May Day Brigade in Cuba: Resisting the Blockade, Building Sovereignty, and International Solidarity - Ep 181

I want to talk to you about a country just 90 miles off the coast of Florida where the pressure from Washington is reaching a boiling point.

Let's talk about a country just 90 miles off the coast of Florida where the pressure from Washington is reaching a boiling point.

We're talking about Cuba and what the United States is doing to it right now.

For months, the Trump administration has been tightening its screws on Havana.

We're seeing a multi-front campaign that combines economic strangulation, high-level diplomatic pressure, lawfare, sabotage, and even threats of military force.

Apart from crippling economic blockade, Trump and Rubio have effectively imposed an oil blockade on the island, choking off fuel shipments.

The result has been devastating, severe blockouts with people reporting as little as two hours of power per day, food shortages and food running due to a lack of refrigeration, a sanitation crisis and collapse of the tourist industry.

a key source of its income.

Doctors report having to work on patients using only the lights of the cell phones.

Cuba's renowned medical system has 100,000 Cubans waiting for surgery, nearly 3,000 dialysis patients with disrupted treatment schedules, and 300 out of 395 native-produced medicines unavailable due to a lack of chemical components blocked by the sanctions regime.

Cuban officials report that even the survival rate of children with cancer has dropped due to the shortages.

Infant mortality has spiked in a country that had the lowest infant mortality in the hemisphere.

Despite all this, Cubans persevere and show resilience.

Cuba has been living under U.S. sanctions since 1961, and between the first Trump administration and the second one, sanctions on top of sanctions have been mounting on a small island nation of 11 million people.

This is what Trump calls a maximum pressure campaign, and the intention is to squeeze and suffocate his people into submission to a point that either the economy totally collapses or social disturbances arise to overthrow the government.

And why? For carrying out a successful socialist revolution 90 miles off the coast of the United States, for standing tall in its sovereignty and self-determination, and for refusing to submit.

After the American attacks on Venezuela on January 3rd, kidnapping of visiting President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and first combatant Celia Flores, Trump declared Cuba an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy.

Trump cut all oil shipments from Venezuela to Cuba and threatened any other nation with tariffs if it gave oil to Cuba.

If Americans lose their minds, the gas prices go up.

Try having no oil for decades.

Try having no oil in your country because another country is blocking it.

A military buildup is currently underway.

In each state, threats of military actions is coming out from the White House.

Cuba wants peace, but with peace with dignity.

The U.S. demands submission or war.

I want to talk to you about a country just 90 miles off the coast of Florida where the pressure from Washington is reaching a boiling point.

Let's talk about a country just 90 miles off the coast of Florida where the pressure from Washington is reaching a boiling point.

We're talking about Cuba and what the United States is doing to it right now.

For months, the Trump administration has been tightening its screws on Havana.

We're seeing a multi-front campaign that combines economic strangulation, high-level diplomatic pressure, lawfare, sabotage, and even threats of military force.

Apart from crippling economic blockade, Trump and Rubio have effectively imposed an oil blockade on the island, choking off fuel shipments.

The result has been devastating, severe blockouts with people reporting as little as two hours of power per day, food shortages and food running due to a lack of refrigeration, a sanitation crisis and collapse of the tourist industry.

a key source of its income.

Doctors report having to work on patients using only the lights of the cell phones.

Cuba's renowned medical system has 100,000 Cubans waiting for surgery, nearly 3,000 dialysis patients with disrupted treatment schedules, and 300 out of 395 native-produced medicines unavailable due to a lack of chemical components blocked by the sanctions regime.

Cuban officials report that even the survival rate of children with cancer has dropped due to the shortages.

Infant mortality has spiked in a country that had the lowest infant mortality in the hemisphere.

Despite all this, Cubans persevere and show resilience.

Cuba has been living under U.S. sanctions since 1961, and between the first Trump administration and the second one, sanctions on top of sanctions have been mounting on a small island nation of 11 million people.

This is what Trump calls a maximum pressure campaign, and the intention is to squeeze and suffocate his people into submission to a point that either the economy totally collapses or social disturbances arise to overthrow the government.

And why? For carrying out a successful socialist revolution 90 miles off the coast of the United States, for standing tall in its sovereignty and self-determination, and for refusing to submit.

After the American attacks on Venezuela on January 3rd, kidnapping of visiting President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and first combatant Celia Flores, Trump declared Cuba an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy.

Trump cut all oil shipments from Venezuela to Cuba and threatened any other nation with tariffs if it gave oil to Cuba.

If Americans lose their minds, the gas prices go up.

Try having no oil for decades.

Try having no oil in your country because another country is blocking it.

A military buildup is currently underway.

In each state, threats of military actions is coming out from the White House.

Cuba wants peace, but with peace with dignity.

The U.S. demands submission or war.