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January 31, 2026


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U.S. passes executive order declaring Cuba “unusual and extraordinary threat”
Which country and whose and what interests are actually the “extraordinary threat”?
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The “whole charade of Western liberal democracy is a corpse under the rubble [with] tens of thousands of Palestinians”, Arundhati Roy recently said. This charade is exposed almost every day now in response to the ramped-up U.S.-led onslaught across the planet, that is directly enabled by the open support or hypocritical silent acquiescence of long-time Western allies (Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, etc.).

And forget not that this onslaught against Cuba and targets across the planet is occurring as the racist, violent onslaught of the U.S. government continues unabated against people inside the U.S.

Below: Updates about the latest ratcheting-up of violent interventionism by the U.S. against the long-time besieged Cuba

The point is not to ‘drop what you are doing’ and focus now on Cuba. Rather, the point is to further connect the dots as to how our global human order actually works, from Guatemala, Honduras (where Rights Action works) and the Americas, to Palestine, Iran and beyond; and to point out, again and again, the direct support or complicit silence of “the West”.

Which country and whose and what interests are actually the “extraordinary threat”?

Grahame Russell
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January 29, 2026

JUST IN | President Trump has signed a sweeping executive order declaring Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat" and authorizing broad new sanctions, including punishing foreign countries that sell oil to the island, even indirectly. The move comes as the Financial Times reports Cuba has just 15–20 days of oil left, after US pressure helped halt Venezuelan shipments and Mexico’s Pemex suspended a delivery. The shortage has already fueled near-daily blackouts and fuel rationing. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government provides oil to Cuba via contracts with Pemex and via humanitarian aid mechanisms, the latter she said would continue. The order tightens a blockade strategy that leverages economic collapse and humanitarian crisis under the guise of national security.

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@BrunoRguezP ([link removed]) (Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs)
January 30, 2026

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the new #US ([link removed]) escalation against #Cuba ([link removed]) . Now the US government intends to impose a total blockade on Cuba's fuel supplies. In order to justify that, it resorts to a long list of lies with the purpose of portraying Cuba as a threat, which it actually is not. Every day there are new evidence showing that the only threat to peace, security and stability in the region and the only malignant influence is the one exerted by the US government against the peoples and nations of our America. It intends to submit them to its dictates, deprive them of their resources, mutilate their sovereignty and deprive them of their independence. The US government is also resorting to blackmail and coercion in an attempt to make other countries to join its universally condemned blockade policy against Cuba; and if they refuse to do so, it is threatening to apply arbitrary and abusive
tariffs in violation of all free trade rules. We denounced to the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people on which it has imposed, for more than 65 years, the longest-lasting and most cruel blockade ever imposed against an entire nation and which it now has committed to subject to extreme living conditions.

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If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too
By Belén Fernández, Al Jazeera columnist, 29 Jan 2026

As the United States tightens the screws, Cuba’s supposed allies respond with nothing but empty gestures and selective solidarity.
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Rights Action (U.S. & Canada)

Since 1995, Rights Action funds land, justice, human rights and democracy struggles, and environment, development and emergency relief projects primarily in Guatemala and Honduras. Rights Action works to denounce and hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, global companies, investors and banks (World Bank, etc.) that help cause and profit from exploitation and poverty, repression and human rights violations, environmental harms, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.

Change media sources

Rights Action urges folks to diversify their news sources as an antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the government and corporate media in the U.S., E.U. and Canada. We recommend The Gray Zone ([link removed]) , Democracy Now ([link removed]) , DropSite News ([link removed]) , The Real News Network ([link removed]) , CounterPunch news ([link removed]) , The Intercept ([link removed]) , Canadian Foreign Policy Institute ([link removed]) , The Breach ([link removed]) , rabble.ca ([link removed]) , Orinoco Tribune ([link removed]) , Al Jazeera News ([link removed]) (coverage of Palestine),

Follow work of other solidarity/NGO groups
* Honduras Now: www.hondurasnow.org
* Honduras Solidarity Network: www.hondurassolidarity.org
* Friendship Office of the Americas: www.friendshipamericas.org
* NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with People of Guatemala): www.nisgua.org
* GHRC (Guatemalan Human Rights Commission): www.ghrc-usa.org
* Breaking the Silence: www.breakingthesilenceblog.com
* PLATAFORMA CANADA-Guatemaltecos Exiliados por Terrorismo de Estado, [link removed], [link removed]
* CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with People of El Salvador): www.cispes.org
* CRISTOSAL [link removed]
* Share El Salvador: [link removed] ([link removed])
* CRISPAZ: [link removed]
* Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition: [link removed] ([link removed])
* Friends of Latin America: www.friendsoflatinamerica.org
* Friendship Office of the Americas: www.friendshipamericas.org
* Peace Brigades International-Canada: www.pbicanada.org
* Mining Watch Canada: www.miningwatch.ca
* Mining Injustice Solidarity Network: www.mininginjustice.org
* Mining Justice Alliance: www.miningjusticealliance.wordpress.com
* Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: www.foreignpolicy.ca
* Common Frontiers Canada: www.commonfrontiers.ca
* Alliance for Global Justice: www.afgj.org
* CODEPINK: www.codepink.org
* World Beyond War: [link removed]
* Venezuela Solidarity Network: [link removed]

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