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At night, the U.S. Naval Base in Guant\u00e1namo, Cuba appears like a tangled string of Christmas lights along the coastline, casting colored silhouettes across the waves that lap ashore. Sailors and Marines pack the local sports bar blaring pop music. Others frequent the bowling alley or play video games under intense strobe lights. Yet in contrast to the brightly illuminated base, nighttime blots out the nearby town of Caimanera, as a result of the energy blockade on Cuba that President Donald Trump tightened this January. <\/p>\n

Trump claims that the embargo is necessary to promote a democratic transition in Cuba. Similarly, U.S.-backed opposition leaders in Miami such as Rosa Mar\u00eda Pay\u00e1 argue that \u201cthe Cuban people [are] grateful\u201d for the sanctions, which will help \u201cmake Cuba great again.\u201d <\/p>\n

But the truth is far more bitter. Trump\u2019s sanctions are accelerating a social crisis that has immobilized Cuban industry, gutted public services, and forced over 10 percent of the population to leave the island in recent years. Hospitals lack electricity, and grocery store shelves are empty amid rolling blackouts. Ratcheting up pressure, U.S. authorities issued a new raft of sanctions against senior Cuban officials this May, while conducting military reconnaissance flights off the coastline. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s economic powerplay and preparations for a potential invasion are only the latest moves in an ongoing saga of aggression toward Cuba. Rather than prioritizing democracy, Washington has long deployed economic pressure to challenge the island\u2019s fiercely independent social and foreign policies \u2014 above all, its commitment to wealth redistribution, solidarity with liberation struggles, and opposition to U.S. imperial hubris. <\/p>\n

Forming the Noose<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Washington\u2019s professed support for democracy in Cuba rings hollow when placed against the historical backdrop. In the 1950s, U.S. officials assisted the island\u2019s dictator Fulgencio Batista, as he attempted to extinguish a popular revolution spearheaded by Fidel Castro. His regime tortured over 700 dissidents to death, dangling mutilated bodies from telegraph poles and tossing them into gutters. While training Batista\u2019s forces, the CIA confided that they were \u201ctoo enthusiastic\u201d about torture. Nonetheless, Washington organized \u201cto prevent a Castro victory,\u201d fearing that his leftist agenda would undermine its vice-like grip over Cuban politics and commerce.<\/p>\n

After taking power in January 1959, revolutionary leaders nationalized strategic industries, outlawed formal racial segregation, and pursued a breathtaking array of anti-poverty reforms. In response, the State Department promoted \u201ceconomic warfare\u201d by plotting to reduce access to oil and the U.S. sugar market. Officials emphasized that they should \u201cdisguise these actions\u201d as peaceful. But their objective was clear: \u201cto bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of [the Castro] government.\u201d <\/p>\n

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy escalated pressure by bankrolling terrorist operations and a failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs. He also armed counterrevolutionaries that targeted the revolution\u2019s literacy campaign, butchering teachers for teaching peasants to read. <\/p>\n

To defend Cuba, Castro stationed Soviet missiles on the island. At the brink of nuclear war, Kennedy vehemently opposed a \u201cno-invasion guarantee\u201d in negotiations with Soviet leaders, while refusing to even talk to Cuban officials. Privately, he was blunt: \u201cour objective is to preserve our right to invade\u201d in an emergency. After the Soviets withdrew the missiles, U.S. officials insisted that their \u201cultimate objective\u201d remained \u201cthe overthrow of\u2026 Castro,\u201d sponsoring attacks against industrial sites and \u201ctighten[ing] the noose around the Cuban economy.\u201d <\/p>\n

Yet their most cynical ploy targeted Cuba\u2019s youth. As relations deteriorated, the U.S. government organized Operation Peter Pan, which sowed chaos and fractured families by convincing Cubans to ship their children to the United States. To spark a mass exodus, the CIA published false propaganda announcing that authorities planned to abolish parental authority. Radio advertisements warned that socialists would seize and \u201cindoctrinate\u201d every minor. \u201cDon\u2019t let your child be taken!\u201d broadcasts warned.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the State Department colluded with Father Bryan Walsh and the Catholic Welfare Bureau in Miami, which oversaw the transfer of over 14,000 Cuban children to the United States. Many never reunited with their families. Walsh packed Cuban children into orphanages, foster homes, and makeshift facilities. One Peter Pan survivor, Alex L\u00f3pez, recalled living for one year in a snake-infested camp in the Everglades. Residents slept in canvas tents and washed in the swamp. But the worst part was the priests. L\u00f3pez described the sadistic cruelty of one of the camp rectors and \u201cbeing raped by that horrible man.\u201d Many others also experienced sexual abuse, violence, and neglect. Walsh himself forced campers to strip before beating them with paddles. In 2006, one survivor claimed that the priest raped him. <\/p>\n

