Déclaration de Zone de Paix

Déclaration de Zone de Paix

Déclaration de Zone de Paix

La Havane, Cuba | Août 2026

Comité de pilotage populaire pour une zone de paix dans notre Amérique

Résumé

Les organisations, mouvements sociaux et réseaux de base réunies à La Havane, Cuba, du 15 au 17

août 2026 dans le cadre de la « Campagne pour une zone de paix dans notre Amérique »,

commémorons le XIIème anniversaire de la Proclamation de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes comme

Zone de paix, adoptée lors du IIème Sommet de la Communauté d’États latino-américains et caraïbes

(CELAC) en 2014 ainsi que le concept qui lui précède de Caraïbes zone de paix proposé par Maurice

Bishop en 1980. Nous réaffirmons que cette déclaration est totalement d’actualité, et que l’engagement

de nos peuples pour garantir le respect de ce principe fondamental est inconditionnel.

L’actuelle Campagne pour une zone de paix dans notre Amérique, lancée le 4 avril 2023 en simultané

depuis La Havane à Cuba, Port-au-Prince en Haïti et Washington D.C aux États-Unis, survient comme

une réponse face à la menace croissante que constitue l’impérialisme états-unien pour la paix, la

souveraineté, l’auto-détermination, l’auto-défense, et la lutte populaire de nos peuples. Nous nous

réunissons à Cuba pour commémorer le Centenaire du Commandant en chef Fidel Castro Ruz, dont la

vision d’unité de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes continue de nous inspirer et de nous guider dans la

lutte pour une région libre d’ingérences, de militarisation et de domination impérialiste. Nous saluons

l’initiative et l’accueil chaleureux du peuple cubain qui prouve une fois de plus sa solidarité

internationaliste. En réponse à l’augmentation des attaques violentes de la part du gouvernement des

États-Unis d’Amérique contre la souveraineté de Cuba et son peuple, cette invitation se centre en

particulier sur la coordination de terrain et la nécessaire communication avec les organisations de base

de Cuba afin de faire face à ces formes létales de militarisation états-unienne -que ce soit au niveau

économique, politique, social et militaire- dans la lignée des principes de la Révolution cubaine.

Contexte politique des Amériques

Dans notre contexte politique actuel, l’administration de Donald Trump avec son secrétaire d’État

Marco Rubio à la tête du scénario d’agression contre notre paix régionale, fait revivre les pires

cauchemars de la Doctrine Monroe, en prétendant exercer un contrôle hégémonique sur Notre

Amérique et en travaillant au service des ambitions néo-colonialistes des USA et de ses alliés. Cela

inclut le « Bouclier des Amériques », une infâme initiative multinationale de coopération militaire qui

dissimule en réalité une stratégie d’intervention militaire, de contrôle territorial et de recolonisation de

nos nations, et constitue une violation de l’esprit et de la lettre de la Proclamation de Zone de paix.

D’un autre côté, nous assistons à une réorganisation de la droite et du néo-fascisme dans la région, ce

qui se traduit par des gouvernements et des forces politiques qui alignent leurs politiques avec les

intérêts de l’impérialisme états-unien. Les États-Unis ont renforcé de manière significative leur

présence militaire dans les Caraïbes et le Pacifique latino-américain avec le déploiement de navires de

guerre, avions de chasse et forces spéciales. De manières différentes, cette extension militaire a été

particulièrement forte à Porto Rico, en Équateur, en Haïti, en République Dominicaine et au Panama.

Près de 15.000 soldats états-uniens ont été déployés dans les Caraïbes, soit l’un des déploiements les

plus importants des dernières décennies dans la région. Plus encore, le blocus économique,

commercial, financier et énergétique imposé par les États-Unis contre Cuba s’est intensifié suite aux

ordres exécutifs qui augmentent sont caractère extra-territorial. Cela a provoqué une situation de

précarité dans la vie du peuple cubain, qui traverse aujourd’hui l’un des moments les plus difficiles de

l’histoire de sa glorieuse Révolution.

À partir de ces éléments de contexte, nous affirmons que :

 Nous nous solidarisons avec le peuple de Cuba face aux conséquences de cette

politique états-unienne impériale et génocide, et nous rejetons l’accusation contre le leader

de la Révolution cubaine et Général des Armées Raul Castro comme une violation du droit

international ; les récents ordres exécutifs et la position des tribunaux adoptés par

l’administration Trump qui violent le droit international ainsi que le rapport qui vient d’être publié

par le Département d’État des USA, intitulé « Cuba : la capitale du communisme du XXIème

siècle », qui cherche à menacer la paix, la collaboration internationale et la fraternité entre les

peuples.

 Nous dénonçons les exécutions extra-judiciaires dans les Caraïbes et le Pacifique ainsi

que la continuation d’une occupation silencieuse en Haïti, présentées comme faisant partie de

la supposée lutte contre le terrorisme et le narcotrafic par les agences états-uniennes.

 Nous appelons toutes les forces progressistes des Caraïbes et du Pacifique à soutenir,

rejoindre et encourager le processus visant l’obtention pour les nations caribéennes restantes

d’une indépendance politique totale et d’une intégration régionale totalement souveraine.

 Nous refusons la présence du commandement Sud (SOUTHCOM) et de l’OTAN dans la

région, ainsi que son bras fasciste impérialiste qui se fait appeler « Bouclier des

Amériques » et nous appelons les peuples de Notre Amérique à s’organiser pour y résister.

 Nous dénonçons ces exercices militaires et l’augmentation de la militarisation de nos

territoires qui convertissent la région en champ de bataille et mettent en danger la stabilité et le

maintien de la région comme Zone de paix.

 Nous condamnons l’agression militaire contre la République Bolivarienne du Venezuela

et nous exigeons fermement la libération du Président constitutionnel de la République

Bolivarienne du Venezuela séquestré, Nicolás Maduro Moros ainsi que de la Première

combattante Cilia Flores, de la part des forces militaires états-uniennes.

 Nous dénonçons les attaques juridiques (sanctions) et médiatiques contre l’Institut

cubain pour l’amitié entre les peuples (ICAP), les membres de son personnel et ses activités

solidaires, ainsi que l’accusation de « terrorisme » visant à précariser la solidarité internationale.

 Nous défendons la souveraineté de l’ensemble des pays de la région avec une attention

particulière à la souveraineté de Cuba, du Venezuela et du Nicaragua.

Notre devoir d’organisation

Étant donnés la conjoncture politique actuelle et l’état de l’assaut impérialiste contre les peuples des

Amériques et du monde, il est clair que la paix est un pré-requis à la survie humaine et de la planète.

La Tradition de paix radicale noire maintient que la paix n’est pas l’absence de conflit, mais plutôt

l’obtention par la lutte populaire et l’auto-défense d’un monde libéré de l’oppression interconnectée et

intersectionnelle. Nous pouvons ainsi garantir et récupérer le développement d’une Zone de paix

depuis les peuples vers les centres de pouvoir, sur la base de la lutte contre l’impérialisme, le

militarisme, la suprématie blanche, le patriarcat et autres structures d’oppression. La garantie d’une

Zone de paix depuis les peuples suppose une vision du respect des Droits humains centrés sur les

peuples, l’anti-colonialisme et l’anti-impérialisme, la défaire de la suprématie blanche et du patriarcat, et

le développement d’une paix véritable et juste.

En ayant en vue les défis de notre région, nous appelons les forces du continent à établir trois priorités

définitives pour aller vers une Zone de paix garantie par la lutte contre l’impérialisme et le militarisme

états-unien :

1. Défendre Cuba et sa Révolution contre la guerre impérialiste.

2. Expulser les bases, installations et enclaves militaires étrangères ; et retirer les troupes

d’occupation étrangères.

