"Trump is manufacturing consent for the invasion of Cuba."

The indictment is set to coincide with a Justice Department ceremony at Miami’s Freedom Tower on Cuban Independence Day — a piece of political theatre calibrated to one audience only: the Miami exile lobby that has spent decades pursuing its commercial and ideological vendetta against the Cuban Revolution.

U.S. officials themselves acknowledge they do not believe Cuba is an imminent threat, nor actively planning to attack American interests — and yet in the same breath, the administration has laundered a set of alarming claims about Cuban drone acquisitions, presented with all the breathless urgency of a casus belli.

The Trump administration has openly called for replacing Cuba’s government — and every element of this week’s escalation serves that objective, from the CIA director’s visit to Havana to the imposition of new sanctions.

We have seen this playbook before — in Iraq, in Libya, in Venezuela, and in other sites of manufactured consent for illegal war across the world. The Progressive International will not stand silent as it is deployed against Cuba.

We call on governments, movements, and peoples of conscience everywhere to call out this escalation for what it is — a naked effort to recolonize Cuba and the hemisphere at large — and to stand firmly against it.

Hands off Cuba.

Photo: Miguel Díaz-Canel/X