U.S. conducts calculated crime against humanity by its ongoing sanctions and oil blockade of Cuba---a humanitarian crisis!

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Date: July 16, 2026

By Brian Patrick Moore

A Miami Herald article by Claire Heddles and Syra Blanes," and reprinted in the Tampa Bay Times (July 13, 2026) titled "Many Young Miami Cubans disagree with their abuelas [grandparents] about politics," perfectly highlights a growing generational shift, but we must urgently look beyond election dynamics and address the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe on the island.

The U.S. government’s escalating oil blockade against Cuba, which has now triggered multiple catastrophic islandwide blackouts, is not a strategic foreign policy move—it is a calculated crime against humanity.

Ten million people have been trapped in darkness, public transportation is paralyzed, and tens of thousands of lifesaving surgeries have been canceled. This is the direct result of a deliberate U.S. campaign of collective punishment designed to strangle a nation’s vital infrastructure.

Washington cynically claims its sanctions target a regime, but the actual casualties are ordinary Cuban citizens, patients in unlit hospitals, and children going hungry.

While young Cuban-Americans in South Florida are rightfully questioning outdated political stances, the broader, deafening silence from the Cuban-American community regarding this immediate suffering is unacceptable. Where is their voice against this blatant inhumanity? Has President Trump intimidated them?

As Florida residents, we cannot remain silent while atrocities are carried out in our name just 90 miles from our shores. The administration must immediately lift these illegal fuel sanctions.

True values do not include starving our neighbors into submission.

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