Today, Cuban American leaders cite Operation Peter Pan as an example of principled resistance against communist tyranny. In reality, the operation was a cruel microcosm of U.S. policy toward Cuba, revealing both the cynicism of the counterrevolution and rapacity of Washington. Although under siege, the island became the only Latin American country without malnutrition or illiteracy, prompting UNICEF to call it a \u201cparadise for children\u201d in the region in 2010. Yet it was precisely these reforms that infuriated the U.S. and Cuban elite, turning Cuba into an intolerable symbol of dignity and defiance. <\/p>\n

The Reverse Passage<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The United States has not only targeted Cuba because of its socialist system but also due to the country\u2019s commitment to radical solidarity. Throughout the Cold War, Cuban leaders repeatedly challenged U.S. aggression abroad and efforts to assert Western supremacy in the Global South. <\/p>\n

In particular, Cuba offered a model for decolonization, while actively supporting national liberation movements. In 1959, the Cuban-Argentine revolutionary Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara led a solidarity trip to Gaza. Afterward, Cuba became a leading champion of Palestinian rights, offering substantial economic and military aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization. It also was a major ally to Vietnamese nationalists during the Vietnam War, sending equipment to build the Ho Chi Minh Trail. And Cuba for political refugees as U.S.-backed dictatorships ravaged Latin America through the 1980s. <\/p>\n

Most notably, half a million Cubans fought for decolonization in Africa. Their sacrifices helped Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, and other countries gain independence. Recognizing their contribution, the Algerian leader and herald of Pan-Africanism, Ahmed Ben Bella, declared that without the Cuban Revolution, \u201cno place for justice, for dignity [would exist] in this world.\u201d <\/p>\n

Above all, Cuban support for Angola proved decisive. In 1975, U.S. officials encouraged apartheid South Africa to topple President Agostinho Neto and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which had recently wrested independence from Portugal. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hoped that ousting Neto\u2019s leftist government would enhance U.S. prestige. But as South African armor approached Luanda, Castro initiated Operation Carlota \u2014 airlifting thousands of Cuban troops to repel the invasion. <\/p>\n

The historian Piero Gleijeses concludes that the operation embodied a genuine commitment to racial justice. It entailed a sort of reverse passage, as the Cuban descendants of African slaves crossed the Atlantic to vanquish white supremacy and the last vestiges of colonialism. Within months, Black Cuban and Angolan troops repelled the offensive. A South African military analyst lamented that \u201cover 300 years of colonialism\u201d was disappearing. \u201cWhite elitism has suffered an irreversible blow.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cuban solidarity stabilized Angola yet infuriated President Ronald Reagan, who aimed to crush the MPLA and reinforce Pretoria. In Saving Apartheid<\/em>, Augusta Dell\u2019Omo demonstrates that Reagan mobilized to insulate South Africa from international pressure, prompting Bishop Desmond Tutu to call the U.S. president\u2019s policy \u201cimmoral, evil and totally un-Christian.\u201d U.S. officials regarded Cuban forces in Angola with exasperation. Referencing Cuba, Secretary of State Alexander Haig asked Reagan for permission to \u201cturn that island into a fucking parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1987, the United States again conspired with South Africa, as apartheid forces streamed across the border and cornered Angolan units at the town of Cuito Cuanavale. Cuba responded with a massive troop surge. \u201c[W]e placed ourselves in the lion\u2019s jaws,\u201d Castro recalled, claiming that his soldiers maneuvered \u201clike a boxer who with his left hand blocks the blow and with his right \u2013 strikes.\u201d Against the odds, Cuban reinforcements secured a smashing victory. The counteroffensive not only preserved Angola\u2019s sovereignty, but forced South Africa to grant Namibia independence and fatally weakened the apartheid regime. Nelson Mandela concluded that Cuba\u2019s victory was \u201cthe turning point for the liberation of our continent, and of my people, from the scourge of apartheid.\u201d <\/p>\n

