Stop the billionaires from turning Cuba into Epstein Island, colonizing and impoverishing its people
Friday, May 29, 5 p.m., Elk & Canal
For 67 years, Cuba has been subjected to U.S. trade blockades, invasions, assassination attempts, and sabotage of its industries and farms. Now the U.S. is threatening a new attack based on phony charges against the revolutionary Cuban leader Raúl Castro. The U.S.’s goal? To recolonize Cuba on behalf of plantation owners, mob bosses, and billionaires.
Despite decades of U.S. attacks, Cuba has built a socialist democracy that guarantees free, high-quality healthcare and free education that includes college and medical school. For years, Cuba maintained a lower infant and maternal mortality rate than Louisiana despite the illegal blockade enforced by the U.S. government.
Cubans practice true democracy, electing working-class representatives to build and protect their country. Here at home, voting rights are attacked, and millions across the country are illegally removed from voting rolls.
Before the revolution, Cuba was segregated with Black Cubans kept from good jobs, education, and even beaches. Extreme poverty, illiteracy, and segregation were eliminated by socialist Cuba. Its constitution declares equal rights for women and LGBT people.
The hardships that Cuba faces today—especially the suffering caused by Trump’s oil blockade—are all part of a brutal campaign by U.S. capitalists to roll back the gains made by the Cuban Revolution. Trump’s oil blockade is causing electricity blackouts, and sanctions are preventing medical supplies and other necessities from reaching everyday Cuban people.
We are being denied equality and basic needs while war profiteers loot the Treasury and Louisiana’s government hands out billions in corporate tax exemptions. We need to learn from Cuba to win our own fight for healthcare, education, and housing here at home.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Cuba immediately offered to send doctors to help, but the U.S. refused our residents this help. They stood with us then, now let’s stand with them.
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