02/06/2026
31st May, 2026
PUBLIC RELEASE STATEMENT
CLARION CALL FOR AN END TO THREAT TO KIDNAP CUBA’S LEADERS
The New African Charter International (NACI) vehemently condemns the United States government for trying to import Venezuelan-styled terrorism into Cuba. Since its inception in January 2026, the Trump administration in Washington has repeatedly threatened to intervene in Cuba militarily, to bomb and destroy public infrastructures built through the sweat of the Cuban people and to implement regime change in that country.
Like Iran, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Russia, China and Africa, Cuba is being the target of undue pressure by succeeding administrations in Washington. By signing Presidential executive order on May 1, 2026 placing himself above international law with the right to take over Cuba, the action of President Donald Trump can be seen as nothing but a ploy to abduct and indict on bogus charges one of Cuba’s revolutionary heroes, Raúl Castro, in ways similar to the criminal terrorism unleashed on Venezuela on 3rd January, 2016 resulting into the kidnapping and imprisonment of Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly member Cilia Flores.
Since the dawn of the great 1959 revolution in Cuba, the US has unleashed one genocidal attack after another on the Cuban people. The list of terrorism attacks, attempted high profile political assassinations, bombings, sabotage, chemical germ warfare, economic war and ill-intentioned lies is long and sordid. Yet the Cuban people have not surrendered, and are not ready to give up their fight to protect and defend national independence, sovereignty or homeland dignity.
Cuba is Cuba; and there are no traitors, betrayals or sell-outs in Cuba. Touch Cuba, you touch Africa and the progressive world. NACI strongly condemns the US government’s relentless and systematic attacks against Cuba, its deliberate and systematic obstruction of economic and commercial activities, and its committing of crimes against humanity and war crimes against Cuba. We call on the African Union (AU) to stand unequivocally and unconditionally with the people of Cuba in their struggle against these imperialist onslaughts. The AU must not be deceived by the Trump administration’s carefully choreographed gestures designed to demonise Cuba’s revolutionary leaders and misrepresent the Caribbean nation.
What is wrong if Cuba decides to import medicines and medical instruments, and that this should be regarded as a threat to US national security? What has Cuba done to warrant deprivation of fuel supply, electricity-thus cutting off power to hospitals, including infant incubators, and making it extremely difficult to get treatment for children with cancer? What perverted pleasures the neo-cons in Washington can take by obstructing the supply of fuel for ambulances to transport patients and diesel for trucks that carry food across Cuba? How does imposing sanctions on officials and blocking commercial activities with Cuba make America great again? We demand answers to these and more pertinent questions about the US aggression and hostile behaviours towards Cuba and the Cuban people.
Since the revolution in 1959 Cuba has kicked out the mafia gangs and other foreign criminal adventurers out of that country. The Trump administration in Washington sees the US military intervention with the aim of implementing regime change in Havana as the best way to clear the path for recolonising Cuba. President Trump himself has intimated the international public that the US will intervene militarily in Cuba, overthrow the Cuban government, kill or kidnap Cuban leaders and baptise his Foreign Affairs Minister Marco Rubio, to lead the Caribbean nation as President and Commander-In-Chief. If the people of the United States could refuse to bow down to a king, why must the global community buy President Trump’s political miasma-to impose rogues and criminals on Cuba?
Cuba is an impoverished country with few natural resources but with the resourcefulness of its people and solidarity from friends it has made across the globe community, it has made giant strides in providing for human needs where the richest country in the history of the world falls miserably short. Cuba has wiped off illiteracy, which the United States has failed to do. Cuba transformed a system of healthcare for the rich before the revolution to a system of healthcare that equals to or surpasses most other countries. Cuba overcame homelessness, which today plagues the United States. Cuba has succeeded in tackling the scourge of systemic racism, which today plagues and corrupts the US.
With its offer of free medical education to students from Africa and even from the USA, Cuba has produced doctors that serve some of the most oppressed peoples around the world, including besieged Palestinians, and similarly shares its own physicians and health care workers where they are most needed through the Henry Reeves Brigade.
The New African Charter International (NACI) joins other peace and freedom-loving individuals and organizations in demanding:
1. An immediate end to the more than sixty (60) years economic and financial blockade, including the latest fuel blockade in all its forms;
2. An immediate end to the threats to invade Cuba with guarantees against such an act of terrorism against a sovereign independent state;
3. An immediate end to threats to kidnap Cuba’s revolutionary leaders;
4. Cessation of the malicious propaganda that denies Cuba’s rights to development and blames that country’s government for the effects of the criminal blockade;
5. Immediate withdrawal of the U.S. military from Cuba’s territory of Guantanamo Bay; and,
6. Full respect for the Cuban people’s right to self-determination, sovereignty and homeland dignity.
Long live Cuba-Africa solidarity!
Sender:
ALIMAMY BAKARR SANKOH
Co-president and founder
NACI
