CARICOM Condemns US Actions on Cuba

The Caribbean Community’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) has issued a strong statement condemning the tightening of economic and trade restrictions on Cuba, warning that the measures are worsening hardship for ordinary Cubans and affecting Caribbean nationals studying and living there.

The council said the six-decade-long embargo has already hurt Cuban families and livelihoods, and that blocking fuel supplies has now triggered a humanitarian crisis. COFCOR reaffirmed Cuba’s right to import energy and called the obstruction ‘an unjustifiable violation of human rights and free trade’.

Leaders also raised alarm over recent talk of possible military action against Cuba, saying such aggression would destabilise the entire Caribbean and undermine efforts to preserve the region as a Zone of Peace.

“Cuba poses no threat to any nation,” the statement read.

While most CARICOM members backed the declaration, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago reserved their positions.