cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44615798

March 17, 2026

Cuba does not represent a threat of any kind to the United States or to any other country in the world, as Donald Trump has claimed. The “problem with Cuba” is that it spread its example of solidarity and internationalism within a destructive capitalism that expresses the opposite.

The “problem with Cuba” is that it has been and is an example of self-determination and resistance against the criminal blockade. It is the example of having become involved in the struggle to end the South African apartheid regime. It is the example it provided when it received the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. It is the exemplary commitment of the medical and health missions that Cuba sends to dozens of countries, and that has deepened as a policy in the middle of the pandemic, when no other country dared to do so.