Professor of Latin American Political Economy, University of Glasgow. Author: We Are Cuba! How a revolutionary people survived in post-Soviet world

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🎬 Nina and I spoke to anti-imperialist journalist & filmmaker @AbbyMartin for 📷@cubanalysis podcast about the #Trump's claim that #Cuba is a threat to #US national security and foreign policy, about new documentary Cuba After Castro & much more. Watch 📷tinyurl.com/m7ave7vf
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La lucrativa 💵industria de la mentira sobre Cuba 🇨🇺 .
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🎬 I spoke to anti-imperialist journalist & filmmaker @AbbyMartin for 🇨🇺@cubanalysis podcast about the #US war on #Cuba, her experiences in Cuba, & interview with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel for the new documentary Cuba After Castro. Watch 🎥 here: tinyurl.com/m7ave7vf
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Interview with anti-imperialist journalist and filmmaker, Abby Martin In this episode of the Cuba Analysis Podcast youtu.be/owbvdbu8CuY?si=Wn5a… via @HelenYaffe
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🤔 Hasta ahora, no he visto a ningún periodista/analista de esos medios tradicionales hablar de lo absurdo que resulta que Pete Hegseth haya ido a hablar de libertad para CUBA desde la Base Naval de Guantánamo, un territorio ocupado hartamente conocido por ser escenario de las peores torturas y violaciones de DDHH que haya visto el mundo.
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Marco Rubio announced new sanctions against Cuba's state-owned oil, in order to intensify the US-imposed energy crisis. But is Cuba as "repressive" as Marco Rubio and Trump claim? Contrary to what they say, Cuba does have regular elections — with high voter turnout. WATCH: President Miguel Díaz-Canel explains the country's democracy, from our new film, "Cuba After Castro." Full film here: patreon.com/BreakThroughNews…
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Rubio acaba de sancionar a la empresa cubana que se encargaba de comercializar petróleo y gas a la población, y ahora estudia-explota-refina crudo de yacimientos cubanos con premura ante la crisis humanitaria. Pero en una semana este criminal te dirá que no hay bloqueo energético
Today, I am sanctioning Cuba’s state-owned energy company, Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), under President Trump’s EO 14404. Cuba’s Communist elites have weaponized energy as a tool of social control and kleptocratic profit. For decades, the regime has stolen and hoarded available fuel — using it for the Castros’ private jet, the security services forces used to repress the Cuban people, to keep empty tourist hotels lit up, and to bus people in for fake protests and political stunts — all while the Cuban people have suffered blackouts and waited weeks to fill their cars. President Trump wants a new future for the Cuban people with greater economic and political freedom and opportunity. Until then, we will continue to target the Communist regime’s ability to leverage its energy trade to further its corrupt agenda and violently repress the Cuban people.
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Quienes sostienen en el gobierno de #EEUU que el estado precario del sistema electroenergético cubano es culpa de nuestro Gobierno, mienten para ocultar el crimen que cometen contra el pueblo de #Cuba. Vayamos a los hechos: Los memorandos presidenciales NSPM-5 de 2017 y 2026 establecen el estrangulamiento y la persecución financiera y comercial como centro de la asfixia contra Cuba. La guerra económica se reforzó con la reinclusión de la Isla en la unilateral lista de supuestos Estados patrocinadores del terrorismo en enero de 2021 y posteriormente en enero de 2025. Nos han convertido en un país de “riesgo” para cualquier transacción, negocio e inversión extranjera. En 2023, una empresa europea canceló la venta de repuestos para turbinas de generación, por miedo a sanciones de EEUU, a pesar de que Cuba tenía el financiamiento. En 2025, una empresa de un país amigo negó la asistencia técnica para poner en funcionamiento una pieza imprescindible de la termoeléctrica de Cienfuegos, porque contenía más de un 10% de componentes de origen estadounidense. Técnicos de empresas contratadas para dar asistencia han decidido no viajar a Cuba, incluso estando ya en el aeropuerto de origen, debido a las amenazas y presiones. La Orden Ejecutiva 14380 del presidente de EEUU del 29 de enero de 2026 autorizó la imposición de aranceles punitivos contra las importaciones procedentes de países que, directa o indirectamente, suministren petróleo a Cuba. Antes del cerco energético, buques petroleros que transportaban combustible a Cuba eran amenazados con multas, embargo de activos, la exclusión del sistema financiero global, e incluso con la interceptación en alta mar y la confiscación de su carga. A todo ello, se suma que 40 bancos extranjeros se han negado a operar con Cuba, bloqueando 140 transferencias bancarias, muchas de ellas relacionadas con pagos para la compra de tecnología solar o eólica. Dato mata relato. El sistema eléctrico cubano no es víctima de la desidia. Es víctima de una guerra atroz. Quien la ejecuta de forma deliberada, sabe perfectamente el daño que hace a la población y se esconde tras la fachada de la mentira y la propaganda.
