From the International Committee for Peace, Justice, and Dignity for the Peoples, we call upon men and women of goodwill to join the actions that will take place around the world from April 19th onward, in the Centennial Year of Fidel Castro and the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) invasion, the first defeat of imperialism in Latin America.

The damage caused by the 64-year US blockade of Cuba is internationally known. This blockade has been condemned by the vast majority of countries, with the exception of Israel, on 33 occasions in the UN General Assembly.

It has intensified with 243 sanctions during Trump’s first presidency, the inclusion of Cuba on the spurious list of supposed state sponsors of terrorism, and the persecution of International Medical Cooperation Agreements.

Not content with the harm inflicted on the entire population, the current administration, on January 29th, declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat,” imposing an energy blockade under the threat of tariffs on any country in the world that supplies oil to Cuba.

Displaying his lies and cynicism, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that the suffering of the population is due to the Cuban government’s policies, denying the existence of the blockade, the main impediment to the country’s development.

Trump acknowledged: “We have exerted all possible pressure on Cuba.” With threatening boasting, he stated: “The only option left is to go in and destroy it.” “I will have the honor of taking Cuba.”

The possibility of military aggression has been present for 67 years. Today, it becomes a real threat given the belligerent and criminal nature of an ultraconservative administration that attempts to cover up the internal disaster and social problems of its country, that disregards International Law and the sovereignty of nations, seeks to seize the entire region, and bombs in the midst of negotiations and agreements if the attacked country does not respond with surrender and submission to its dark interests.

Cuba is suffering the criminal policies of the United States. 1,400 children with cancer have their treatments jeopardized by a lack of supplies, and 96,000 patients are on waiting lists for surgeries that cannot be performed due to a lack of supplies; 11,000 of them are children. Also at risk are babies born with low birth weight or who must be treated in incubators, and pregnant women who require special studies.

Cuba suffers extremely long blackouts, shortages of food and medicine, and a lack of public transportation. Despite this enormous suffering, it does not stop working, studying, creating, and fighting for life for a single day.

Cuba is preparing to defend its entire people, far removed from any desire for war. It is preparing to defend itself against military aggression with resolve, despite the immense difference between the most powerful country in the world and the Island of Solidarity. Cuba and its people are preparing to defend the Revolution, sovereignty, and independence in order to prevent a major confrontation.

It faces another war, the media war, which is also multidimensional, with headlines that become hashtags on social media that distort, manipulate, and poison the narrative to divide and sow hatred.

Cuba wants to live in peace. If it has achieved a cultural heritage admired worldwide, the development of biotechnology, the creation of its own vaccines that saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic, highly effective medicines that can save and improve the quality of life of millions around the world, and the free training of thousands of doctors from countries in the Global South; if it has been able to achieve all this amidst the blockade and so many aggressions, we must ask ourselves what Cuba would be like without this genocidal blockade.

Cuba is not and never will be a threat to anyone. What Trump and Rubio fear, what US administrations have always feared, is its example, its Martí-inspired and Fidel-inspired ethics, its humanism and its internationalism. They will never be able to extinguish the light emanating from the Cuban Revolution.

Let us take to the streets to defend Hope. Let us ask friendly media outlets to publish our petitions, appeals, and statements. Let us break the invasion of the media scoundrels. Let us follow the example of La Jornada so that the same solidarity action is replicated in the free and progressive press.

Let us ask our Foreign Ministries and Governments to move from declarations to action: break the energy blockade like Russia, and receive the solidarity of Mexico and China.

Let us remind the governments of Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa of all that Cuba has given to their people. It is time to give back a little to Cuba.

Let us remind the United States that they were defeated at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) in 72 hours.

They can attack and devastate, but what they don’t know is when they will leave.

From the cities and the mountains, from the fields and even from under the rocks, Cuba will defend itself with machetes if necessary, because it will never again be a Yankee colony.

International Mobilization for Cuba’s Right to Life and Peace.

International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity for the Peoples.

April 9, 2026