On January 29th, president Trump released an executive order threatening to impose tariffs on any country that provides Cuba with oil, tightening the nearly 65-year embargo and blockade on the country. These escalated sanctions and the recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela have compounded into an acute crisis that threatens the lives of the Cuban people. The U.S. continues to shamelessly wage a brutal conquest for control over Latin America to boost the profits of U.S. multinational corporations and crush the outposts of resistance to U.S. domination. Join us for our National Day of action on February 26 to demand: Hands off Cuba!
With the overthrow of the American-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista, by the Cuban people in 1958, the U.S. has continuously tried influencing Cuban politics and has been linked with hundreds of plots for assassination and destabilization. The most blatant example of U.S. imperialist aggression against the Cuban people was in 1961 with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in which the U.S. attempted a full-scale, amphibious invasion of Cuba with the goal of overthrowing the government and reestablishing Cuba as an American colonial outpost.
These attacks on Cuba are not isolated, but a core feature of the ongoing American imperialism that’s been exacted on Latin America and the Caribbean since the issuing of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, imperialist incursions across the region by the U.S. have been commonplace: the Obama administration supported the attempted coup d’etat by Juan Guido in Venezuela and the Eisenhower administration led the Bay of Pigs invasion.
It is unacceptable that Cuba must suffer under U.S. sanctions, especially when they have served as the largest exporter of doctors in the world and a beacon of hope for oppressed peoples. Trump may claim that Cuba “supports terrorism and destabilizes the region,” but we know that this accusation is merely a confession of U.S. foreign policy. Students for a Democratic Society stands in solidarity with the Cuban people and opposes U.S. economic aggression and intervention. We demand an end to the U.S. embargo and blockade on Cuba, and an end to U.S. intervention in Cuba.
HANDS OFF CUBA!
U.S. OUT OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN!
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