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In short, the island\u2019s pugnacious opposition to imperialism made it a permanent target of U.S. aggression. Historically, Cuba has spent on foreign aid than virtually any other country. And unlike the United States, it is famous for fighting colonialism and directing medical missions, treating millions of poor patients across the world. Demonstrating their anticolonial convictions, 32 Cuban security personnel died defending Venezuelan territory from Trump\u2019s illegal invasion this January. For these reasons, Washington has regarded Cuba as a threat to U.S. imperial leadership and the geographical hierarchies \u2014 in Venezuela, Palestine, Africa, and elsewhere \u2014 that it aims to preserve. <\/p>\n

Unrestrained Extremism<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After the Soviet Union dissolved, Cuba lost an essential lifeline, and its economy slid into a prolonged crisis. Smelling blood, Cuban American conservatives lobbied to tighten the blockade in order to instigate regime change. Miami remained the strategic base of the counterrevolution, as right-wing residents flexed their political connections to block the normalization of relations, strengthen the embargo, and trigger an uprising. <\/p>\n

Despite their pro-democracy rhetoric, conservative Cuban American activists had an embarrassing record. For decades, they had used Florida as a launching pad for violent operations against Cuba, while viciously attacking moderate voices \u2014 at one point, perpetrating 45 percent of all terrorist bombings in the world. Far-right community leaders such as Jorge Mas Canosa, Luis Posada Carriles, and Orlando Bosch strafed beaches with machine guns, planted explosives, and even bombed a Cuban airplane killing 73 civilians. \u201cAll of Castro\u2019s planes are warplanes,\u201d Bosch explained in a chilling deadpan. <\/p>\n

Under Mas Canosa\u2019s guidance, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) became the main powerbroker shaping policy. Although posing as an independent grassroots actor, the foundation maintained deep ties to the U.S. government. CANF co-founder Raul Masvidal explained that \u201cthe National Security Council wanted to start an organization that would help popularize\u201d its campaign of economic pressure and diplomatic isolation against Cuba. <\/p>\n

And the foundation was its answer. Over the 1990s and 2000s, CANF laundered federal funds for activists bombing the island and the electoral campaigns of hardline politicians. The godfather of the Cuban American exile community, CANF president Mas Canosa aimed to turn Cuba into an anarcho-capitalist paradise, promoting \u201ca very aggressive privatization campaign\u201d that \u201chas to be radical and\u2026 immediate. Privatize everything.\u201d In 1992, he revamped sanctions with the Cuban Democracy Act, which Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-New Jersey), of foundation funds, designed to \u201cwreak havoc on that island.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, CANF financed Brothers to the Rescue, a self-identified humanitarian group of airplane pilots helping Cuban rafters reach the U.S. shoreline. Yet Fernando Morais\u2019s book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War<\/em> demonstrates that the Brothers were intensely political. Flying U.S. government aircraft, they frequently penetrated Cuban airspace to jam transmissions at Havana\u2019s international airport, putting thousands of lives in danger. Director Jos\u00e9 Basulto boasted that pilots dumped a \u201ctremendous amount\u201d of propaganda exhorting citizens to \u201coverthrow\u201d the socialist state. The Brothers even passed reconnaissance information from flights to Cuban Americans planting bombs on beaches. <\/p>\n

In 1996, Cuba shot down two of their aircraft, after persistently against future incursions. Exploiting the incident, CANF pressed President Bill Clinton to sign the Helms-Burton Act, which drastically tightened the blockade. Facing an election year, Clinton signed the bill to win Cuban American votes, while privately recognizing that it violated international law. Beside themselves with victory, CANF then ramped up bombing attacks in Havana to undermine the tourist industry. Posada, who directed the strikes, admitted that Mas Canosa \u201ccontrolled everything,\u201d slipping him cash \u201c[w]henver I needed money.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite relentless harassment, Cubans successfully rebuilt their economy. Between 1999 and 2014, the election of left-leaning \u201cPink Tide\u201d governments in Latin America allowed Cuba to escape its isolation, while securing new allies and trade partners. In 2015, President Barack Obama opened talks with Havana, taking the first step toward the normalization of relations. The diplomatic thaw eased restrictions on travel and remittances, relaxed controls on investment, and promoted bilateral cooperation in medical research and other areas. <\/p>\n

