Why is the United States treating tiny Cuba with such extraordinary cruelty? After decades of an economic embargo, many Cubans endure severe blackouts, food shortages, and the heartbreaking necessity of throwing away precious food because electricity is unavailable to preserve it.
How can a small island struggling to keep the lights on be considered a serious threat to the world's most powerful nation? Meanwhile, the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay enjoys uninterrupted electricity only miles away.
Policies that deepen the suffering of ordinary families are neither compassionate nor worthy of a nation that claims to champion human rights. As Marco Rubio intensifies pressure against Cuba solidarity groups, organizations such as CodePink remind us that humanitarian concern should never be silenced by intimidation.
Surely Jesus and Pope Leo XIV would weep at the needless suffering imposed on innocent people. It is time to replace punishment with compassion, dialogue, and respect for human dignity.
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