Since January, the United States has been escalating oppressive economic sanctions in an attempt to strike down Cuba’s seven decades of independence from American imperialism. Solidarity activists are urging for more material and moral support.

The Trump administration issued an executive order in January to impose a blockade on Cuba’s oil imports in late January, right after the invasion of Venezuela and the illegal abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, which cut off the main fuel supplier to Cuba. The oil siege started a months-long struggle to avoid total economic and governmental collapse.