Statement from the Cuban Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity
Imperialism coldly plans its timing. Every step is part of its historical obsession to seize control of Cuba.
To the historic blockade—the longest in history—it added a fuel embargo, using blackmail and threats against anyone who tries to sell oil to Cuba. This was followed by a series of sanctions imposed between January 29 and May 7.
Against this backdrop of calculated deprivations that border on suffocation, and amidst the titanic efforts of the Cuban Revolutionary Government to install solar energy sources, a ship arrived in April, sent by Russia, which helped alleviate the dire energy situation.
It is no coincidence that, with fuel running out and summer approaching, the Trump administration played two cards: requesting permission for a visit from the CIA director and offering $100 million in humanitarian aid.
Amid enormous pressure, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s pronouncement, “Cuba is a failed state,” has become a mantra. This is compounded by Trump’s belief: “They’ll come after us.”
Marco Rubio pulled the warning from his treasure trove of lies: “Chinese and Russian bases installed in Cuba are a threat to the Western Hemisphere.”
It’s all absolutely false, and they all know it: from the congressmen who visited Cuba to the mainstream media.
This isn’t a diagnosis; it’s the perverse planning of a decadent empire targeting what it believes is its ripe fruit. Now, the new narrative has begun: “Cuban drones will be activated.” They are trying to prepare the final blow.
Their defeat in Iran, the proximity of the midterm elections, the signatures of more than six million Cubans willing to defend their sovereignty, their failure to incite an internal uprising, and the realization that the people continue to work and resist have them desperate.
The anti-Cuban fascist minority entrenched in Florida has finally found a government to ride on, pressure, and try to subdue by blackmailing it with their votes. They want a quick victory. They want to reinstate the casino, the drugs, and prostitution. They want the port, the schools, the nationalized properties.
This is the empire’s haste when it feels time slipping away.
A fierce blockade of more than six decades has not helped them understand the cost of their punitive and failed policy. They don’t understand the people they are dealing with.
This is the same people and the same Rebel Army that, after years of internationalist struggle in Africa, sat down at a negotiating table where imperialism tried to extract from them the certainty of whether or not they would cross the Namibian border. And the Cuban leader responded: “We can neither say that we will nor that we will not.”
They will never know our silent decision.
They will never know the sacrifices we are willing to make.
That internationalism, the legacy of Fidel and Raúl, did not expand our geographical borders, nor did it carry away gold and silver; it only brought to our soil the dead we surrendered. But it forever expanded our political borders, borders of solidarity and unparalleled respect.
And that is the fact that the empire, in its desperation, fails to grasp: that an invasion of Cuba will not be against Cuba alone. It will be against all the peoples of the world who are beginning to sign and enlist, as they did at the Bay of Pigs to defend Cuba against aggression.
The resistance will not have a single trench: it will multiply in every corner of Our America and beyond.
Cuba knows the script because it has suffered it for more than sixty years. It knows that behind every accusation there is a plan of domination, behind every fabricated “threat” there is a fleet ready to set sail, and behind every “failed nation” there is the greed of those who dream of dividing its spoils.
But this people is not new to resistance. They come from afar and remember where their first mission began.
When American rockets rained down on the home of humble farmer Mario Sariol in the Sierra Maestra mountains, Fidel uttered words that resonate with the same force today: “Seeing the rockets they fired at Mario’s house, I swore to myself that the Americans will pay dearly for what they are doing. When this war is over, a much longer and greater war will begin for me: the war I will wage against them. I realize that this will be my true destiny.”
That certainty was not an emergency slogan; it was the founding compass of the Revolution. And that compass is what continues to guide us. They want our collapse. They want our humiliation. They have the wrong people. They have the wrong history.
They will only learn, when they attempt the final blow, that Cuba remains standing, clinging to its first mission, which is also its last trench: to fight against imperialism.
¡Hasta la victoria siempre! / Ever onward toward victory!
Havana, May 18, 2026