3. Lutter -par l’intégration et la mobilisation- pour la libération définitive de tous les territoires

occupés et pour l’obtention de leur souveraineté, leur auto-détermination et leur indépendance

nationale, en mettant l’accent sur l’engagement avec l’auto-détermination de tous les pays

caribéens de langue créole, anglaise, espagnole, française et néerlandaise, comme élément clé

permettant d’avancer dans la décolonisation de toute la région.

NOUS RÉAFFIRMONS NOTRE SOLIDARITÉ AVEC L’ENSEMBLE DES PEUPLES DE LA RÉGION

QUI RÉSISTENT FACE À L’AGRESSION IMPÉRIALISTE.

NON À LA GUERRE CONTRE CUBA !

VIVE NOTRE AMÉRIQUE COMME ZONE DE PAIX ! VIVE L’UNITÉ ENTRE NOS PEUPLES !

Proclamé à La Havane, Cuba, le 17 août 2026.

Declaración de Zona de Paz

Declaración de Zona de Paz

Declaración de Zona de Paz

La Habana,Cuba | Agosto 2026
Comité Directivo Popular por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América 

Resumen

Las organizaciones, movimientos sociales y redes de base aquí reunidas en La Habana, Cuba, del 15 al 17 de agosto de 2026, en el marco de la “Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América”, conmemoramos el XII aniversario de la Proclama de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz, adoptada en la II Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) en 2014, tanto como su concepto anterior del Caribe como Zona de Paz de Maurice Bishop en 1980. Reafirmamos la plena vigencia de esa declaratoria y el compromiso irrestricto de nuestros pueblos de garantizar el respeto hacia ese principio fundamental.

La actual Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América – lanzada el 4 de abril de 2023 simultáneamente en La Habana, Cuba; Puerto Príncipe, Haití; y Washington D.C., EE. UU. – surge como respuesta a la creciente amenaza que representa el imperialismo estadounidense para la paz, la soberanía, la autodeterminación y autodefensa, y la lucha popular de nuestros pueblos. Nos reunimos en Cuba para conmemorar el Centenario del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, cuya visión de unidad latinoamericana y caribeña nos inspira y guía en la lucha por una región libre de injerencias, militarización y dominación imperialista. Saludamos la iniciativa y la cálida acogida del pueblo cubano, que una vez más demuestra su solidaridad internacionalista. En respuesta a los crecientes ataques violentos del gobierno de Estados Unidos contra la soberanía de Cuba y su pueblo, esta convocatoria en particular se centra en la coordinación sobre el terreno y la comunicación necesaria con organizaciones de base en Cuba para hacer frente a estas formas letales de militarización estadounidense —económica, política, social y militarmente— en línea con los principios de la Revolución Cubana.

Contexto Político en las Américas 

En nuestro contexto político actual, la administración de Donald Trump, con el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio a la cabeza del más reciente escenario de ataque a nuestra paz regional, ha reactivado los peores fantasmas de la Doctrina Monroe, pretendiendo ejercer un control hegemónico sobre Nuestra América y operando al servicio de las ambiciones neocolonialistas de EE. UU. y sus socios. Esto incluye el “Escudo de las Américas”, una infame iniciativa multinacional de cooperación militar que encubre en realidad una estrategia de intervención militar, control territorial y recolonización de nuestras naciones, y representa una violación del espíritu y la letra de la Proclama de Zona de Paz. 

Al lado de esto, asistimos a una reorganización de la derecha y el neofascismo en la región, que se expresa en gobiernos y fuerzas políticas que alinean sus políticas con los intereses del imperialismo estadounidense. Estados Unidos ha reforzado significativamente su presencia militar en el Caribe y el Pacífico latinoamericano con buques, aviones de combate y fuerzas especiales. De distintas formas, esta extensión militar ha sido muy fuerte específicamente en Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Haití, República Dominicana y Panamá. Alrededor de 15.000 soldados estadounidenses están desplegados en el Caribe, en uno de los mayores despliegues en la región en décadas. Sobre todo, el bloqueo económico, comercial, financiero y energético impuesto por Estados Unidos contra Cuba se ha recrudecido mediante órdenes ejecutivas que intensifican su carácter extraterritorial. Esto ha originado una situación de precariedad en la vida del pueblo cubano, el cual vive uno de los momentos más difíciles en la historia de su gloriosa Revolución. 

Con todo esto contexto, pronunciamos las siguientes posturas:

  • Nos solidarizamos con el pueblo de Cuba ante las consecuencias de esta imperial y genocida política estadounidense y denunciamos la acusación contra el líder de la Revolución Cubana y General del Ejército Raúl Castro como una violación del derecho internacional, tanto como las recientes órdenes ejecutivas y posturas judiciales adoptadas por la administración Trump que violan el derecho internacional y el informe más reciente publicado por el Departamento de Estado de EE. UU., titulado "Cuba: La Capital del Comunismo del Siglo XXI", que pretende amenazar es la paz, la colaboración internacional, y la fraternidad entre los pueblos.

  • Denunciamos las ejecuciones extrajudiciales en el Caribe y el Pacifico, tanto como la continuación de una ocupación no nombrada de Haiti, presentadas como parte de la falsa lucha contra el terrorismo y el narcotráfico de agencias estadounidenses.

  • Llamamos a todas las fuerzas progresistas del Caribe para que apoyen, alcancen y lideren el proceso para que las naciones caribeñas restantes alcancen la plena independencia política y la integración regional con soberanía.

  • Rechazamos la presencia del Comando Sur y la OTAN en la región, tanto como el brazo fascista imperialista bajo la denominación de  "El Escudo de las Américas" y llamamos a los pueblos de Nuestra América a organizarse para resistirlos.

  • Denunciamos estos ejercicios militares y la creciente militarización de nuestros territorios, que convierten a la región en un escenario de conflicto y ponen en peligro la estabilidad y el mantenimiento del área como Zona de Paz.

  • Condenamos la agresión militar a la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y exigimos firmemente la libertad del secuestrado Presidente Constitucional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros, junto a la Primera Combatiente Cilia Flores, por parte de fuerzas militares estadounidenses.

  • Denunciamos los ataques jurídicas (sanciones) y mediáticos contra el Instituto Cubano de Amistado con los Pueblos (ICAP) y sus funcionarios y actividades solidarias, tanto como el uso del cargo del “terrorismo” para precarizar la solidaridad internacional.  

  • Defendemos la soberanía de todos los países de la región con especial atención a la soberanía de Cuba, Venezuela y Nicaragua.

Deberes organizativos

Comprendiendo la coyuntura política actual y el estado del asalto imperialista contra los pueblos de las Américas y el mundo, está claro que la paz es un requisito para la supervivencia humana y planetaria. La Tradición de la Paz Radical Negra sostiene que la paz no es la ausencia de conflicto, sino el logro, mediante la lucha popular y la autodefensa, de un mundo liberado de la opresión interconectada e interseccional. Así garantizamos y recuperamos el desarrollo de una Zona de Paz desde los pueblos hacia los centros del poder, con la lucha contra el imperialismo, el militarismo, la supremacía blanca, el patriarcado, y las demás estructuras de opresión. La garantía de una Zona de Paz, desde los pueblos, exige un enfoque del respeto de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos, el anticolonialismo y el antiimperialismo, la derrota de la supremacía blanca y el patriarcado, y el desarrollo de una paz verdadera y justa. 

Con mirada a los desafíos de nuestra región, llamamos a las fuerzas del continente para tomar tres  prioridades definitivas hacia una Zona de Paz garantizada por la lucha contra el imperialismo y militarismo estadounidense:

  1. Defender a Cuba y su Revolución contra la guerra imperialista

  2. Expulsar bases, instalaciones y enclaves militares extranjeros; y retirar las tropas de ocupación extranjeras.

  3. Luchar – a través de la integración y la movilización – por la liberación definitiva de todos los territorios ocupados y por el logro de su soberanía, autodeterminación e independencia nacional, con énfasis en el compromiso con la autodeterminación de todos los países caribeños de habla kreyol, inglesa, española, francesa y holandesa, como elemento clave para avanzar la descolonización en toda la región.

