The SVG Cuba Friendship Society joins our voice with those of the many civil society organisations around the world to condemn the latest attempts by the United States Government to further strangle the government of the Republic of Cuba.
We energetically reject the designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. The US Department of State knows this not to be true. This designation is but a pretext to further justify the unpopular and criminal economic and financial punishment to which Cuba has been subjected since 1962. The majority of members of the United Nations General Assembly has repeatedly voted for the lifting of these unjust sanctions to be removed.
Cuba, despite these coercive measures has shared the little it had on its plate with other poor nations around the world. This has come in the form of assistance in education, healthcare, sports and agricultural expertise.
The Executive Order announced on January 29 was meant to ensure that no shipments of vital petroleum reaches the Cuban people. This can only be described as spiteful if not downright criminal.
The Cuban government, in response has reiterated its call on the United States government to sit down and dialogue in the spirit of cooperation. This type cooperation had existed between both countries, even from the time the Cuban nation won its independence from Spain. It was only forced upon the Cuban nation in 1962. But there is much mutual benefit that can be gained from a peaceful relationship between these neighbouring nations.
We therefore join the call by the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Gutierrez for the United States of America to respect the sovereignty of the Cuban state. We also join the call by Pope Leo XIV for the United States to engage in talks with the Cuban government.
Cuba is not a state sponsor or terrorism. Cuba instead has hosted talks that led to peace between the long warring factions in Colombia. This is not supporting or proliferating terrorism by any measure.
It is Cuba which sent its sons to Africa to help the liberation movements throw off the yoke of colonialism and exploitation and led to the defeat of apartheid at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale.
That victory led to the release of Nelson Mandela, who himself had been designated a terrorist by the United States government.
It is Cuba which, in the midst of a 64-year economic and financial blockade by the United States, has shared the little it has with thousands of students from around the world and including the United States of America. Cuba has educated professionals who, in the vast majority, have returned to their countries to contribute to their development.
It is Cuba which shared its medical and other technical expertise with developing nations around the world, including some whose economies are way more developed than Cuba’s. That is a spirit of cooperation and love.
The rabid hatred which exists between Cubans who have chosen to live in the USA for their brothers, sisters and relatives who refuse to rise up against their own on the island, must not continue to colour the relations between the great United States and Cuba.
Attempting to strangle the Cuban economy only hurts children, women and ordinary persons on the island. There is a better way. Another approach is possible and desirable.
We appeal to the Government of the United States of America to find more lawful and meaningful ways to address their perceived differences with the Republic of Cuba. Cuba is not a threat to the USA and certainly should not be treated like an enemy.
Kingstown
February 9, 2026
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The Cuban people deserve to be freed from the tyranny and inhumanity of communism by any means possible.
Only Donald Trump can break the chains enslaving the people of Cuba.
Cuba is our sister island and doesn’t deserve the treatment the imperialist USA is dishing out to it. Cuba has always been a friend to SVG. SVG should stop being a coward following the USA when they do nothing to assist the country. Why should SVG now abandon Cuba for the imperialist USA? If you do this you have lost a supporter.
With totalitarian Marxist “friends” like Cuba, we and world sure don’t need any enemies.
Ask yourself why our people are far better off than those of Cuba by any social, political, or economic metric.
Please don’t answer that it’s because of the American trade and other blockades and sanctions because Cuba is freely able to trade, visit, and negotiate with nearly every other country in the world, including wealthy nations like Canada and the European ones.
China, the former Soviet Union, and many other communist countries ditched full state control of the means of production long ago because communism is an inherently flawed system that only benefits those at the top of its inhumane political pyramid.
Donald Trump is determined to set the people of Cuba free, yet you wish the enslavement of the Cuban masses to continue because this benefits little SVG.
Selfishness is a wicked human impulse!
It amazes me how quickly people are to call USA an Imperialist for standing up to Dictators asking them to free the political prisoners and their nation on a whole. But stay very quiet while these communist leaders torture and kill their own people for talking. I bet SAMO is in a country where he / she can criticize without going to jail. It’s called “Freedom of Speech”
C.BEN-DAVID Iam always disgusted reading any thing from the biggest moron in the town of Layou who goes by his alias C.Ben-David. I could easily reveal your name but I won’t. You predicted that the NDP will never seen the reins of power again to his dismay, the results were a forgone conclusion.
In this piece you appear as if you are the spokesperson on a matters that you clearly lacks expertise. Man i don’t want to get to personal, but preside over your disfunctional family first before you can be the mouth piece on matters related to Cuba is my advice to you.
It’s time to wake up from the Western propaganda. We hear that Haiti has no government, but not why it was destabilized. We aren’t told that Panama’s constitution was written by foreign powers. Now they are setting their sights on Venezuela, repeating the same playbook they used in Grenada. We need to stop believing the narrative and start seeing the pattern.
Donald Trump is a sick white man who doesn’t care about you shithole countries except if you have oil and minerals.