The U.S. State Department’s report, Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, is an embarrassing piece of propaganda. American taxpayers paid for 100 pages of recycled Cold War talking points, conspiracy theories, and baseless smears that read like they were generated by AI after being prompted to “make these people sound like terrorists” instead of “make this factual.” At a time when the State Department should be doing the hard work of diplomacy, it is wasting public resources producing propaganda designed to justify more hostility toward Cuba and more repression against domestic opponents.
Sign our Message to Secretary of State Marco Rubio!
Secretary Rubio,
Your State Department’s report, Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, is a disgraceful political attack on the Cuban people and on Americans who oppose war, sanctions, and economic coercion. It belongs in the trash.
This report attempts to smear organizations like CODEPINK and dozens of solidarity, labor, legal, faith, and social justice groups as dangerous simply because they organize, speak out, travel to Cuba, deliver humanitarian aid, and demand an end to a policy that has inflicted suffering on millions of people for more than sixty years.
Instead of acknowledging the devastating consequences of decades of U.S. economic warfare against Cuba, your report recycles Cold War fearmongering and baseless allegations against organizations including CODEPINK, IFCO/Pastors for Peace, The People’s Forum, Black Alliance for Peace, the National Network on Cuba, the National Lawyers Guild, and many others. Rather than defending diplomacy, it attacks those working for peace.
While millions of Cubans struggle under a U.S. blockade that restricts access to food, medicine, fuel, and other essential goods, your State Department has chosen to spend taxpayer dollars attacking the very people trying to ease that suffering. Even more outrageously, humanitarian organizations that delivered medical supplies to children’s hospitals are now under investigation, while the policies creating the humanitarian crisis continue without consequence.
This report is a joke but the blockade isn’t.
For more than sixty years, the United States has tried to isolate, punish, and strangle Cuba. It has failed.
Stop targeting peace and justice organizations, and end the use of the State Department as a vehicle for Cold War propaganda instead of diplomacy.
It is time to let Cuba live. It is time to end the blockade. It is time to end the sanctions.
Sincerly,