April 19, 2026

Hundreds of supporters of the Cuban Revolution arrived in Cuba in March, as part of the Nuestra America Convoy, whose goal was to show solidarity with Cuba’s right to self-determination amidst a complete oil blockade and 67-year general blockade sponsored by the US government, operating with US taxpayers’ money.

Because Cuba refuses to bow to the Monroe Doctrine, aka the US government’s imperial project, US sanctions have sentenced the island to a slow genocide, which is playing out in real time currently with Cubans encountering on a daily basis: food shortages, blackouts that last for days and that have led to patients dependent on ventilators dying in hospitals, epidemics of diseases spread by mosquitos and more.

Longtime organizer Brenda Lopez of US Hands Off Cuba Committee recently returned, and is reporting back on how critical it is for people in the US to fight to end the blockades against Cuba, since our taxes are fueling this genocide.