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Malvika Nair retweeted
Cuba helped several African countries in their liberation struggles against brutal colonial occupiers, including against the apartheid regime in South Africa which the US backed and supported. That’s what he means by “radical left-wing terrorism”, just to be clear.
For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism. The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third-worldist movements across our hemisphere and beyond. Today, we are targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba's subversive and radical operations.
Pursuant to sanctions authorities created by President Trump’s groundbreaking Cuba Executive Order, I am designating the following entities:
1. Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (MINFAR)
2. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
3. Amistur Cuba S.A.
4. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
5. Minera La Victoria S.A.
Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of sanctions themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities.
The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes in our hemisphere seeking to threaten U.S. national security and engage in influence operations to export their poisonous and evil “revolution” to our country and around the world.
Malvika Nair retweeted
“Two things can be true at once” flattens the contradiction. The question isn’t whether racism *can* exist in Cuba. Of course postcolonial societies retain racial contradictions.
I am more interested in how these contradictions are situated historically and geopolitically, not just whether 2 claims can coexist. How this is being deployed *now* is to delegitimize the Cuban state/system itself under heightened imperialist assault, while erasing Cuba’s material history of anti-colonial + Pan-African/Pan-Caribbean solidarity in the process.
Late to post here, but sharing this article I wrote piecing together observations from my visit to Cuba this Jan, following the US attack on Venezuela abducting President Maduro, and amidst heightened aggressive rhetoric from Trump that Cuba would be next.
countercurrents.org/2026/04/…
Malvika Nair retweeted
❝We do not drop bombs on other peoples. We send doctors instead.❞
— Fidel Castro
Malvika Nair retweeted
🇨🇺 Chico Buarque cantando, Pequeña Serenata Diurna, de Silvio Rodríguez, en La Habana, Cuba... mi patria, la capital de la solidaridad del mundo 😎
Malvika Nair retweeted
La pasividad de América Latina ante la agresión del Imperio Epstein contra la digna isla de Cuba constituye sin duda la etapa más vergonzosa de toda nuestra historia.
La Habana 🇨🇺 Acabo de recuperar internet desde ayer. La luz del sol implacable vuelve a iluminar un país que resiste, y resiste solo porque casi toda América Latina –excepto México y algunos pueblos– lo ha dejado a merced del bloqueo imperial. Es triste. Izquierdas y derechas se olvidaron de Cuba después de lo mucho que ha hecho Cuba por América Latina sin preguntar qué bando político estaba al poder. Mi pueblo no debe sufrir las consecuencias de un capricho político de 2 señores por dominar el continente. ¿Por qué América Latina sigue quieta? Al menos acá, José Martí, quien quiso una América Unida –«del río Bravo a la Patagonia»– sigue de frente a esa embajada, señalando a los culpables: «Viví en el monstruo y le conozco las entrañas, pero mi honda es la David»
Malvika Nair retweeted
Small but significant protests have emerged in Cuba, not driven by internal dissent, but by deliberate and extreme U.S. pressure that is making daily life nearly impossible. Trump’s fuel blockade has pushed an already struggling people to the brink, after more than 60 years of economic warfare.
The goal is unmistakable: destabilize daily life to provoke internal collapse. A regime-change strategy coldly executed from Washington not by troops, but by engineered suffering that deprives Cubans of food, medicine, energy and about everything basic need. Trump and Rubio, unable to defeat Iran, and needing a quick victory soon are betting that desperation will turn into an uprising in Cuba.
The Cuban people are exhausted but are not deceived by Trump’s genocidal siege. They see the game. And they aren’t playing it.
Malvika Nair retweeted
"Cuba is willing to have a dialogue with the United States."
At a press conference on Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel told reporters his government is open to conversations with the U.S., but only under conditions of respect and equality. He also stated that Cuba will defend its sovereignty against the “plans for terrorist acts” currently being organized by the U.S., and that the country has not received fuel since December, when the naval blockade on Venezuela began.
Malvika Nair retweeted
The US is gearing up to literally starve Cuba into submission. It is absolutely criminal and obscene. And this to a country that everyone knows poses *zero* threat to the US.
The people of Cuba need our full solidarity in resisting this onslaught.
Two days to go before in-person registrations close! Do join us and help spread the word. Register here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/c…
📢Registrations for our conference are still open!
We have 15 promising presentations from scholars across the world on the theme of solidarity. Join us, either in-person or online, and help spread the word!
Full programme and registration details here:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/c…
Registrations for our Conference 'Is a Better World Possible?' are now open! Looking forward to welcoming you all to what we hope will be an enriching day-long conversation on solidarity in the current times. Do spread the word!
For more info: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/c…
We're delighted to announce that registration is now open to attend our hybrid Conference!
📍University of Warwick and online
📅 29 November 2025 (Saturday)
See the attached poster for registration details and the full programme.
More info: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/c…
ALT Poster with information regarding registration for the Conference
Malvika Nair retweeted
This year marks the beginning of the celebrations of a hundred years since the birth of Fidel Castro. His legacy is the ongoing struggle for a better world without imperialism, racism, zionism! #FidelCastro #Cuba #100AñosConFidel
Excited to have received over 160 abstracts from across the world, traversing many disciplines! Now on to the difficult part of making decisions, which we hope to complete by mid-August. A big thank you to all the contributors and to everyone who helped spread the word!!
Hoping this Conference, which I am co-organising at Warwick this November, contributes to conversations on what it means to extend solidarity in these difficult times.
Do send in your abstracts by July 15th, and please spread the word!
More details at: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/c…
TWO more days to go! Do send in your abstracts and join us in discussing what it means to be in solidarity in such tumultuous times. The sub themes we are interested in are also listed in the thread below, do take a look!
We are looking forward to reading your contributions!
Malvika Nair retweeted
A very important conference coming up at Warwick!
Sharing on behalf of @malvikatweets
Hoping this Conference, which I am co-organising at Warwick this November, contributes to conversations on what it means to extend solidarity in these difficult times.
Do send in your abstracts by July 15th, and please spread the word!
More details at: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/c…