The President of the United States and his Secretary of State are deceiving the world about the truth regarding Cuba by sowing false ideas that the Cuban revolutionary system is a failure, while simultaneously obscuring reality.
Now they want everyone to believe that socialism is responsible for the economic crisis suffered by the Cuban people, when the truth is quite different from what their media campaigns claim.
Why don’t they mention that on December 23, 1958, when the Revolution had not yet triumphed, at a meeting of the U.S. National Security Council, the Director of the CIA stated: “We must prevent Castro’s victory,” and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter noted: “The opinion against supporting the Castro regime seems unanimous.”
In response to these arguments, President Dwight Eisenhower declared: “I have hope for a third force that will grow in strength and influence if it were organized around a capable man, equipped with funding and armaments.”
Fidel Castro had not yet come to power, nor nationalized American properties, much less declared a socialist system in Cuba, and already the United States government was attempting to obstruct the revolutionary triumph and place at the head of Cuba a man who would unhesitatingly answer to Washington’s orders.
Now Marco Rubio, with utter shamelessness, tries to make the world believe that the United States’ criminal policy toward Cuba bears no responsibility for the suffering of the Cuban people, as if he could magically erase the laws in force since 1960 that constitute the economic, commercial, and financial war, which aim to strangle the Cuban economy, as outlined in the Cuba Project, approved by the Security Council’s Enlarged Working Group in November 1961:
“Political action will be supported by economic warfare that induces the communist regime to fail in its efforts to satisfy the country’s needs; psychological operations will increase the population’s resentment against the regime; and military operations will give the popular movement a weapon for sabotage and armed resistance in support of political objectives.”
So, who is responsible for the Cuban economic crisis?
Let’s review what CIA Director Allen Dulles stated when he presented the Intelligence Estimate against the USSR to the Senate Intelligence Committee—criteria that now appear to be copied by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio in their anti-Cuban policy:
“Thanks to its diversified propaganda system, the United States must impose its vision, lifestyle, and particular interests on the rest of the world.”
“The ultimate goal of this global strategy is to defeat, in the realm of ideas, any alternatives to our dominance, through dazzling displays and persuasion, manipulation of the unconscious, usurpation of the collective imagination, and recolonization of redemptive and libertarian utopias, in order to achieve a paradoxical and disturbing result: that the victims come to understand and share the logic of their executioners.”
Donald Trump hardened Cuba’s policy from his first term, imposing 244 sanctions on the island, primarily aimed at curbing tourism and the inflow of Cuban currency. He eliminated the presidential directive approved by Barack Obama and imposed his own to further cripple the Cuban economy. He also reinstated Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism and imposed other sanctions, including pressure on governments that employ Cuban doctors to impede the flow of foreign currency.
Cuba is going through one of the most difficult periods in recent decades due to the intensification of the economic war, to which Trump added the energy blockade in 2026 by sanctioning countries that supply oil to Cuba. This measure violates the right of other countries to trade freely with Cuba and increases the suffering of the Cuban people, leading them to blame the socialist system for their problems. As Allen Dulles envisioned, this intensifies their powerful propaganda machine to win over the minds of those subjected to the harmful influence of the United States.
This further tightening of the economic war aims to provoke a popular rebellion, something they have failed to achieve. Therefore, there is a danger that, faced with this failure, they will attempt a military coup. Trump has lost popularity in the United States due to his involvement in the war against Iran and might hope to regain some ground by militarily attacking Cuba in order to impose a puppet government.
Trump allowed himself to be swayed by his advisors, who led him to believe that Iranian students and the people would support the aggression to change the government, given the protests by that sector days before the armed conflict began. But this proved to be a colossal mistake, among other things, because the Ayatollah, the spiritual leader of the Iranians, was killed, and those who had taken to the streets to protest—not the majority of the population—united against the invaders.
They want to extrapolate this same reality to Cuba, where some, exhausted by the lack of electricity due to the energy war measures implemented by Trump and not by the Cuban government, carried out pot-banging protests, directed from Miami through social media, where they were instructed to wear plain black clothing and cover their faces so as not to be identified.
Marco Rubio and the Miami terrorist mafia that finances his political campaign claim:
“Perhaps now there is an opportunity for change in Cuba.” Will the millions of Cubans who go hungry every day, without electricity or transportation, ever be able to forgive the government? “In Cuba, there are no shortages because of sanctions; there are shortages because of the system.” “The protests in Cuba are not organized from the outside; they are the result of hunger and desperation.” “What exists in Cuba is not an embargo against the people; it is absolute government control over the economy.” “Cuba’s problem is not a lack of resources; it is a lack of freedom.” “Their system doesn’t work; it is completely dysfunctional.” It’s simply not a real system, and you can’t change it without changing the government.”
If these things were true, why does the United States continue to relentlessly impose sanctions on Cuba and on nations that intend to invest and trade with the island?
Why are they now adding an energy embargo? What are the reasons for not allowing Americans to invest in the Cuban economy, engage in tourism, or participate in academic and cultural exchanges?
With utter shamelessness, Marco Rubio claims that Washington has not adopted any additional punitive measures against the Havana government. However, Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, declared on March 30, 2026, that there is no formal change in the sanctions policy toward Cuba and that a Russian oil tanker subject to US restrictions was only allowed to deliver 100,000 tons of crude oil to the island for humanitarian reasons.
The world knows what the economic war against Cuba means, and proof of this is the vote in favor of the document presented annually to the UN General Assembly.
The laws of the blockade exist, and They’re all available online, but it seems Marco Rubio hasn’t read them or is playing dumb, because everything from the Trading with the Enemy Act, enacted on October 19, 1960, by Eisenhower and extended annually by the president in office, to Cuba’s inclusion on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, explains why the Cuban government can’t achieve the economic progress it desires.
José Martí was right when he said: “The truth is one and simple.”
[ SOURCE: www.cubainformacion.tv / Arthur González’s Column (Cuban Herald) ]
