Cuba in the Crosshairs of Imperialism: Defend the Sovereignty and the Gains of the Revolution

Cuba is facing its worst economic moment since the triumph of the 1959 revolution. Since his first term, Trump has steadily tightened the economic siege on the country, making the infamous internat…

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Cuba Must Not Fall!
The survival of Cuba’s socialist project remains one of the most critical holdouts against hemispheric domination, making its defense a global litmus test for sovereignty.
https://resumen-english.org/2026/02/cuba-must-not-fall/

from #ResumenLatinoamericano
by Isaac Saney
Feb 7, 2026

The struggle to defend the #CubanRevolution—to preserve #Cuba’s independence, sovereignty, and right to self-determination—is not simply the struggle of a small #Caribbean nation resisting a powerful neighbour. Nor is it confined to the geographical contours of an island of eleven million people. It is, rather, a struggle with profound and incalculable consequences for #LatinAmerica, the Caribbean, and the global fight for justice, human dignity, and the right of peoples to live free from imperialist diktat.

...Cuba asserted the radical proposition that a small, formerly colonized country could chart its own path, control its own resources, and prioritize social justice over foreign capital.

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Cuba Must Not Fall!

By Isaac Saney on February 7, 2026 The survival of Cuba’s socialist project remains one of the most critical holdouts against hemispheric domination, making its defense a global litmus test for sov…

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Before Castro's successful #CubanRevolution, life for the masses was grim under dictator Batista, who welcomed US mafia, other gangsters to Havana to run casinos, hotels.

Castro brought em excellent healthcare, education, gender & racial equality, even a world class ballet company & more despite a crippling US-led #SugarEmbargo.

But sugar was #Cuba's main export & despite conducting studies into other ways to counter the hit to the economy - incl exploring for
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Before Castro's successful #CubanRevolution, life for the masses was grim under dictator Batista, who welcomed US mafia, other gangsters to Havana to run casinos, hotels. Castro brought em excellent healthcare, education, even a world class ballet company & more despite US-led sugar embargo. 1

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US announces $6M in aid for Cu...
Autonomies: **For Frank Fernández (1932–2026)**

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Cuba and the anarchists have a long history of the pursuit of freedom. The early labour struggles, the important contributions to Cuban independence from Spain, their protest against U.S. interventions, their critical attitudes toward social problems during the two republics, … Continue reading →

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For Frank Fernández (1932–2026) | Autonomies

Capitalist exploitation of Cuba by the United States and Fulgencio Batista (US puppet leader of Cuba) before the Cuban Revolution.

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#fulgenciobatista
#antiimperialism
#anticolonialism
#cheguevara
#usempire

Telex from Cuba is the 2008 debut novel by writer Rachel Kushner. The novel follows a group of anglo-expatriates living in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution and was loosely based on Kushner's mother's experience growing up in Cuba on territory occupied by the United Fruit Company. - Wikipedia

I found this much harder to get into than Creation Lake as it lacked a central character, but it was worth the effort, and now know more about Cuba before the revolution, at least from the point of view of the privileged Americans working and living there.

#RachelKushner #Novels #Reading #Cuba #Batista #Castro #CubanRevolution

Two years after the end of the #CubanRevolution, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations with #Cuba. Ties were not restored until 2015, 54 years later, though America's illegal trade embargo on the Caribbean country remains in place.
The #CubanRevolution concluded victoriously on #ThisDayInHistory in 1959 with the overthrow of brutal US-backed dictator #FulgencioBatista. The uprising & revolution were led by #FidelCastro, and the country has tried to uphold his #socialist vision ever since, with some success.