Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Feb 6.- We live in an era of global tensions where conflicts have transcended traditional battlefields. Today, the dispute is being waged on two main fronts: the control of economic resources -through subjugation and suffocation- and, even more decisively, the field of ideas. The latter seeks to colonize people's minds, sowing fear, hopelessness, and nullifying logical reasoning until truth is confused with lies. The objective is clear: whoever controls an individual's thinking, controls them completely.
This scenario is not new. Already on November 17, 2005, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz warned about these strategies in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana. Two decades later, the U.S. administration has taken a dangerous step: the recent Executive Order signed on January 29, 2026, which declares a "National Emergency" and imposes sanctions on any country that provides oil to Cuba. This measure is not an isolated event; it is the tip of an iceberg designed to escalate aggression against the island.
The pretexts put forward -that Cuba constitutes a malign threat, promotes destabilization, or maintains hostile international ties- are baseless. The U.S. security establishment itself knows that Cuba does not represent a danger to its national security. Its army is defensive, its foreign policy is based on multilateralism and solidarity, and it has never promoted aggressive actions against the United States. If there were real evidence, it would have already been presented. The absence of evidence exposes the falseness of these accusations.
What does exist is a reinforced economic blockade, an undeclared war that seeks the slow extermination of a people. As Gandhi warned, economic war is prolonged torture, whose ravages are just as terrible as those of an armed conflict. Today, children, the elderly, and the sick in Cuba suffer from shortages of medicines, medical equipment, and fuel due to these sanctions. It is, in essence, an act of genocide.
This Executive Order not only attacks Cuba but imposes on third countries how to relate to the island, violating their sovereignty. If allowed, it will set a dangerous precedent for the international order.
In the face of this, Cuba maintains its willingness to dialogue —always on equal terms— and its right to freely relate to other peoples. The majority of Cubans have endorsed in successive constitutional processes their political and social system, which today includes the recognition of private property and a process of economic updating, whose main obstacle is precisely the blockade.
The final battle, however, is not decided on the economic or military terrain, but in the mind. If we lose conviction, if we give in to fear or hopelessness, we will have lost everything. History shows that the path of surrender does not bring happiness, but humiliation and suffering. As Fidel warned, the worst enemy is not external, but internal doubt. Today, more than ever, victory depends on believing in our capacity to resist, create, and overcome. (Granma Digital) (Photo: Taken from Razones de Cuba)
