from a poor country.
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