ALBA-TCP and Cuba condemn new Trump aggression against the socialist nation

The Trump administration is seeking to further intensify the already crippling, illegal economic blockade against Cuba. This blockade has been condemned by the United Nations General Assembly for 32 years in a row and clearly violates international law. The last vote demanding an end to the blockade was overwhelming: 187 countries voted in favour of the resolution on the "Necessity of Ending Embargo Imposed by United States of America against Cuba" with only Israel and the United States voting against.

Even staunch imperialist allies of the US like Canada, the UK, Germany, etc. voted for the embargo's end.

Both the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) and the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs have issued statements condemning these actions.

Cuba rejects the US Presidential Memorandum tightening the economic blockade

Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (translated from the Spanish)

The anti-Cuban document released by the U.S. government on June 30, 2025, consists of a reissue and amendment of National Security Presidential Memorandum No. 5, which the U.S. government itself issued on June 16, 2017, at the start of Donald Trump's first term.

Cuba categorically denounces and rejects both versions of the notorious document.

As a clear demonstration of that country's aggressive conduct and hegemonic intentions, both the original text and its current reissue propose a series of measures designed to intensify the economic blockade and increase the suffering of the Cuban people. This is part of a failed effort to seize control of the country and dictate its future, in line with the Helms-Burton Act of 1996.

As early as 2017, under the Memorandum issued at the time, the U.S. government began implementing measures to further strengthen the economic blockade, taking it to a qualitatively more damaging level. These measures have been maintained for eight years, including the period of the Biden administration, and largely explain the current shortcomings and significant challenges facing the Cuban economy in its recovery, growth, and development.

The 2017 Memorandum served as the political platform advocating for, among other actions, a near-total prohibition on U.S. travel to Cuba. It resulted in the targeting of fuel supplies, the hindrance of remittances, and actions against third-country governments that utilized Cuban medical services for their populations.

It also has increased pressure on commercial and financial entities around the world to prevent sever their ties with Cuba, has prompted lawsuits in U.S. courts against investors in our country, and has included the slanderous inclusion of the island on the list of states supposedly sponsoring terrorism, with its dire consequences for the national economy.

This hostile policy violates international law and numerous UN resolutions. It seeks to justify the use of economic coercion as a weapon of aggression against a sovereign country, with the aim of breaking the political will of the entire nation and subjecting it to the hegemonic dictatorship of the United States. It is not by chance that, since 1992, the UN General Assembly has almost unanimously called for an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade.

Both the original and the revised Presidential Memorandum cite terms like democracy, human rights, and religious freedom to justify their actions. These concepts clash with the historically abusive and transgressive behavior of the U.S. government. The memorandum also explicitly mentions the aim to dismantle socialism and transition the Cuban economy to capitalism.

The rulers and politicians of the United States have the audacity to declare that they act in this way for the good of the Cuban people.

The challenges Cuba faces are significant and daunting, especially given the U.S. effort to destroy the national project that we Cubans have built in the full exercise of our sovereign rights, including the right to self-determination.

The US government does not care if Cuba is a peaceful, stable, supportive country with friendly relations with practically the entire world. The policy that the US implements responds to the narrow interests of an anti-Cuban and corrupt clique that has made aggression against a neighboring country a way of life and a very profitable business.

Havana, July 1, 2025. (Cubaminrex)

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ALBA condemns new criminal measures adopted by the US government against the Cuban people

The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) strongly condemn the intensification of the aggression and economic blockade by the U.S. government against the sister Republic of Cuba.

This new aggression aims to severely damage all sectors of Cuban society, such as tourism, health, migratory processes, cultural, academic and scientific exchange, access to technology and openly declares the intensification of the blockade and the imposition of a regime change, among others, through the reactivation and update of the 2017 Donald Trump’s Presidential Memorandum No. 5.

The real goal of the U.S. government is to seize Cuba and control its destiny. The way to achieve this is to provoke the most severe shortages and the maximum suffering of the Cuban population for destabilization purposes.

The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance condemn in the strongest terms this criminal attack, reaffirm their unwavering position in solidarity with the Cuban people and government in their legitimate defense of their independence, freedom and self-determination, and ratify the commitment to the maintenance of international peace and security, the promotion of friendly relations among nations, the prohibition of the use or threat of use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of States, and non-interference in their internal affairs.

Caracas, July 01, 2025