María Teresa Felipe Sosa / Diario Red
Cuba does not seek confrontation. It demands respect. And history, although some prefer to ignore it, has been clear: independence is not negotiated under threat.
This January 11, Emperor Donald Trump, President of the United States of America and self-proclaimed eternal custodian of the planet, decided to remind the world that the Cold War did not end; it simply changed social media platforms. From Twitter, Trump launched a belligerent message directed at Cuba, one more in an extensive collection of warnings that never age well. In it, he threatened to cut off any flow of oil or resources to the island from Venezuela and, with the ease of habit, assumed the role of regional military guarantor, as if the Caribbean were a private geographic space under his watchful eye.
Nothing new under the imperial sun. These declarations are part of a coherent political logic—in its brutality—driven by ultra-right-wing sectors of the US establishment, with figures like Stephen Miller, determined to transform economic coercion, diplomatic intimidation, and military threats into respectable forms of foreign policy. In this context, anti-Cuban operatives celebrated the threat with unbridled enthusiasm and, in a rare gesture of sincerity, admitted that the economic war seeks to generate severe hardship so that the exhausted Cuban people will blame their own government. Reverse humanitarianism, one might call it.
The Cuban President’s Response
Havana, far from panicking over the announcement in a tweet, responded with the calm of someone who has seen this movie one too many times. President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez responded directly on social media, dismantling the aggressor’s heroic narrative and reminding everyone of a detail that Washington often overlooks: Cuba does not accept ultimatums.
The president explained that the shortages the country faces do not arise spontaneously from socialism, but rather from an economic blockade maintained for more than six decades by the very country that now offers itself as a solution to the disaster it is causing. A curious case of an arsonist offering help as a firefighter.
“Cuba will not surrender, Cuba will not renounce its independence,” Díaz-Canel affirmed on the social network. The message culminated with a phrase that should be included in any manual of contemporary international relations: “No one dictates what we do. Cuba does not attack; it has been attacked by the U.S. for 66 years, and it does not threaten; it prepares, ready to defend the homeland to the last drop of blood.”
The heart of the matter: Coercion with a diplomatic smile
It is worth emphasizing that US policy toward Cuba is not motivated by any humanitarian concern. It never has been. Not when it invaded, not when it financed terrorism, not now that it has economically strangled Cuba while speaking of democracy. It is, with admirable consistency, a strategy of coercion designed to impede the country’s economic development and provoke the social collapse necessary to justify change.
“Cuba will not surrender, Cuba will not renounce its independence,” Díaz-Canel stated.
If the United States were truly curious to verify the viability of the Cuban economy, it would lift the embargo. But such an experiment is unacceptable because it could demonstrate that the problem was never Cuba, but rather the blockade. And that would be inconvenient for the “failed state” narrative, a central piece of the imperial theater.
Cuba: That uncomfortable habit of not disappearing
History, stubborn as ever, teaches us that people do not surrender simply because someone announces it on social media. Cuba does not underestimate the cost of confrontation, but it is perfectly aware of the indecent price of submission.
For more than six decades, it has faced invasions, sabotage, terrorism, and an economic war designed to be endless. And yet, it endures. Confusing destructive power with hegemony is the favorite mistake of empires, because governing with bombs is not governing consciences.
They can imagine invasions against the island, repeat scripts from Iraq or Libya, reduce cities to rubble, and proclaim victory from the heights of armed arrogance. They can do it all. They have done it before. But they always forget the same thing: hegemony cannot be imposed when moral legitimacy is lost. And there, precisely there, is where the Empire fails.
If the United States were truly curious to verify the viability of the Cuban economy, it would lift the embargo.
The current threats don’t usher in anything new; they merely confirm a dangerous insistence: the attempt to replace international law with the law of the strongest. Faced with this, Cuba responds with an uncomfortable and persistent idea: this people will not surrender. Not out of romanticism, not out of recklessness, but out of memory.
Cuba does not seek confrontation. It demands respect. And history, though some prefer to ignore it, has been clear: independence is not negotiated under threat.
Once again, and against all imperial predictions… Cuba will prevai
[ SOURCE: cubainformacion.tv / DIARO RED ]
