Russia's UNIVERSAL, a 242,000 barrel tanker initially bound for Cuba, has changed course and is now heading to South America instead.

Sadly Moscow obeys the U.S. blockade.

The New York Times reports a Chinese tanker bound for Cuba also diverted towards South America earlier this year.

#cuba #cubablockade #russia #china #uspol

The US effectively denied entry to the Russian tanker Universal, which was carrying approximately 270,000 barrels of diesel fuel destined for Cuba.

The sanctioned vessel stalled roughly 1,000 miles off the Cuban coast in mid-April and has since altered course away from the island amid ongoing US enforcement of energy restrictions.

Why the fuck is US is blocking Cuba and no one lifting a finger to help them?

This is so fucking upsetting.

#Cuba #Cubablockade #US #USpol #Impelralism #Politics #Russia

The U.S. government has issued subpoenas to #HassanPiker and Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin over their aid efforts to Cuba. This move is part of a broader investigation into potential violations of U.S. laws and sanctions related to Cuba. #CubaBlockade

Hassan Piker criticized the U.S. government, stating they prefer to “criminalize delivering aid” rather than addressing issues with the “upseat class.... https://instagr.am/p/DYuJP6YkY0q/

Does Cuba even have oil or gas?
No?
Oh good — then it’s definitely time for the U.S. to “increase pressure,” threaten sanctions, cut off energy supplies, and start floating unverified drone invasion stories.
Because let’s be real: the U.S. doesn’t invade for democracy.
It invades for resources — or invents threats when there are none.
Cuba’s crime? Being socialist. And existing 90 miles from Florida.
Meanwhile, actual dictators with oil get photo ops at Mar-a-Lago.

🇺🇸 “Bloodbath warning from Havana? Must be time for more sanctions and a few ‘classified intelligence’ leaks.”
Same playbook, different decade.

#USHypocrisy #CubaBlockade #Trump #Nutcase #Greed #Usa

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/cuba-warns-of-bloodbath-as-trump-increases-pressure-on-havana/jihoukapv

Blockade of Cuba
Cartoon by Tjeerd Royaards

#Cuba #USA_fascism #PoliticalCartoon #uspol #CubaSolidarity #USterror #embargo #CubaBlockade #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvqeXFnqXCo

#cuba #hasan #hasanabi #hasanpiker #lemonboy #minidoc #aid #humanitarianaidmission #cubablockade #unitedstates #us #usa

While the world watches other wars, the U.S. has quietly strangled Cuba with an oil blockade that's plunged 11 million people into blackouts, shortages, and despair.

No fuel imports for months → nationwide power grid collapse → families without lights, food rotting, hospitals struggling.

This isn't 'diplomacy'—it's collective punishment, called out by UN experts as a violation of international law and a grave humanitarian threat. #CubaBlockade #EndTheEmbargo #HumanRights

A blockade is an act of war.

This is a non-controversial definition. The USA under Trump has been at war on Cuba. Trump is trying to starve and inflict massive widespread humanitarian damage on Cuban people. There was no provocation, no mutual escalation. It is a war atrocity. So let's call it what it is. He has that way to stirring up so many crises you can't keep up attention and I haven't been any better about that than most people but what's happening need attention.

#Cuba #CubaBlockade #WarOnCuba #TrumpWarCrimes #Trump

History lesson for y'all (MAGA) cheering on an overthrow of the Cuban government. The "independence" we promised was always wrapped in our own interests.

1854: The Ostend Manifesto. A secret document suggesting that if Spain wouldn't sell Cuba, the US should take it by force. Why? Southern expansionists wanted to turn Cuba into a new slave state.

1868–1878: The Ten Years War. Cubans fought for independence from Spain. The US refused to recognize them, preferring "stability" and trade over Cuban freedom.

1896–1897: The Reconcentración Horror. Spanish General Valeriano "The Butcher" Weyler forced the rural population into concentration camps. ~400,000 Cubans died of starvation and disease. The US used this tragedy as the moral "in" for the Spanish-American War.

April 1898: The Teller Amendment. To prove we weren't just land grabbing, Congress passed a pinky swear claiming the US had no intention of exercising sovereignty over Cuba and would leave once it was "pacified."

December 1898: The Treaty of Paris. Spain officially gave up Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. The U.S. began a military occupation of Cuba that lasted almost four years.

1901: The Platt Amendment. This is the betrayal. The US forced Cuba to write it into their own Constitution as a condition for the US military leaving. It gave the US the legal right to intervene in Cuban affairs at will and established the naval base at Guantanamo Bay.

May 20, 1902: "Independence." The US withdrew its troops, but Cuba was left as a "protectorate," independent on paper, but tethered to U.S. policy until 1934.

1934: The Good Neighbor Policy. Under FDR, the US repealed the Platt Amendment, giving up its "legal" right to invade. The Catch? We kept the lease on Guantanamo Bay indefinitely and shifted from military control to economic dominance, backing "stable" dictators like Batista to protect U.S. sugar interests.

1952–1958: The US backed the brutal Batista dictatorship because he kept Cuba open for business for the Mafia and US sugar companies.

1960–Present: The Longest Embargo in History. After the 1959 Revolution nationalized US property, the U.S. shifted to "economic warfare."

2026: We are currently seeing an energy blockade so severe it has paralyzed the island's hospitals and schools. 120+ years after we "promised" independence, we are still using the island as a geopolitical chessboard.

When we talk about "independence" in this region, we have to look at the strings we've been pulling for 170 years.

#AntiWar #OffTheList #CubaBlockade #NoMasBloqueo #Cuba2026 #CubanHistory #USHistory #USImperialism #History #USPol #USA #Cuba #SpanishAmericanWar #ForeignPolicy