02/19/2026
OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD: FROM CUBA, AN ORDINARY WOMAN DENOUNCES THE CRIME THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE
To all of humanity, to the mothers of the world, to Doctors Without Borders, to journalists with dignity, to governments that still believe in justice:
My name is like millions of others. I have no famous surname or important position. I am an ordinary Cuban woman. A daughter, a sister, a patriot. And I write this with a broken heart and trembling hands, because what my people are experiencing today is not a crisis. It is a slow, calculated murder, coldly executed from Washington.
And the world looks the other way.
DENUNCIATION ON BEHALF OF MY GRANDPARENTS:
I denounce that in Cuba there are elderly people who die prematurely because the blockade prevents medicines for heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes from reaching them. It is not a lack of resources. It is deliberate prohibition. Companies that want to sell to Cuba are fined, persecuted, threatened. Their governments remain silent. And meanwhile, a Cuban grandfather clutches his chest and waits. Death gives no warning. The blockade does.
DENUNCIATION ON BEHALF OF MY CHILDREN:
I denounce that there are incubators in Cuba that have had to be turned off due to lack of fuel. That there are newborns fighting for their lives while the U.S. government decides which countries can sell us oil and which cannot. That there are Cuban mothers who have seen their children's lives endangered because an order signed in an office in Washington is worth more than the cry of a baby 90 miles from its shores.
Where is the international community? Where are the organizations that defend children so much? Or is it that Cuban children do not deserve to live?
DENUNCIATION OF INTENTIONAL HUNGER:
I denounce that the blockade is programmed hunger. It is not that there is a lack of food for no reason. It is that they prevent us from buying it. It's because ships carrying food are being pursued. It's because bank transactions are being blocked. It's because the companies that sell us grain, chicken, and milk are being sanctioned.
Hunger in Cuba is not an accident. It is a policy of the United States government, refined over 60 years, updated by each administration, intensified by Donald Trump, and ruthlessly executed by Marco Rubio.
They call this “economic pressure.” I call it terrorism by starvation.
DENUNCIATION BY MY DOCTORS:
I denounce that our doctors, the same ones who saved lives during the pandemic while the whole world was collapsing, today have no syringes, no anesthesia, no X-ray equipment. Not because we don't know how to produce them. Not because we don't have the talent. But because the blockade prevents us from accessing supplies, spare parts, and technology.
Our scientists created five vaccines against COVID-19. Five. Without anyone's help. Against all odds. Against the blockade and lies. And yet, the empire punishes us for having achieved this.
TO THE WORLD I SAY:
Cuba is not asking you for charity.
Cuba is not asking you for soldiers.
Cuba is not asking you to love us.
Cuba is asking you for justice. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I ask you to stop normalizing the suffering of my people.
I ask you to call the blockade what it is: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
I ask you not to be fooled by the tale of “dialogue” and “democracy” while they squeeze our necks.
We don't want charity. We want them to LET US LIVE.
To the complicit governments that remain silent:
History will take its toll on you.
To the media that lies:
The truth always finds cracks.
To the executioners who sign sanctions:
The Cuban people do not forget and do not forgive.
To those who still have humanity in their hearts:
Look at Cuba. Look at what they are doing to it. And ask yourselves: Which side of history do I want to be on?
From this small island, with a giant people,
An ordinary Cuban woman who refuses to give up.
IF THIS TEXT MOVED YOU INSIDE, SHARE IT.
I don't care if you have 10 friends or 10,000 followers.
I don't care if your wall is public or private.
I don't care if you never share anything.
But this is different.
This is not a photo of a sunset.
This is not entertainment news.
This is not just another opinion.
This is a CRY. And cries are not kept quiet. They are HEARD. They are REPEATED. They BECOME A CROWD.
Today I'm not asking you for a “like.”
I'm asking you to use your thumbs for something bigger than scrolling through your screen.
SHARE.
So that the world knows that there is no crisis in Cuba.
There is a CRIME.
So that mothers in other countries know that here there are babies fighting for their lives in incubators turned off because of the blockade.
So that grandparents in other countries know that here there are elderly people dying while waiting for medicines that Washington won't let in.
So that complicit governments feel ashamed.
So that the lying media have no escape.
So that the executioners know that WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.
One person sharing this will not change the world.
Thousands, millions, YES.
