It condemns Trump’s latest measures and calls for international solidarity.

On Monday, Progressive International called on countries around the world to support Cuba in the face of a new episode of economic warfare unleashed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump against the Cuban Revolution.

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Launched in May 2020, Progressive International is a platform whose mission is to unite, organize and mobilize the world’s progressive forces. It currently brings together more than 100 organizations representing millions of people across all inhabited continents.

Its Cabinet is led by David Adler and includes international figures such as former Ecuadorian presidential candidate Andres Arauz, Chilean Chamber of Deputies President Karol Cariola, and British Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn.

Below is the statement issued by Progressive International titled, “Cuba Stood for the World. Now, the World Must Rise for Cuba.”

“The Cabinet of Progressive International is united in its conviction that the United States’ latest escalation of its blockade against Cuba — an executive order authorizing punitive tariffs on any country that dares supply oil to the island — is a cruel and criminal act of economic warfare that will bring nothing but starvation, deprivation and despair to its people.

We will not mince words. The ‘policy’ of the Trump administration is a total siege: a modern mechanism for collective punishment designed to strangle life itself by cutting off fuel for hospitals, schools, water, transport and food distribution.

Cuba already faces severe fuel shortages, with daily blackouts and essential services collapsing under the weight of sanctions and depleted imports. Cuba’s remaining oil stocks could run out in mere weeks, threatening the lives of millions who have done nothing to justify this escalation.

This is the culmination of a long-standing strategy articulated in U.S. law — from the sweeping embargo codified by the Helms-Burton Act in the 1990s to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations first enforced in the 1960s — which openly sought to apply ‘maximum pressure’ to force political transformation in Havana and defeat a vanguard in the struggle against U.S. hemispheric domination.

Now, with this new executive order, the logic of siege has reached its apotheosis: sanctioning not only Cuba but every nation that dares show solidarity, effectively demanding that sovereign states choose between the interests of their own people and the dictates of an empire.

Already, Mexico — Cuba’s last significant oil lifeline — has been thrust into uncertainty, warned that continued support could trigger tariffs on its economy. In doing so, Trump has revealed so-called ‘secondary sanctions’ as the empire’s principal weapon against international solidarity.

Trump has been clear: this siege is merely a springboard toward regime change. It is the same strategic blueprint that saw Venezuela’s sovereignty undermined, its oil lifelines severed, and its people plunged into crisis while the world stood by in lethargy.

We cannot repeat that failure. The international community was too slow to prevent the bombardment of Caracas; we must not remain passive while the groundwork is laid for similar violence against the people of Cuba.

If Cuba is to survive as an independent nation, it will be because of the continued resilience and vitality of its revolutionary project — and the solidarity of movements and nations around the world defying empire and rising to challenge this injustice.

We must organize community support networks, coordinate diplomatic resistance, demand that governments refuse to enforce secondary tariffs, and amplify Cuban voices against this assault on international law, human dignity and basic human rights.

These efforts, both within and beyond Progressive International, must accelerate — today. History will judge those who recognized this moment and turned away. Cuba stood with oppressed peoples around the world — from defeating apartheid in South Africa to sending doctors to the front lines of epidemics — and now it is our time to act with audacity, moral courage and collective force.

Stand with the Cuban people now; stand against this siege, this economic assault, this unfolding humanitarian disaster; unite in providing essential supplies to the island, from medicine to food to fuel for its people; and stand for the right of all nations to self-determination and human dignity — or be complicit in its destruction.”

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Source: International Progressive

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