REAFIRMAMOS NUESTRA SOLIDARIDAD CON TODOS LOS PUEBLOS DE LA REGIÓN QUE RESISTEN LA AGRESIÓN IMPERIALISTA.

¡NO A LA GUERRA CONTRA CUBA!

¡VIVA NUESTRA AMÉRICA COMO ZONA DE PAZ! ¡VIVA LA UNIDAD ENTRE NUESTROS PUEBLOS!

Proclamada en La Habana, Cuba, a los 17 días del mes de agosto de 2026.

Declaration of a Zone of Peace

Declaration of a Zone of Peace

Declaration of a Zone of Peace

Havana, Cuba | August 2026
Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas 

Summary

The organizations, social movements, and grassroots networks gathered here in Havana, Cuba, from August 15 to 17, 2026, as part of the “Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas,” commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, adopted at the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in 2014, as well as Maurice Bishop’s earlier concept of the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace in 1980. We reaffirm the full validity of that declaration and the unrestricted commitment of our peoples to ensure respect for this fundamental principle.

The current Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas — launched on April 4, 2023, simultaneously in Havana, Cuba; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Washington, D.C., U.S. — arises in response to the growing threat posed by U.S. imperialism to peace, sovereignty, self-determination, and self-defense, as well as to the popular struggle of our peoples. We are gathering in Cuba to commemorate the centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, whose vision of Latin American and Caribbean unity inspires and guides us in the struggle for a region free from interference, militarization, and imperialist domination. We salute the initiative and the warm welcome extended by the Cuban people, who once again demonstrate their internationalist solidarity. In response to the United States’ escalating violent attacks against the sovereignty of Cuba and its people, this particular gathering focuses on on-the-ground coordination and the necessary communication with grassroots organizations in Cuba to confront these lethal forms of U.S. militarization — economic, political, social, and military — in line with the principles of the Cuban Revolution.

Political Context in the Americas 

In our current political context, the Donald Trump administration—with Secretary of State Marco Rubio leading the latest wave of attacks on our regional peace—has revived the worst specter of the Monroe Doctrine, seeking to exercise hegemonic control over Our Americas and acting in service of the neocolonialist ambitions of the U.S. and its partners. This includes the “Shield of the Americas,” an infamous multinational military cooperation initiative that in reality masks a strategy of military intervention, territorial control, and recolonization of our nations, and represents a violation of the spirit and letter of the Peace Zone Proclamation. 

Alongside this, we are witnessing a reorganization of the right wing and neo-fascism in the region, manifested in governments and political forces that align their policies with the interests of U.S. imperialism. The United States has significantly reinforced its military presence in the Caribbean and the Latin American Pacific with ships, fighter jets, and special forces. In various ways, this military expansion has been particularly pronounced in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Panama. Approximately 15,000 U.S. troops are deployed in the Caribbean, marking one of the largest deployments in the region in decades. Above all, the economic, commercial, financial, and energy blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba has been tightened through executive orders that intensify its extraterritorial nature. This has created a precarious situation for the Cuban people, who are experiencing one of the most difficult periods in the history of their glorious Revolution. 

Against this backdrop, we state the following positions:

  • We stand in solidarity with the people of Cuba in the face of the consequences of this imperialist and genocidal U.S. policy, and we denounce the charges against the leader of the Cuban Revolution and Army General Raúl Castro as a violation of international law, as well as the recent executive orders and judicial rulings adopted by the Trump administration that violate international law and the most recent report published by the U.S. State Department, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st-Century Communism,” which seeks to threaten peace, international cooperation, and brotherhood among peoples.

  • We denounce extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean and the Pacific, as well as the continuation of an undeclared occupation of Haiti, presented as part of U.S. agencies’ false war on terrorism and drug trafficking.

  • We call on all progressive forces in the Caribbean to support, encourage, and lead the process for the remaining Caribbean nations to achieve full political independence and regional integration with sovereignty.

  • We reject the presence of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and NATO in the region, as well as the fascist imperialist tool and group called “The Shield of the Americas,” and call on the peoples of Our Americas to organize to resist these structures.

  • We denounce these military exercises and the growing militarization of our territories, which turn the region into a theater of conflict and endanger the stability and preservation of the area as a Zone of Peace.

  • We condemn the military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and we firmly demand the release of the kidnapped Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, along with First Lady Cilia Flores, who were abducted by U.S. military forces.

  • We denounce the legal attacks and media war against the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and its officials and solidarity activities, as well as the broader use of “terrorism charges” to destabilize international solidarity.  

  • We defend the sovereignty of all countries in the region, with special attention to the sovereignty of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Organizational Tasks

Given the current political situation and the state of the imperialist assault against the peoples of the Americas and the world, it is clear that peace is a prerequisite for human and planetary survival. The Black Radical Peace Tradition holds that peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the achievement—through popular struggle and self-defense—of a world liberated from interconnected and intersectional oppression. With this understanding, we will guarantee and reclaim the development of a Zone of Peace, emerging from the peoples of the region toward the centers of power, through the struggle against imperialism, militarism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and all other structures of oppression. Guaranteeing a Zone of Peace, starting from the people, requires an approach focused on People(s)-Centered Human Rights, anticolonialism, and anti-imperialism; the defeat of white supremacy and patriarchy; and the development of a true and just peace. 

In light of the challenges facing our region, we call on the forces of the continent to adopt three definitive priorities toward a Zone of Peace guaranteed by the struggle against U.S. imperialism and militarism:

  1. Defend Cuba and its revolution against imperialist war.

  2. Expel foreign military bases, facilities, and enclaves; and withdraw foreign occupation troops.

  3. Fight – through integration and mobilization – for the definitive liberation of all occupied territories and for the achievement of sovereignty, self-determination and national independence, with emphasis on a commitment to the self-determination of all Kreyol-speaking, English-speaking, Spanish-speaking, French-speaking, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries, as key to advancing decolonization across the region.

WE REAFFIRM OUR SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE REGION WHO ARE RESISTING IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION.

NO WAR ON CUBA!

LONG LIVE OUR AMERICAS AS A ZONE OF PEACE! LONG LIVE UNITY AMONG OUR PEOPLES!

Proclaimed in Havana, Cuba, on the 17th day of August 2026.


-EN ESPANOL-

Declaración de Zona de Paz

La Habana,Cuba | Agosto 2026
Comité Directivo Popular por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América 

Resumen

Las organizaciones, movimientos sociales y redes de base aquí reunidas en La Habana, Cuba, del 15 al 17 de agosto de 2026, en el marco de la “Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América”, conmemoramos el XII aniversario de la Proclama de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz, adoptada en la II Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) en 2014, tanto como su concepto anterior del Caribe como Zona de Paz de Maurice Bishop en 1980. Reafirmamos la plena vigencia de esa declaratoria y el compromiso irrestricto de nuestros pueblos de garantizar el respeto hacia ese principio fundamental.

La actual Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América – lanzada el 4 de abril de 2023 simultáneamente en La Habana, Cuba; Puerto Príncipe, Haití; y Washington D.C., EE. UU. – surge como respuesta a la creciente amenaza que representa el imperialismo estadounidense para la paz, la soberanía, la autodeterminación y autodefensa, y la lucha popular de nuestros pueblos. Nos reunimos en Cuba para conmemorar el Centenario del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, cuya visión de unidad latinoamericana y caribeña nos inspira y guía en la lucha por una región libre de injerencias, militarización y dominación imperialista. Saludamos la iniciativa y la cálida acogida del pueblo cubano, que una vez más demuestra su solidaridad internacionalista. En respuesta a los crecientes ataques violentos del gobierno de Estados Unidos contra la soberanía de Cuba y su pueblo, esta convocatoria en particular se centra en la coordinación sobre el terreno y la comunicación necesaria con organizaciones de base en Cuba para hacer frente a estas formas letales de militarización estadounidense —económica, política, social y militarmente— en línea con los principios de la Revolución Cubana.

