Bulletin #15 Caribes

CLACSO Working Group Crisis, responses and alternatives in the Greater Caribbean 
Caribbean Bulletin
Year 7 – Number #15 Cuba in the eye of the Empire: between suffocation and resistance
February – March 2026

CONTENT

Editorial

Blockade, sanctions and economic coercion: the United States' policy towards Cuba

• Defend Cuba from US attempts to crush it
  Helen Yaffe
• The blockade against Cuba: distortions of free trade, geopolitical power and
  contradictions of democratic discourse
  Martha Quiñones Domínguez
• New US sanctions against Cuba
  Melina J. Iturriaga Bartuste
• Cuba under suffocation: escalation of the blockade and reconfiguration of US pressure (2017–2026)
  Lourdes M. Regueiro Bello and Claudia Marín Suárez

The encirclement of Cuba in the contemporary imperial offensive: global and regional dynamics

• Cuba, Venezuela, Iran: Links of the same neo-fascist imperial logic
  Maribel Aponte García
• The reconquest of the continent and the siege of Cuba
  Consuelo Ahumada
• The correctable anomaly: imagined debt, total violence, and insistence
  sovereign in Venezuela (August 2025 – February 2026)
  Sandra Angeleri
• The Caribbean and Cuba face Trump's threats
  Jacqueline Laguardia Martínez