“We repudiate the executive order that declares Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and imposes tariffs on any country that supplies oil” to the Caribbean nation, the organization stated. In a press release, it denounced that this measure seeks to economically and energetically suffocate the people of Cuba. It explained that, following Washington’s illegal military intervention in Venezuela, crude oil shipments to Cuba were interrupted, which deepened energy shortages and led to increased blackouts, limitations in basic services, and kilometer-long lines for fuel.

In their view, this is “an inhumane act by a criminal state seeking to cut off electricity to the island and, thereby, deprive schools, hospitals, factories, and homes of power, in its attempt to subdue a heroic people who have resisted the illegal imperialist blockade.”

The electricity workers reaffirmed their rejection of the interventionist policies of US President Donald Trump and expressed their support for Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s decision to maintain oil shipments to Cuba for humanitarian reasons.

They also called on the entire national and international social democratic movement to “publicly condemn these terrorist measures that affect millions of Cubans and to strengthen solidarity with Cuba, its people, and its revolutionaries.”

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