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The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) published a message this Sunday on its official X account stating that the United States seeks to restore "a failed Cuba", directly referring to the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and that the current embargo and military threats serve this purpose.
The tweet arrives amid escalating tensions between Havana and Washington that intensified on May 1, when President Donald Trump threatened to send the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to Cuban shores and signed a new executive order tightening sanctions against the Island in the areas of energy, defense, mining, and financial services.
In its publication, the PCC evokes the Batista era to build its argument: it asserts that during his nearly seven years in power, the regime manipulated over three billion pesos obtained from collections and public securities issuances, and that the dictator had a network of frontmen, intermediaries, accomplices, partners, and lawyers to conceal his interests in approximately 70 companies.
The single-party system also points directly at Washington: "The U.S. government never concealed its support for the Batista regime. It shielded itself behind a convenient neutrality whenever the constant violation of human rights by the dictator and his gang was invoked, and it carried out significant arms deliveries to the dictatorship."
The message concludes with a statement that equates the current pressure from the U.S. with that historical support: "That was the Cuba that failed: the one that yielded to Yankee designs, that resorted to torture and servitude, that prioritized a few and the desires of the Empire over the needs of the people. It is to return to that that they block us today and threaten to attack us militarily."
The tweet is the latest piece of a propaganda campaign that the regime has been maintaining since early May. On the 2nd of that month, Díaz-Canel responded to Trump with the slogan "No aggressor, no matter how powerful, will find surrender in Cuba," and the following day warned delegates from 36 countries about the "imminence of a military aggression" and invoked the doctrine of the "War of All the People."
The chancellor Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla characterized Trump's words as a "new clear and direct threat of military aggression," while the Cuban ambassador to the UN, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, stated that words like "surrender" or "capitulate" do not exist in the Cuban vocabulary.
This narrative contrasts with the reality experienced by the population. Economist Pedro Monreal warned that the contraction of Cuba's GDP could reach 15% in 2026, matching the worst year of the Special Period, while CEPAL forecasts a decline of 6.5%, the most severe in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Since January 2026, the Trump administration has accumulated more than 240 sanctions against Cuba, including Executive Order 14380 from January 29, which declared the Island a threat to U.S. national security and imposed an energy embargo.
The PCC concluded its publication with the hashtags #CubaEstáFirme and #LaPatriaSeDefiende, while large areas of the country are experiencing daily power outages of up to 25 hours and a widespread shortage that critics of the regime attribute to more than six decades of policies by the communist government itself.
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