The US Embargo of Cuba Is Genocide

Cuba is on the verge of a complete shutdown of their economic and social infrastructure. Since the illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fuel shipments from Venezuela to Cuba have been aggressively seized by the United States preventing vital fuel from reaching the besieged island nation. There are hospital patients relying on electrical life support machines, monitors, and other instruments of care. There are farmers with agricultural machines that cannot be fueled to work the farms producing food. There are riders on buses and public transports that will grind to a halt, whose livelihoods will grind to a halt as well. Every aspect of Cuban life will be impacted and devastated.

Since even before the tanker seizures began the objectives of the wider US trade embargo have been clear. The United States will suffer no examples of non-capitalist alternatives in its imperial sphere of influence. Venezuela and Cuba are two very prominent examples of peoples asserting their dignity and sovereignty in opposition to US imperialist domination and exploitation. The United States has been unequivocal in its determination to destroy these governments and the example they set for others seeking more than subservience to the hegemonic power.

The Socialist Party USA condemns once again in the strongest terms the illegal, immoral, and inhumane US blockade of the sovereign nation of Cuba. The refusal of the United States government to allow humanitarian shipments from all countries of fuel, and any other supplies or goods to Cuba demonstrates unambiguously the genocidal intentions of this policy.

To the working people in the United States, we have no enemy among the workers of other nations. It is the capitalists of our own country who have put us on the edge of homelessness, unemployment, poverty, hunger, and disease. It is the capitalists of our own country who drag us time and again into crimes against humanity while we plead for peace and for a future for ourselves and all our children. The capitalists and their political parties do not care and will not lend an ear to our cries or those of any Cuban or Venezuelan. They must be fought! Their power must be broken! Find your comrades in the Socialist Party USA and join the fight for freedom, equality, and a future worth living!

Passed by the SPUSA National Executive Committee 2/13/2026