"Cuba has similarly deployed doctors in poor countries around the world to deliver health care to populations under-supported by multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and bilateral Western aid."
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/26/u...
"In the era of the Donroe Doctrine, which explicitly demands unquestioned U.S. primacy and resource monopolies in the Americas, the persistence of a sovereign, anti-imperialist project just 90 miles from Florida is an intolerable ideological irritant."
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But Cuba has historically responded to pressure with adaptation, not surrender.
The question now isn’t just Cuba’s resilience.
It’s whether countries like Mexico will defy U.S. coercion — or reinforce it.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba entered the Special Period.
Severe contraction. Energy shortages. Hardship.
Washington appears to believe history can be repeated — this time to trigger the collapse of the Cuban Government.
This is the architecture of the embargo after 60+ years.
It doesn’t just target the Cuban state — it blocks normal economic integration.
The objective is triggering a humanitarian collapse.
The U.S. strategy is straightforward:
Weaponize market dominance to force third countries into compliance.
Trade with Cuba → risk U.S. retaliation.
Comply with Washington → protect your economy.
Mexico became Cuba’s primary oil supplier in recent years under Claudia Sheinbaum.
Not enough to replace past Venezuelan levels — but enough to prevent systemic breakdown.
Trump signed an order imposing tariffs on any country that exports oil to Cuba.
This is deliberate economic warfare designed to isolate the island completely.
With Venezuela destabilized and Maduro removed, Cuba has lost its key trading partner.
In the wake of the coup in Venezuela, Washington has moved to intensify pressure on Cuba. 🧵
With Maduro gone and Venezuela’s oil under U.S. "oversight," Mexico is the only thing standing between Cuba and a potential humanitarian collapse. 🇲🇽⚖️🇨🇺
"For decades, the Cuban government has sent thousands of health professionals to work in remote villages and cities in dozens of countries."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
"Trump’s escalation is the cornerstone of his administration’s “Donroe Doctrine,” a 21st-century revival of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that declares the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean to be US property."
savageminds.substack.com/p/trumps-ult...
Trump has Cuba in his crosshairs. 🇨🇺
Washington is using tariffs to force Mexico to abandon Cuba. By cutting off oil lifelines following the coup in Venezuela, the US is intentionally engineering a humanitarian crisis.
Read the full article here:
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/trumps-new...
"Since 1960, some 600,000 Cuban medical professionals have provided free health care in over 180 countries. The government of Cuba has assumed the lion’s share of the cost of its medical internationalism, a huge contribution to the Global South"
jacobin.com/2025/03/cuba...
Trump’s latest tariff threats put Cuba’s energy lifeline and the island’s economy under renewed strain.
With oil shipments threatened, Cuba confronts a looming humanitarian and economic crisis that could rival the 1990s Special Period.
populareducationblog.substack.com/p/trumps-new...
"The goal of the US government has been to asphyxiate the Cuban economy as a means of undermining the Cuban Revolution and bullying Cubans into relinquishing their sovereignty and right to self-determination."
jacobin.com/2023/06/us-c...
A naval blockade isn't a "measure"—it's an escalation that risks lives and regional stability. The Trump admin is willing to trigger a massive humanitarian crisis just to prove it can control the trade of sovereign nations.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
