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Cuba says Trump’s fresh sanctions on its economy amount to ‘collective punishment’

Cuba’s government has said new sanctions imposed on the island by Donald Trump amounted to “collective punishment”, as an enormous 1 May procession outside the American embassy in Havana vowed to “defend the homeland”.

In an executive order on Friday, the US president said he would impose sanctions on people involved in broad sections of the Cuban economy, as he seeks to put more pressure on Havana after ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this year.

The latest sanctions constituted “collective punishment” of the nation’s people, said Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez. “We firmly reject the recent unilateral coercive measures adopted by the #UnitedStates government,” he posted on X in English.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Signs That Things Could Be Ramping Up in Cuba

It’s not a done deal but the situation in Iran appears to be heading for an off-ramp just as the situation in Cuba might be gearing up. Here’s what we know at the moment. First, U.S. officials quietly visited Cuba last Friday to directly make the case for reform.

NOW – Trump says very soon the "great strength" of the American military will create "a new dawn for Cuba." pic.twitter.com/EW3kjmaoqC

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 17, 2026

This is what communism does. This is Cuba:pic.twitter.com/fDeIEIwzA6

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) March 21, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•April 18, 2026April 17, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

The Plot Against the Cuban Embargo

At a CUNY-hosted conference, apologists for Cuba’s Communist regime planned street protests and discussed strategies for bypassing U.S. sanctions.

On March 14 and 15, the City University of New York hosted a U.S.–Cuba normalization conference titled “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” At the gathering, activists praised Iranian drones, touted Cuba’s intelligence apparatus, and outlined an “action plan” centered on sustained street protests.

by Blazingcatfur•April 9, 2026April 9, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Beware These Cuban Headlines: EU ‘Aid,’ Castro Kids, and 2,010 Prisoners

Donald Trump’s been talking about a Cuban takeover “soon” for a couple of months now. This week, while appearing on Hannity on Fox News, Marco Rubio suggested that we’ll “have more news [on Cuba] fairly soon.”

I think prioritizing Cuba is sort of on hold until we’re finished up in Iran, but the MSM is doing its best to keep it in the headlines in the worst of ways. The goal is, as always, to make Trump, Rubio, and the United States look stupid, while making the regime look stoic and ready to progress, as if after nearly 70 years, it has seen the light. It has not. The leftists in the U.S. have some sort of gross desire to romanticize this island hellhole.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2026April 4, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Poll finds 51% of Canadians want aid sent to Cuba even if it angers U.S.

When it comes to Cuba, whose tourism has sunk due to a U.S. oil blockade, just over half of Canadians say to send aid even if the U.S. might not like it.

This according to a new Angus Reid poll that found 51% of Canadians want Canada to provide aid while 31% believe maintaining positive relations with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is more important.

The entirety of those polled was Justin and and his brother.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2026April 4, 2026•0•Canada, Cuba, USA, WTF?

Cuba says it will release over 2,000 prisoners, as U.S. keeps up pressure

The Cuban government on Thursday said it would release 2,010 inmates from its prisons in a “humanitarian and sovereign gesture,” announcing a sweeping pardon as the Trump administration continues its pressure campaign to isolate the island through a de facto oil blockade.

The announcement, reported in the state-run newspaper Granma, marks one of the largest prisoner releases in the country in recent years. The government said it chose whom to pardon based on the crimes committed, “their good conduct in prison, the fact that they had served a significant portion of their sentence, and their state of health,” according to Granma.

by Blazingcatfur•April 3, 2026April 3, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Kneecap’s breathtaking Cuban hypocrisy

White rappers are a stupid idea. Irish White rappers up the stupidity level beyond measurement.

While most Cold War cultural battlegrounds have long been paved over or turned into a theme park, Cuba has retained a place in the hearts and minds of the West’s luxury leftists.

Beautiful weather, sandy beaches, famous cigars and, of course, a long-standing enmity with the USA have all ensured the country remains perhaps the last stubborn redoubt of revolutionary, western hipsterism. So it made perfect sense that leading the charge in last weekend’s much trumpeted ‘aid flotilla’ to the island nation was the Irish language-speaking novelty rap act, Kneecap.

I thought Greta was supposed to be there too!

by Blazingcatfur•March 24, 2026March 24, 2026•0•Celebrity Idiots, Cuba, USA, WTF?

China Is About to Lose Its Cuban Military Bases

Cuban society, due to a U.S. naval embargo, is close to collapse.

Friends of Havana blame the U.S., but the Trump administration had to act before China turned the island into a military bastion.

America took control of Venezuela’s national oil company, PDVSA, after the January 3 raid that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Then the U.S. stopped the flow of Venezuelan oil to the Cuban regime.

by Blazingcatfur•March 24, 2026March 24, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Cuba, USA

Canadian companies could face big losses as change looms in Cuba

In Havana on Friday, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, argued that Canada should maintain the commercial relationship with Cuba that has made it the country’s largest foreign investor after Spain.