Contexto Político en las Américas 

En nuestro contexto político actual, la administración de Donald Trump, con el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio a la cabeza del más reciente escenario de ataque a nuestra paz regional, ha reactivado los peores fantasmas de la Doctrina Monroe, pretendiendo ejercer un control hegemónico sobre Nuestra América y operando al servicio de las ambiciones neocolonialistas de EE. UU. y sus socios. Esto incluye el “Escudo de las Américas”, una infame iniciativa multinacional de cooperación militar que encubre en realidad una estrategia de intervención militar, control territorial y recolonización de nuestras naciones, y representa una violación del espíritu y la letra de la Proclama de Zona de Paz. 

Al lado de esto, asistimos a una reorganización de la derecha y el neofascismo en la región, que se expresa en gobiernos y fuerzas políticas que alinean sus políticas con los intereses del imperialismo estadounidense. Estados Unidos ha reforzado significativamente su presencia militar en el Caribe y el Pacífico latinoamericano con buques, aviones de combate y fuerzas especiales. De distintas formas, esta extensión militar ha sido muy fuerte específicamente en Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Haití, República Dominicana y Panamá. Alrededor de 15.000 soldados estadounidenses están desplegados en el Caribe, en uno de los mayores despliegues en la región en décadas. Sobre todo, el bloqueo económico, comercial, financiero y energético impuesto por Estados Unidos contra Cuba se ha recrudecido mediante órdenes ejecutivas que intensifican su carácter extraterritorial. Esto ha originado una situación de precariedad en la vida del pueblo cubano, el cual vive uno de los momentos más difíciles en la historia de su gloriosa Revolución. 

Con todo esto contexto, pronunciamos las siguientes posturas:

  • Nos solidarizamos con el pueblo de Cuba ante las consecuencias de esta imperial y genocida política estadounidense y denunciamos la acusación contra el líder de la Revolución Cubana y General del Ejército Raúl Castro como una violación del derecho internacional, tanto como las recientes órdenes ejecutivas y posturas judiciales adoptadas por la administración Trump que violan el derecho internacional y el informe más reciente publicado por el Departamento de Estado de EE. UU., titulado "Cuba: La Capital del Comunismo del Siglo XXI", que pretende amenazar es la paz, la colaboración internacional, y la fraternidad entre los pueblos.

  • Denunciamos las ejecuciones extrajudiciales en el Caribe y el Pacifico, tanto como la continuación de una ocupación no nombrada de Haiti, presentadas como parte de la falsa lucha contra el terrorismo y el narcotráfico de agencias estadounidenses.

  • Llamamos a todas las fuerzas progresistas del Caribe para que apoyen, alcancen y lideren el proceso para que las naciones caribeñas restantes alcancen la plena independencia política y la integración regional con soberanía.

  • Rechazamos la presencia del Comando Sur y la OTAN en la región, tanto como el brazo fascista imperialista bajo la denominación de  "El Escudo de las Américas" y llamamos a los pueblos de Nuestra América a organizarse para resistirlos.

  • Denunciamos estos ejercicios militares y la creciente militarización de nuestros territorios, que convierten a la región en un escenario de conflicto y ponen en peligro la estabilidad y el mantenimiento del área como Zona de Paz.

  • Condenamos la agresión militar a la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y exigimos firmemente la libertad del secuestrado Presidente Constitucional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros, junto a la Primera Combatiente Cilia Flores, por parte de fuerzas militares estadounidenses.

  • Denunciamos los ataques jurídicas (sanciones) y mediáticos contra el Instituto Cubano de Amistado con los Pueblos (ICAP) y sus funcionarios y actividades solidarias, tanto como el uso del cargo del “terrorismo” para precarizar la solidaridad internacional.  

  • Defendemos la soberanía de todos los países de la región con especial atención a la soberanía de Cuba, Venezuela y Nicaragua.

Deberes organizativos

Comprendiendo la coyuntura política actual y el estado del asalto imperialista contra los pueblos de las Américas y el mundo, está claro que la paz es un requisito para la supervivencia humana y planetaria. La Tradición de la Paz Radical Negra sostiene que la paz no es la ausencia de conflicto, sino el logro, mediante la lucha popular y la autodefensa, de un mundo liberado de la opresión interconectada e interseccional. Así garantizamos y recuperamos el desarrollo de una Zona de Paz desde los pueblos hacia los centros del poder, con la lucha contra el imperialismo, el militarismo, la supremacía blanca, el patriarcado, y las demás estructuras de opresión. La garantía de una Zona de Paz, desde los pueblos, exige un enfoque del respeto de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos, el anticolonialismo y el antiimperialismo, la derrota de la supremacía blanca y el patriarcado, y el desarrollo de una paz verdadera y justa. 

Con mirada a los desafíos de nuestra región, llamamos a las fuerzas del continente para tomar tres  prioridades definitivas hacia una Zona de Paz garantizada por la lucha contra el imperialismo y militarismo estadounidense:

  1. Defender a Cuba y su Revolución contra la guerra imperialista

  2. Expulsar bases, instalaciones y enclaves militares extranjeros; y retirar las tropas de ocupación extranjeras.

  3. Luchar – a través de la integración y la movilización – por la liberación definitiva de todos los territorios ocupados y por el logro de su soberanía, autodeterminación e independencia nacional, con énfasis en el compromiso con la autodeterminación de todos los países caribeños de habla kreyol, inglesa, española, francesa y holandesa, como elemento clave para avanzar la descolonización en toda la región.

REAFIRMAMOS NUESTRA SOLIDARIDAD CON TODOS LOS PUEBLOS DE LA REGIÓN QUE RESISTEN LA AGRESIÓN IMPERIALISTA.

¡NO A LA GUERRA CONTRA CUBA!

¡VIVA NUESTRA AMÉRICA COMO ZONA DE PAZ! ¡VIVA LA UNIDAD ENTRE NUESTROS PUEBLOS!

Proclamada en La Habana, Cuba, a los 17 días del mes de agosto de 2026.

Pledge of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution: We Refuse to Back Down!

Pledge of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution: We Refuse to Back Down!

Pledge of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution: We Refuse to Back Down!
6 August 2026

For more than six decades, the United States has pursued an illegal and inhumane blockade against Cuba that has amounted to a crime against humanity. This policy systematically deprives the Cuban people of essential medicine and food, restricts access to fuel, financial transactions, and logistical transport, and fundamentally undermines Cuba's sovereign development. The express purpose and intent, as outlined in the April 1960 State Department Mallory-Rubottom memo, is to promote popular dissatisfaction with the Cuban government by creating extreme economic hardship in order to achieve regime change. That intent is now carried forward by US Special Envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone, who has committed to weekly intensification of the newly imposed total oil blockade and to closing every avenue for Cuba to move forward. Claver-Carone's own words reveal the cruelty: "Surprise, and when they think they have a little light at the end of the tunnel, that light will go out."

At a moment when Washington is tightening its siege of Cuba while escalating its attacks on those who stand in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, silence and retreat are not options. We urge organizations and individuals committed to peace, justice, and national sovereignty to read and endorse the following pledge—and to stand together against the blockade and the criminalization of Cuba solidarity.