More than anything, it signaled the failure of U.S. aggression. Since the 1990s, the Cuban American right had led a campaign to strangle the island, attempting everything from economic subterfuge to terrorism. Instead, its efforts revealed the revolution\u2019s resilience, as well as the unrestrained extremism of its leading adversaries. <\/p>\n

The Price of Dignity <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The thaw did not last long. In 2017, the State Department claimed that Cuba launched \u201cacoustic attacks\u201d against its Havana embassy, harassing U.S. diplomats with a weapon that emitted a high-pitched noise powerful enough to inflict brain injuries. FBI investigators and medical specialists found no evidence that Cuba deployed such technology, or that the sci-fi device even existed. The most likely culprit for the sound was crickets chirping. <\/p>\n

Yet Trump exploited the scandal to , which President Joe Biden later maintained, instigating a humanitarian crisis. In 2018, Cuba\u2019s infant mortality rate was lower than the rate in the United States. Since then, it has increased 148 percent, as hospitals face acute shortages of medicine and equipment. The Center for Economic and Policy Research bluntly concluded this May that the blockade \u201chas killed a lot of babies.\u201d <\/p>\n

While tightening sanctions, the State Department has boosted funding for regime change programs. Leaked documents reveal that officials have plotted in recent decades to build a militant opposition movement. They \u201crapidly, discreetly, and opportunistically\u201d to crises, \u201chastening a peaceful transition to a\u2026 market-oriented society.\u201d The department has funneled illegal funding to government critics, sponsored dissident rappers, and attempted to create a social media platform to spark an uprising. To block access to foreign currency, it is even bullying poor countries into expelling Cuban doctors, depriving some communities of healthcare altogether. <\/p>\n

A darling of the Cuban American right, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading the latest drive to destabilize the island. Rubio grew up amid the rabid politics and violence of counterrevolutionary Miami. In his memoir, he fondly recalls buying baseball tickets with cocaine money from his brother-in-law, who smuggled drugs with a Bay of Pigs veteran. Since January, he has overseen the energy embargo that frequently plunges the island into darkness. <\/p>\n

Claiming Rubio as \u201cone of our own,\u201d CANF debuted a \u201croadmap\u201d for the island this May, promoting the privatization of healthcare and education, dismantling of welfare programs, and end to \u201crestrictions on profit repatriation.\u201d Authors portray the United States as \u201cthe salvation of Cuba,\u201d while asking Cubans to accept Cuban American leadership since, they say, \u201cWe know how a capitalist system works.\u201d As the humanitarian disaster worsens, CANF continues to champion hardline tactics, including the indictment against Ra\u00fal Castro announced by the U.S. on Tuesday for his role in the 1996 defensive operation against Brothers to the Rescue. Appealing to Cuban American extremists, Trump now speculates about \u201ctaking Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Cubans continue to challenge oppression worldwide. The Palestinian doctor Murid Abukhater, who recently studied medicine in Cuba, emphasizes that they educate Palestinians for free to \u201csave the lives of our people\u201d from genocide. This solidarity is breathtakingly poignant since the island\u2019s population has itself lived \u201cunder a long siege, just like us in Gaza,\u201d Abukhater explained. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, the blockade isolates Cuba precisely because its revolutionary idealism mocks U.S. imperial ambitions. The sanctions are the culmination of seven decades of coercion and obscene hypocrisy. An empire that spreads war is strangling a country that exports doctors. Indeed, a rich government that claims vaccines are dangerous is persecuting a poor society that not only invents vaccines, but shares them with the world. And while celebrating genocide and deportations, U.S. leaders throttle a nation for its defiant tradition of solidarity: Its refusal to tolerate the suffering of the exploited. Decades after the Cold War, Cuba remains an obsessive target of a U.S.-backed counterrevolution, as well as the storm-lashed epicenter of the struggle against U.S. imperialism. <\/p>\n

The author would like to thank Sarah Priscilla Lee of the Learning Sciences program at Northwestern University for reviewing this article. <\/em><\/p>\n

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