Stop Trump’s Oil Blockade of Cuba

Rally on Saturday, February 14
Outside Park Street Station, Boston
12 Noon to 1:15pm

This rally takes place during the worst crisis Cuba has ever faced as Trump is making sure no oil can reach Cuba. On January 29 he signed an executive order declaring a national emergency because of the alleged imminent threat that Cuba poses to our national security!! (The president seems to get a kick out of making up the most outrageous stories possible). In response to this “threat” he is placing significant tariffs on all goods from any country who dares to sell Cuba oil.

Once implemented this oil blockade means Cuba would be out of fuel by the end of this month. We will also raise our voices against even more draconian attacks on Cuba that could be coming soon.

Now that Venezuelan oil is no longer available to Cuba, we must support the efforts of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to find a way to sell some of its oil to the island nation. Cuba. As she says, “The problem we have now is that the United States said it will impose tariffs on any country that sells to Cuba”

Given the energy shortages that already exist in Cuba and the hardship primarily caused by 6 decades of embargo, such an oil blockade guarantees starvation and widespread loss of life in Cuba. Electricity, hospitals, agricultural machinery and transportation will no longer be able to function. The president’s strategy is clear: to provoke a level of misery so profound that it leads to civil unrest and the toppling of the Cuban Government.

But this blockade of Cuban oil does not take place in a vacuum. By now it is clear that president Trump will do whatever he wants to get his way. He will destroy people, universities, cultural institutions and countries to further his ambitions for power and personal wealth. He wages war abroad and war against our rights at home with the same playbook of division, extortion, deprivation, and fear. The people of Minneapolis and the people of Cuba may have more in common than they know – united as they are by a common enemy and a common vision of human solidarity.

Cuba may be Trump’s enemy. But it is not ours. Join us at noon on Valentines Day outside Park Street Station in downtown Boston to let the world know this basic reality.

Sponsored by the statewide “No War on Venezuela Network” and Massachusetts Peace Action

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