Cuba is not a threat to the US or any other nation. On the contrary, the blockade is a threat, not only to Cuba but to the people of the world. Its reach is coercive and punitive: pressuring small nations to break medical partnerships, punishing global travelers for legal visits to Cuba, adding Cuba in the State Department List of State Sponsors of Terrorism which automatically sets into play automatic sanctions, and cynically indicting former Cuban president Raul Castro for supposed murder of U.S. citizens, which aims to serve as the pretext for an illegal military intervention, like the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores. 

A Global Majority of states has voted year after year since 1992 in the U.N. General Assembly to end this blockade, yet the U.S. has consistently ignored these votes. In 2023 and 2024, for example, 187 nations voted to lift the embargo, opposed only by the genocidal states of the United States and Israel. And in January 2026, President Trump tightened the blockade including intensifying extraterritorial measures and tariff threats against third party suppliers like Mexico, thus denying Cuba vital fuel shipments—an oil siege that is collective punishment—while increasing military threats of regime change. Only one oil tanker has delivered oil to Cuba since December 2025, causing multiple nationwide blackouts. This is slow genocide.  

At the same time, the administration is consolidating its legal architecture of fascist repression at home to demonize and criminalize the Cuba solidarity movement when it is most needed. In the face of this ongoing imperialist aggression, Cuba stands as a beacon of global solidarity and a living example that another world is possible. With this pledge, we commit to support the Cuban revolution in their struggle for sovereignty against the US imperialist blockade.

The intensified targeting of the Cuba solidarity movement here is part of a broader attack on the U.S. left—progressive and radical movements supporting social justice, liberation, and human dignity. This includes the McCarthyite "Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism" international conference held on July 16, 2026, and the State Department‘s release on July 20, 2026, of a 100-page propaganda report bearing the name of Secretary of State Marco Rubio—a document that endeavours to serve as the ideological justification for the escalating assault on Cuba, the Cuba solidarity movement, and all political dissent on the left.

The report casts a wide net of unfounded accusations, maliciously painting over 40 movement organizations and individuals as purported Cuban “front groups,” while employing guilt-by-association tactics to smear even elected officials. It goes so far as to cite reports from the long-discredited House Un-American Activities Committee, reviving Cold War conspiracy theories from the 1950s and repackaging them for the present. The report's explicit purpose is to criminalize Cuba's existence while omitting the actual cause of Cuban suffering: the blockade. This propaganda offensive transforms lawful solidarity work into "subversion" and "terrorism."

This propaganda comes at a moment when the Trump administration is consolidating its legal architecture of fascist repression globally and domestically. On June 4, 2026, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Cuban President Díaz-Canel, ICAP, and the Amistur Travel Agency as Specially Designated Nationals. OFAC has also begun issuing "Requests for Information" letters to organizers of delegations to Cuba, in order to chill travel and humanitarian work through threatened financial and criminal penalties, alongside the threatened deployment of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), historically used to target left-wing organizations. The clear aim is to stifle solidarity speech, weaken collective organizing, and force individuals and organizations into retreat.

This strategy echoes the historic deployments of the "Red Scare"—to criminalize dissent and reframe legitimate political struggle as a “national security threat”. From the Smith Act (1940) to the Taft Hartley (1947), from McCarran Act (1950) and COINTELPRO (1956-1971), to the present, the state has built layer upon layer of legal repression targeting militant workers, leftists, anti-imperialists, and Black and other oppressed peoples’ liberation movements.

We wear this political targeting like a badge of honor, a sign that our work opposing U.S. military and economic domination of other sovereign states has been effective. What we are doing is legal and just. We will not be silenced. We will not be divided. We will not retreat.

We call on all people of conscience to demand an end to the blockade of Cuba, to oppose National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) and all legal and policy frameworks that criminalize and demonize dissent, and to join the National Network on Cuba’s No War on Cuba Campaign. The same forces blockading Cuba, committing genocide in Gaza, destabilizing the Americas, and assaulting our immigrant, Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are deploying their weight against anti-war and solidarity organizers in the U.S. Our repression is shared; our liberation must be too. Try as they might, they cannot imprison a movement!

We pledge to resist the state’s attempts to criminalize our movement through legal defense and offensive work, political education, media and mass mobilization. The blockade will not stop us from sending more delegations and humanitarian aid. We denounce Marco Rubio’s McCarthyite attacks, stand unapologetically for Cuban sovereignty, and will unite across borders to expand our solidarity movement.

 

No War on Cuba! Let Cuba Live! Venceremos!

 

Initial signers:

Alliance for Global Justice

Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective

Black Alliance for Peace

Carlotas Warriors for Cuba

CODEPINK

National Network on Cuba (NNOC)

National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL)

National Lawyers Guild

Nodutdol

Resist U.S.-Led War Movement

Task Force on the Americas

United National Antiwar Coalition

Veterans for Peace

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective

Workers World Party

US Peace Council (USPC)

 

Endorsers:

African Independence Party for Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde (PAIGC)

All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)

Anti-Displacement NYC

Church Women United in New York State

Gayle McLaughlin, Former mayor of Richmond, CA

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice

Haiti Action Committee

 Jemez Peacemakers

Los Ronderos de las Redes

National Jericho Movement

NYC Jericho Amnesty Movement

People’s Power Assembly

Socialist Action

Struggle for Socialism Party

West Africa People's Organization (WAPO)

Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement

Women in Struggle/Mujeres en Lucha

 

This pledge draws from and builds on our comrade organization statements, including:

In Unwavering Solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle:   A Call for Unified Action Among the U.S. Left 

In Unwavering Solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle:  A Call for Unified Action Among the U.S. Left 


In Unwavering Solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle: 

A Call for Unified Action Among the U.S. Left 

The recent declaration of war published by the U.S. fascist state attacking Cuba and its allies serves as a glaring call for urgent and strategic unity among the targeted organizations, the broadest sectors of the U.S. left, and all people of conscience. It comes as no surprise that a scrambling empire would see organized, sustained resistance that refuses to silently accommodate its lawless, genocidal attacks on human rights globally as a credible threat. Directly out of their imperialist playbook, it is quite clear that this is an attempt to criminalize Cuba’s existence while intentionally omitting the actual cause of suffering for the Cuban people - the decades-long blockade systematically depriving them of food, medicine, and fuel, designed to strangle the revolution by all available means.

Although the report’s intention is not new, it provides renewed consideration of the question of what is to be done. That is, in its naming of various “guilty parties” among the U.S. left, it reiterates who has been, and will continue to be, on the cutting edge of repression. Both in its historical references to African revolutionaries like Assata Shakur and Kwame Ture, and recalling the nationwide opposition to the execution of George Floyd, the state continues to point its repressive apparatus at colonized and oppressed populations, first and foremost, at Africans fighting for self-determination. 

Our resistance must be rooted in the politics of African/Black liberation, not just in ideology and practice, but in the organizational structures that will allow for such a path to be charted and achieved - one that is driven by African/Black leadership. Through the framework of People(s)-Centered Human Rights, we understand that the process of decolonization can only be advanced when it is led by those most oppressed by the U.S. settler state.

For non-Africans, the task ahead requires that we show up more fully and with more principle and discipline alongside African revolutionaries - not as an act of charity, but as a political commitment of mutual comradeship that materializes the inextricable link uniting our collective struggle against our common enemy.

When politics command our organization, we effectively strategize and commit to action in a way that reflects our unwavering solidarity with African liberation and the Black Radical Peace Tradition. In other words, the social, economic, and political benefits that stand to be gained by compromising or retreating on our principles must be rejected if we are to commit to an authentic application of our anti-colonial, anti-oppressive, and anti-imperialist politics.

