Where is Lula da Silva?: The President of Brazil has not commented on the United States' measures towards Cuba

Brazil spoke, but not Lula. While parties and organizations aligned with the Brazilian government issued strong condemnations of the new executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva remains silent.

Washington has made it clear that it considers Cuba a "national security threat" and, for this reason, has planned sanctions against countries that supply fuel to the island, but silence reigns in the Palácio do Planalto.

In a recent statement, the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), a historical partner of the Workers' Party (PT), condemned what it termed "economic genocide" and "imperialist policy of collective punishment."

In an overtly ideological tone, the organization called on its members to "intensify actions of denunciation and active solidarity with the Cuban people," resurrecting the lexicon of the Cold War years.

The Brazilian Center for Friendship with the Peoples (Cebrapaz) and the PT itself joined that line, stating there is an “open economic war against the island” and accusing Washington of “wanting to completely suffocate the Cuban economy and prevent the arrival of fuels.”

The PT's statement even included a phrase that few expected to read in 2026: "We will continue to defend the Cuban people, their Revolution, and their ideals of social justice."

However, neither Lula nor his chancellor Mauro Vieira have commented on Trump's executive order and have scarcely spoken about the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, despite the increasing U.S. pressure on the historical allies of the Bolivarian axis.

The silence of the Brazilian president contrasts with the heated tone of his party environment and highlights Brazil's uncomfortable position in the new regional landscape: caught between its leftist rhetoric and the reality of a Latin America aligned with Washington under the Donroe doctrine promoted by Marco Rubio.

While Lula weighs each word carefully, the old defenders of Castroism speak on his behalf—as if time had not passed and the so-called "revolution" remained alive, even though it has long ceased to convince in Brazil and Havana.

And that grotesque silence is all that the Cuban regime's foreign ministry can showcase on its website: merely the echo of what once were the kisses and embraces of Lula with the dictator he so admired... and that now he does not remember.