“Since 1972, it has maintained the largest flow of visitors to Cuba. It is an important relationship,” said de Cossío, who once served as Cuba’s ambassador in Ottawa.

“There are important trade relations. There is foreign investment…. Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 23, 2026March 22, 2026•0•Canada, Cuba, USA

Cuba’s power grid collapses in third nationwide blackout amid US oil blockade

Cuba’s power grid collapsed on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a US-imposed oil blockade.

The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage.

The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.

BREAKING: Hasan fires back at criticism for staying in a five-star hotel during his “humanitarian aid” trip to Cuba—blames U.S. policy.

“The government makes it illegal for us to stay where we want in Cuba. We have to stay in five-star hotels.” 🤣
pic.twitter.com/h2Rj6mHE8Q

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 22, 2026

THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE THIS 🇨🇺

Members of the VIP flotilla of Pablo Iglesias and Hasan Piker throw food at Cuban children to dance while they record videos for their social networks.

The man recording is saying, how disrespectful is taking advantage of the misery of the Cuban… https://t.co/hJv9T5Ae7B pic.twitter.com/QNe5dlGWCY

— Reynier de la Torre (@ReynierDeLaTor1) March 22, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•March 23, 2026March 22, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Should Canada Support Cuba’s Ruthless Regime Asks Star?

As Cuba faces mounting crises, should Canada increase its foreign aid and should Ottawa support U.S. efforts to force a regime change?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Cuba — “friendly” or “not friendly” — have landed like a grenade in a debate Canadians thought they understood. For decades, Ottawa’s approach to Havana has been built on engagement, not confrontation. Now Washington is demanding a harder line, tightening sanctions, threatening tariffs on countries that ship oil to the island and dangling the prospect of regime change.

But within Canada, the choice is not simple. Most Canadians who follow Cuba closely agree the communist government has a dismal human-rights record and that ordinary Cubans are suffering. They disagree sharply on whether pressure and sanctions will liberate those Cubans — or bury them.

I doubt many Canadians are worrying about Cuba other than where to go for their next vacay.

🚨BREAKING: Footage from outside the hotel in Cuba where the communist flotilla, Pablo Iglesias, Hasan Piker, Code Pink, and other useful idiots and VIP propagandists lounge in comfort while Cubans are left in the dark during a nationwide blackout.

The entire island is without… pic.twitter.com/wxbxO9OaiD

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 22, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•March 22, 2026March 22, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Cuba, USA, WTF?

Sandalista lefties arrive in Cuba, sing ‘Guantamanera’ boarding the tour buses to go look at poor people

Some things I can’t unsee.

Such as the sight of left-wing Sandalista supporters of Cuba’s heinous communist regime, boarding red tour buses in Havana while singing ‘Guantamanera’ together like it’s ‘Day-O’ in Jamaica on a Caribbean Cruise line vacay and driving off to see the poor people.

Not to be outdone …

Marxist-Leninists urge Canadians to travel to Cuba despite fuel crisis

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•March 22, 2026March 21, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

The ‘hero’ Florida mother labelled a terrorist by Cuban regime

There were times during her incarceration in Fidel Castro’s “punishment cells” that Maritza Lugo Fernández was so physically and mentally depleted, she thought she had died and gone to hell.

She has never forgotten the screams of fellow prisoners, the brutality of their persecutors, the bodies wrapped in blankets tossed lying in jail yards, the thousands locked away, tortured or killed for standing up against communism.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2026March 20, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

US military is not preparing for Cuba takeover, top general tells lawmakers

The US military is not rehearsing for an invasion of Cuba or actively preparing to militarily take over the island, the top general overseeing American forces in Latin America has told lawmakers.

But Gen Francis Donovan, head of US Southern Command, said the Pentagon stands ready to address any threats to the US embassy in Havana, defend its base at Guantánamo Bay and aid US government efforts to address any mass migration from the island, if needed.

Donovan’s remarks came during a Senate hearing focused on Donald Trump’s increasing use of the US military in Latin America, where his administration has reasserted the idea that the region falls into Washington’s zone of influence.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2026March 20, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Cuba vows ‘unbreakable resistance’ to any takeover attempt

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has responded to takeover threats from Donald Trump, saying that the US would face “unbreakable resistance” if it tried to seize the country.

His remarks come as Cuba struggles with a multitude of economic woes largely brought about by pressure from the US, which is trying to cut off the flow of foreign currency and oil to the Caribbean island.

In his comments on X, Diaz-Canel accused the US of threatening “almost daily” to overthrow his country’s constitutional order by force, using as its pretext a weakened economy that Washington itself had “attacked and sought to isolate for more than six decades.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 18, 2026March 18, 2026•0•Cuba, USA