Kwame Ture reminds us of the necessity to move from mere influence to collective power. We are at a precipice where the call for a unified resistance requires the rejection of liberalism and siloed leftist “influence,” and the embrace of swift and strategic unification that leverages our collective power against state violence intended to neutralize anyone unwilling to submit to its oppressive forces. The path to win is before us and has been laid out by Africans leading this struggle - historically and today.

We do not underestimate the power of our enemy. Their militarized forces occupy our streets and our psyches. These violent systems of repression lay the groundwork for the intensification to come. Our response demands a resistance rooted in collective struggle for systemic change that shifts power to the people: the heart of People(s)-Centered Human Rights. Most importantly, we will continue, relentlessly, in our unbending solidarity with Cuba, in defense of its people, its sovereignty, and the integrity of its revolutionary process. 

The Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network

Nodutdol

CODEPINK

National Lawyers Guild

Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

National Students for Justice in Palestine

Nolympics 

CUNY for Palestine

Taxpayers Against Genocide

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

Workers World Party

Palestinian Youth Movement
National Jericho Movement
NYC Jericho Movement

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign

South Central About Face - Veterans Against the War


No Compromise, No Retreat

Sign on to the statement here to stand in solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle and be plugged in to deepened coordination.

Give U.S. Fascism and War a Red Card: Refuse Acceptance of World Cup Trophy from Blood-Soaked Hands of U.S. Empire!

Give U.S. Fascism and War a Red Card: Refuse Acceptance of World Cup Trophy from Blood-Soaked Hands of U.S. Empire!

Give U.S. Fascism and War a Red Card!
Refuse Acceptance of World Cup Trophy from Blood-Soaked Hands of U.S. Empire!

The body count and war crimes of the fascist U.S. settler state mount with each passing day. On the first day of Operation Epic Fury launched against Iran, 168 Iranians, primarily children, in Minab were murdered in their classrooms by US missiles, and the slaughter of innocents by U.S. imperialist forces has continued unabated and unashamedly since.

From the lethal blockade on Cuba, the invasion of Venezuela, the renewed war on Iran, the U.S. occupation of Haiti, the forced extraction of resources in the Congo, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the blood of hundreds of thousands of victims of US imperialism covers the claws of the fascist U.S. regime.

Every week, the U.S. Gestapo, ICE, adds to the horrendous atrocities within the U.S.

As the World Cup entered the semifinals, ICE thugs murdered two immigrant fathers, Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, site of seven World Cup matches.

These crimes against humanity must have consequences, and the guilty must be brought to justice. We refuse impunity as a response to lawless U.S. war crimes and endless murders and aim to disrupt any and all normalization, complicity, and collusion with this blatantly fascist U.S. agenda for global domination.

To that end:

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition (AFFC) urges the winner of the 2026 World Cup to refuse acceptance of the World Cup trophy from the blood-soaked hands of Trump and the U.S. state.

Do not let your historic victory be used to wash the image of the U.S. Empire.

If (and when) FIFA refuses to remove Trump from the Ceremony, AFFC urges the winners and runners-up to refuse a handshake from Trump, turn their backs on him, and not allow him to join them for the lifting of the trophy.

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition insists that a moment of silence, a memorial tribute, be held before the final match kickoff for the 168 Iranians of Minab slaughtered by US forces and the two immigrant fathers murdered this week by ICE.

Six moments of silence have been held and broadcast so far within the tournament, to honor the Venezuelan earthquake victims, the death of South African footballer Jayden Adams, and the victims of the wildfires in southern Spain.

The U.S. and FIFA will not recognize the humanity of the 168 people that they directly murdered in Iran. We refuse their devaluation of non-white life and insist on their commemoration.

The AFFC will not be intimidated by the fearmongering tactics of U.S. repression and neutralization of those willing to stand up against fascism. Join us in the Global Network as we collectively struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights

The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Joins the Call for the Remaining Teams in the World Cup to Withdraw and Urges People of Conscience to Fight Back Against U.S. Fascism

The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Joins the Call for the Remaining Teams in the World Cup to Withdraw and Urges People of Conscience to Fight Back Against U.S. Fascism

The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Joins the Call for the Remaining Teams in the World Cup to Withdraw and Urges People of Conscience to Fight Back Against U.S. Fascism

For Immediate Release

Contact: communications@blackallianceforpeace.com

(201) 292-4591 

On July 8, The Black Alliance for Peace called for the remaining teams in the World Cup to withdraw from the tournament to reject the lawlessness and impunity of the U.S. in its renewed active warfare against Iran as well as the ongoing, illegal, and barbaric acts of genocide in Palestine and Lebanon. On July 9, the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition (AFFC), composed of 35 international organizations, joined the call with fervor. 

The AFFC is clear: The U.S. is the greatest violator of human rights on the planet. The reignited war on Iran is one atrocity among the dozens of war crimes the U.S. is waging globally. We cannot and will not normalize genocide and state violence by allowing the World Cup to uphold “business as usual.” 

“The renewal of hostilities against Iran, the persistence of Israel’s U.S.-backed bombardment of Lebanon during the so-called ceasefire, and Israel’s assassination of Mohammed Fawaz al-Wahidi moments before the Egypt-Argentina match are reasons enough for the remaining nations to withdraw from the tournament,” said Julio López Torres, of Diaspora Pa’lante Collective. 

“Add to this, the violence being carried out by the Trump regime in the United States. In Houston, just three days after hosting a World Cup match, ICE agents murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. In a city that hosted seven World Cup matches, including two knockout games, a man was executed for going to work. A country that still has colonial possessions, like the colonization of my country of Puerto Rico (which is used as a launching ground to wage war on the Caribbean and Latin America), was never worthy of hosting the beautiful game.”

Orlando Mateo, of Compas de la Diaspora, stated, “It is a disgrace that the imperialist, carceral-genocidal machine called the United States has been allowed to host the World Cup in the first place, given their role in the Gaza Holocaust. However, the recent aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as escalations in the domestic war against the immigrant proletariat – by way of increased deportation, inhumane conditions at detention centers, and cancellation of TPS for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians – plus the U.S. just hosted Israel for the World Baseball Classic! - all of that should prompt any free, conscious person, federation, state or fútbol player to retire from the rest of this sham tournament. Anything less than that is complicity.” 

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition calls on organizations and individuals to collectively resist and fight back - to join in this call for concrete solidarity from the international community against the U.S. agenda for global domination at the ongoing expense of human life. The AFFC continues its commitment to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S., forcefully rejecting the ongoing devaluation of non-white life displayed by the U.S., FIFA, and its corporate ruling class partners. 

Join hundreds of organizations and individuals endorsing the Campaign for further coordinated action in our struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights: bit.ly/EndorseNow 

Return Venezuela’s Stolen Wealth for Full Quake Recovery

Return Venezuela’s Stolen Wealth for Full Quake Recovery

Return Venezuela’s Stolen Wealth for Full Quake Recovery

We extend our full solidarity and condolences to the Venezuelan people as they grapple with the human tragedy caused by the twin earthquakes of June 24, 2026. We applaud emergency aid to rescue those under the rubble and meet the needs of the living victims.

This natural disaster comes on top of the U.S. invasion and kidnapping of the president in January, several months of extrajudicial killings in Venezuela’s territorial waters, years of deadly U.S. sanctions, and the theft of Venezuela’s assets overseas.

In order to allow Venezuela to rebuild and recover from this disaster, we demand that the United States:

  • Fully and permanently lift all sanctions on Venezuela;

  • Return Venezuela’s oil revenues to the Venezuelan government;

  • Unfreeze all of Venezuela’s overseas assets—including billions in gold and other currencies held at the Bank of England and elsewhere;

  • Free President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores from the U.S. jail where they are being illegally held as political prisoners; and

  • Refrain from using disaster relief as an excuse for military occupation.