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Pete Hegseth, el tío llegó a la Base Naval de Guantánamo como si estuviera aterrizando de vacaciones en una playa del Caribe… pero lo hizo a un territorio ilegalmente ocupado por Estados Unidos, donde se tortura a migrantes y a personas que nunca han sido juzgadas, a quienes ellos etiquetan como terroristas. ¡Estados Unidos es una vergüenza mundial!
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After years of calling Cuba a DICTATORSHIP, Rubio admits in the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, 4 June, that political power in #Cuba depends on consensus decision making. Cuba's system of democracy and representation is explained in my chapter: researchgate.net/publication…
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🗣 "Se están yendo en contra de su voluntad [...] la Unión Europea y España tienen que proteger a su empresariado". El presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel señaló a las recientes sanciones de EEUU como las culpables de provocar que empresas españolas y de la Unión Europea hayan comenzado a abandonar Cuba. En una entrevista con @eldiarioes, aseguró que el bloqueo estadounidense también "está afectando a ciudadanos españoles y europeos", además de perjudicar a empresarios e instituciones bancarias de la unión. En las pasadas semanas, varias de las principales cadenas hoteleras extranjeras que operan en Cuba —entre ellas, las españolas Meliá e Iberostar— anunciaron que cesaban sus operaciones en la isla debido a las amenazas de sanciones hechas por la administración Trump.
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Rep Maria Elvira Salazar says we’ve been fooled by the Cuban government. But listening to her own argument, it sounds more like she’s fooling herself. When I pointed out that Cuba maintained universal healthcare and education while under U.S. sanctions, Maria Elvira didn’t deny it. She said Cuba was receiving support from the Soviet Union. Exactly. Cuba was under sanctions, received resources from an ally, and used them to fund social programs. Today, instead of allowing Cuba to trade and develop normally, Washington doubles down on economic punishment. You can criticize the Cuban government all you want. But after more than 60 years, collective punishment has not brought democracy. It has only made life harder for ordinary Cubans. END THE BLOCKADE NOW!
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Helen Yaffe's book, We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, is essential reading for understanding the material and ideological basis of Cuba's revolutionary resilience and resistance!
26 July 1989, #FidelCastro foresaw a total blockade of #Cuba that would not allow ‘even a litre of fuel to enter, nor a morsel of food'’. In such a scenario, he said, 'we know we would resist... [likewise] In the event of invasion or occupation of the country by Yankee troops’.
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"What would the US gov't do if we paid people to provoke destabilization in the US?" 🚨The US has announced new sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in an effort to pressure the island's leadership. WATCH a clip from our exclusive interview with President Díaz-Canel who highlights just a few of the efforts that the US has taken to undermine Cuba's sovereignty. Full film Cuba After Castro here: patreon.com/posts/cuba-after…
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♥️🇨🇺 This image represents the countries that have received medical cooperation or international solidarity from Cuba. More than 160 countries. Keep in mind that Cuba is a developing country, almost 70 years under the U.S. blockade. Cuba represents hope for the people of the 🌎
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26 July 1989, #FidelCastro foresaw a total blockade of #Cuba that would not allow ‘even a litre of fuel to enter, nor a morsel of food'’. In such a scenario, he said, 'we know we would resist... [likewise] In the event of invasion or occupation of the country by Yankee troops’.
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"Save" Cuba from what? Free education and healthcare?
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This headline is a blatant lie. Reuters claims in the headline that Cuba is ending Visa and MasterCard transactions. Then, in the second paragraph, you see what really happened. Cuba isn't doing anything. The U.S. is doing it with sanctions. That's called burying the lede and it should be considered misinformation. Putting it later in the article, after the clickbait headline, gives them plausible deniability. But we all know most people don't read. They react. Editors at Reuters know this too. reuters.com/world/americas/c…
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