The new escalation of US aggression against Cuba is a new act of audacity by the Trump regime

2 February 2026, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia

The new escalation of US aggression against Cuba represents a new episode in the Trump regime’s audacity. AKEL denounces the new illegal measures taken by the US against Cuba and expresses its unconditional solidarity with the people and leadership of Cuba.

Trump’s decree imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba aims to provoke energy suffocation to the Cuban people and adds to the economic, trade, and financial blockade that the US has imposed on Cuba for 65 years. It should be pointed out that last October, the UN General Assembly, for the 33rd consecutive year and by an overwhelming majority of the world’s states, called on the US to end the blockade of Cuba.

The intensification of the interventions in Latin America, the attacks against Greenland, the economic wars against European economies, the support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the preparations for an invasion of Iran, and the undermining of the UN demonstrate that the US is ruthlessly turning against everyone in order to defend its hegemony in the Western hemisphere and across the entire planet. 

Now more than ever, we need to defend international law, the UN Charter, and peace, which are not mere wishful thinking but are prerequisites for humanity’s survival in the face of the nightmarish dangers it currently faces.