The U.S. government’s pretense of friendship to Venezuela rings hollow, after years of U.S. sanctions and military aggression have caused several tens of thousands of deaths. U.S. assistance for reconstruction will be paltry compared to the massive heist it has perpetrated against the country through assets theft and sanctions. What Venezuela needs for post-earthquake reconstruction is the return of the billions of dollars the U.S. government and its allies have stolen.

It is time to return to Venezuela what rightfully belongs to Venezuela.

Leading Organizers from the Following Organizations and the individuals listed below support this statement to return Venezuela’s stolen wealth.  

Organizations:

SanctionsKill/Americas Without Sanctions, United National Anti-war Coalition (UNAC), Venezuela Solidarity Network, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Task Force on the Americas, CODEPINK, US Peace Council, Veterans For Peace, CUNY for Palestine, Popular Resistance, Resist US-Led War Movement, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, Rights Action U.S./Canada, Alliance for Global Justice, Anti War Action Network, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee WILPF-US, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle of Toronto, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Struggle for Socialism Party, People’s Power Assembly, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, Canadian BDS Coalition, International BDS Allies, Brooklyn Against War, Bronx Antiwar, Workers World Party, Rights Action – U.S./Canada, International Action Center

Individuals:

Nick Estes, The Red Nation; Cira Pascual Marquina, Popular Educator and Author; Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis;  Jesús Rodríguez, Orinoco Tribune; Cindy Domingo, US Women and Cuba Collaboration; Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives; Joe Emersberger, writer; Lucy Pagoada, Voices of Resistance on WBAI; Gloria Guillo, Uncontrolled Opposition Podcast;

(This statement was initiated by the SanctionsKill Campaign.)


Devuélvanse las riquezas robadas a Venezuela para una recuperación total tras el terremoto

Expresamos nuestra plena solidaridad y nuestras más sinceras condolencias al pueblo venezolano, que se enfrenta a la tragedia humana provocada por los dos terremotos del 24 de junio de 2026. Aplaudimos la ayuda de emergencia destinada a rescatar a quienes se encuentran bajo los escombros y a atender las necesidades de los damnificados.

Esta catástrofe natural se suma a la invasión estadounidense y al secuestro del presidente en enero, a varios meses de ejecuciones extrajudiciales en aguas territoriales venezolanas, a años de sanciones mortales impuestas por Estados Unidos y al robo de los activos de Venezuela en el extranjero.

Para que Venezuela pueda reconstruirse y recuperarse de esta catástrofe, exigimos lo siguiente a Estados Unidos:

  • Levantar total y definitivamente todas las sanciones impuestas a Venezuela;

  • Devolver los ingresos petroleros de Venezuela al Gobierno venezolano;

  • Descongelar todos los activos de Venezuela en el extranjero, incluidos los miles de millones en oro y otras divisas depositadas en el Banco de Inglaterra y en otros lugares;

  • Liberar al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a la primera dama Cilia Flores de la cárcel estadounidense donde se encuentran recluidos ilegalmente como presos políticos; y

  • Abstenerse de utilizar la ayuda humanitaria como pretexto para una ocupación militar.

Pretending to be a “friend of Venezuela” after years of U.S. sanctions and military aggression have caused several tens of thousands of deaths, rings hollow. U.S. assistance for reconstruction will be paltry compared to the massive heist it has perpetrated against the country through assets theft and sanctions. What Venezuela needs for post-earthquake reconstruction is the return of the billions of dollars the U.S. government and its allies have stolen.

Fingir ser un «amigo de Venezuela» después de años de sanciones y agresiones militares por parte de EE. UU., que han causado varias decenas de miles de muertes, suena a falso. La ayuda de EE. UU. para la reconstrucción será insignificante en comparación con el enorme saqueo que ha perpetrado contra el país mediante el robo de activos y las sanciones. Lo que Venezuela necesita para la reconstrucción tras el terremoto es la devolución de los miles de millones de dólares que el Gobierno de EE. UU. y sus aliados le han robado.

Es hora de devolver a Venezuela lo que por derecho le pertenece.

Organizaciones:

SanctionsKill/Americas Without Sanctions, United National Anti war Coalition (UNAC), Venezuela Solidarity Network, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Task Force on the Americas, CODEPINK, US Peace Council, Veterans For Peace, CUNY for Palestine, Popular Resistance, Resist US-Led War Movement, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, Rights Action U.S./Canada, Alliance for Global Justice, Anti War Action Network, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee WILPF-US, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle of Toronto, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Struggle for Socialism Party, People‘s Power Assembly, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, Canadian BDS Coalition, International BDS Allies, Brooklyn Against War, Bronx Antiwar, Workers World Party, International Action Center

Individuos:

Nick Estes, The Red Nation; Cira Pascual Marquina, Popular Educator and Author; Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis;  Jesús Rodríguez, Orinoco Tribune; Cindy Domingo, US Women and Cuba Collaboration; Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives; Joe Emersberger, writer; Lucy Pagoada, Voices of Resistance on WBAI; Gloria Guillo, Uncontrolled Opposition Podcast;

(Esta declaración fue iniciada por la campaña SanctionsKill.)

Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago

Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago

Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago

The arrest of Alyssa Phillip, a leader in the Justice for Kaia Sealy movement, during the Labour Day celebrations in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago, is a stark demonstration of how state power is being deployed to suppress legitimate, people(s)-centered demands for justice, and a troubling illustration of the government's full alignment with the current U.S. regime’s abandonment of even the pretense of a commitment to internationally recognized human rights standards.

The Labour Day arrest was particularly egregious. Police in tactical gear surrounded Phillip and her mother, escorting her into a police vehicle. The stated justification that Phillip could not join the march because she was not part of a trade union has been universally dismissed as "nonsense" by trade union leaders, who note that Phillips was invited to participate as Labour Day celebrations have always welcomed all citizens.

Alyssa Phillip, Sealy's former schoolmate, has organized nineteen protests demanding transparency and accountability for the January 20 police involved shooting that left Joshua Samaroo dead and Kaia Sealy critically injured. Sealy, a mother and hairstylist with no criminal background, has been extradited from the U.S. and charged with manslaughter and shooting with intent. The movement's supporters have rightly framed this as a struggle for justice, human rights, democracy, and national accountability, issues that transcend narrow legal technicalities and speak to the fundamental principle that no institution should be above accountability.

The recent arrest of Phillip is part of a broader pattern of suppression that began with the introduction of "no-protest zones" under the State of Emergency is part of a broader pattern of suppression that, critically, was intensified during the period when Trinidad served as a launchpad for the U.S. military buildup against Venezuela, as the government's permission for U.S. military access and joint exercises in late 2025 signaled a deepening alignment with U.S. strategic interests that coincided with heightened domestic security measures. These measures, which prohibit protests within 500 meters of 15 key state institutions, were enacted shortly after protests linked to the Samaroo-Sealy matter gained momentum. In fact, Phillip and her mother were previously arrested and granted TT$10,000 bail on charges of "disorderly behavior" and "influencing public opinion in a manner prejudicial to public safety" under the Emergency Powers Regulation, charges that chillingly criminalize the very act of speaking out.

This is intimidation pure and simple - an attempt to silence a voice that authorities find inconvenient. The arrest must also be understood within the broader context of the government's wholesale embrace of U.S. foreign policy and security frameworks. Since taking office, the UNC government has hitched Trinidad and Tobago's fortunes to the United States, mirroring its rhetoric and supporting its most controversial geopolitical decisions.

