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Thomas Graham in Tijuana and Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana
Fri 30 Jan 2026 13.08 EST

Sheinbaum’s comments came after a week of increasing threats from Washington. US officials briefed that gunboats could be deployed off Cuba, and said efforts were under way to find Cuban ministers prepared to collaborate with the US.

Speaking on Wednesday, Mike Hammer, the US chargé d’affaires in Havana, said: “The Cubans have complained for years about a ‘blockade’, but now there is going to be a real blockade.”

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[–] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sanctions and blockades have always been sold as an attack against the government and not the people. That’s of course a complete lie - sanctions are meant to make the people suffer enough that they rise up against their government (or so the aggressor hopes).

But this is much more blatant. The ghouls in the Trump admin are openly stating they want to harm the people. They want to create a humanitarian crisis, create suffering, and kill people, all so the Cuban government sees this suffering and decides that capitulating is better than seeing their people die. Truly evil stuff.

There's literally a state department memo from the 50s saying, essentially, "we're gonna starve people so that they overthrow the government"

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Let's all sell some oil to cuba, and see how that works out for the usa

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

could trigger a humanitarian crisis

Yeah, that's the point of the blockade.

[–] LeviReid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

This type of sanctioning should be considered a war crime.