The Prime Minister has openly praised U.S. military operations in the Caribbean, declaring that "all drug traffickers should be killed violently," and has welcomed the expansion of U.S. military presence in the region, including the installation of a military-grade radar system in Tobago. The alignment of Trinidad’s government with U.S. positions on Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, moving in lockstep to designate Hezbollah, Hamas, the IRGC, and Tren de Aragua as terrorist entities while intensifying domestic no-protest enforcement during the military buildup against Venezuela, renders those adopted positions complicit in policies recognized as constituting crimes against humanity, war crimes, and violations of the UN Charter, particularly when such designations and security measures serve to criminalize dissent and facilitate foreign military objectives under the guise of national security. The government has even distanced itself from Caricom's historic stance of neutrality and the "Zone of Peace" principle, calling the regional body an "unreliable partner".

This subservience to American interests has consequences for domestic political legitimacy and national sovereignty. The securitized approach prioritizing law enforcement and restriction over accountability and fundamental human rights mirrors the very approach the U.S. has exported globally. The suppression of protest under the guise of "security" is a reflection of this alignment. When a government embraces external power dynamics that prioritize order over justice and human rights, domestic dissent becomes the first casualty.

The people of Trinidad and Tobago deserve better. We stand in solidarity with Alyssa Phillip and all those who refuse to abandon truth, justice, and people(s)- centered human rights.

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We Resist the Blaring U.S. Plans for Increased Violence, Deportations, and Domination that are Evident in U.S. World Cup Host Cities, Cuba, and Globally

We Resist the Blaring U.S. Plans for Increased Violence, Deportations, and Domination that are Evident in U.S. World Cup Host Cities, Cuba, and Globally

We Resist the Blaring U.S. Plans for Increased Violence, Deportations, and Domination that are Evident in U.S. World Cup Host Cities, Cuba, and Globally

As the world’s eyes turn toward the United States for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hyper-militarization is unfolding in African and working class communities. In Kansas City, the city government has passed an ordinance explicitly stating that a new municipal jail is being constructed in time for the World Cup. The contract for this facility was awarded to Brown and Root Industrial Services, the same corporation that built the notorious prison camps at Guantánamo Bay. This is a direct material connection linking U.S. imperialist violence abroad to the repression of working-class Black, brown, and Indigenous communities in the U.S.. 

The U.S. settler-colonial state weaponizes incarceration as a tool to neutralize anyone it deems "criminal." As the World Cup approaches, this domestic repression is escalating under the direction of the White House Task Force for FIFA 2026. We are witnessing a massive surge in militarization, with ICE, the National Guard, and local police departments aligning to effectively occupy entire cities. The primary targets of this preemptive containment are the masses of working-class people who will be held captive in these newly minted cages. 

Meanwhile, the 60+ year long blockade of Cuba has recently intensified, directly attacking the ability of Cubans to access fuel. This escalation, combined with the bogus indictment of Raúl Castro, represents nothing less than a declaration of war. It is a calculated attempt to crush Cuba’s sovereignty, spearheaded by the very same forces that use jails to manage surplus, racialized populations domestically. We cannot separate the violence inflicted on the Cuban people from the violence inflicted on the domestic working class, because the same corporations profiting from imperial war and detention abroad are profiting from the expansion of domestic incarceration in preparation for FIFA 2026.

We refuse to let corporate sporting events serve as a cover for fascism, displacement, and torture, and we stand in unified resistance to protect our communities and defend internationalism. To establish a true Zone of Peace in Our Americas, we demand:

  • An immediate end to U.S. imperial aggression in the region, meaning the United States must lift the blockade on Cuba, 

  • Remove Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, dismantle the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), and 

  • Unconditionally return the illegally occupied territory of Guantánamo Bay to the Cuban people. 

Furthermore, we call on all sports fans, players, and organizations to join the Anti Fascist Football Coalition in demanding to move the games, urging a total boycott of the 2026 World Cup matches and a boycott of the U.S. as a host state. We must organize where we stand to build ground-level resistance capable of disrupting the U.S. fascist state by forming networks that can resist ICE raids, fight municipal jail expansions, and expose the actors responsible for the death and destruction imposed upon humanity and the planet by the U.S. war machine. 

More information on the Campaign to Move the Games, Boycott the World Cup, and Boycott the U.S.: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/move-the-games/ 

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Nos oponemos a los evidentes planes de los Estados Unidos de aumentar la violencia, las deportaciones y el dominio, que se manifiestan en las ciudades estadounidenses sede del Mundial, en Cuba y en todo el mundo

Mientras los ojos del mundo se dirigen hacia los Estados Unidos con motivo de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026, se está produciendo una super-militarización en las comunidades africanas y de clase trabajadora. En Kansas City, el gobierno municipal ha aprobado una ordenanza que establece explícitamente que se está construyendo una nueva cárcel municipal a tiempo para la Copa del Mundo. El contrato para esta instalación se adjudicó a Brown and Root Industrial Services, la misma corporación que construyó los notorios campos de prisioneros en la Bahía de Guantánamo. Esta es una conexión material directa que vincula la violencia imperialista de EE. UU. en el extranjero con la represión de las comunidades negras, morenas e indígenas de clase trabajadora en EE. UU..

El Estado colonialista de los EE. UU. utiliza el encarcelamiento como arma para neutralizar a cualquiera que considere «criminal». A medida que se acerca la Copa del Mundo, esta represión interna se está intensificando bajo la dirección del Grupo de Trabajo de la Casa Blanca para la FIFA 2026. Estamos presenciando un aumento masivo de la militarización, con el ICE, la Guardia Nacional y los departamentos de policía locales alineándose para ocupar efectivamente ciudades enteras. Los objetivos principales de esta contención preventiva son las masas de la clase trabajadora que serán retenidas en estas jaulas recién construidas.

Mientras tanto, el bloqueo contra Cuba, que dura ya más de 60 años, se ha intensificado recientemente, afectando directamente la capacidad de los cubanos para acceder al combustible. Esta escalada, combinada con la falsa acusación contra Raúl Castro, no representa otra cosa que una declaración de guerra. Se trata de un intento calculado de aplastar la soberanía de Cuba, encabezado por las mismas fuerzas que utilizan las cárceles para controlar a las poblaciones excedentes y racializadas a nivel nacional. No podemos separar la violencia infligida al pueblo cubano de la violencia infligida a la clase trabajadora nacional, porque las mismas corporaciones que se benefician de la guerra imperialista y las detenciones en el extranjero se están beneficiando de la expansión del encarcelamiento nacional en preparación para la FIFA 2026.

Nos negamos a permitir que los eventos deportivos corporativos sirvan de tapadera para el fascismo, el desplazamiento y la tortura, y nos mantenemos en resistencia unificada para proteger a nuestras comunidades y defender el internacionalismo. Para establecer una verdadera Zona de Paz en nuestras Américas, exigimos:

  • El fin inmediato de la agresión imperialista de EE. UU. en la región, lo que significa que Estados Unidos debe levantar el bloqueo contra Cuba,

  • Retirar a Cuba de la lista de Estados patrocinadores del terrorismo, desmantelar el Comando Sur de EE. UU. (SOUTHCOM) y

  • Devolver incondicionalmente al pueblo cubano el territorio ilegalmente ocupado de la Bahía de Guantánamo.

Además, hacemos un llamado a todos los aficionados al deporte, a los jugadores y a las organizaciones para que se unan a la Coalición Antifascista de Fútbol y exijan el traslado de los partidos, instando a un boicot total de los partidos del Mundial de 2026 y a un boicot contra Estados Unidos como país anfitrión. Debemos organizarnos desde donde estamos para construir una resistencia de base capaz de desestabilizar al Estado fascista de EE. UU., formando redes que puedan resistir las redadas del ICE, luchar contra la expansión de las cárceles municipales y desenmascarar a los responsables de la muerte y la destrucción impuestas a la humanidad y al planeta por la maquinaria bélica estadounidense.

Más información sobre la Campaña para Trasladar los Juegos, Boicotear la Copa del Mundo y Boicotear a EE. UU.: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/no-al-mundial-en-los-ee-uu/ 

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