loading . . . Cuba: The Power of Global Solidarity will Defeat the Blockade. Take Action, NOW! _Today, on the 17th of May, with Cuban peasants, La VĂa Campesina is launching the Global Solidarity Campaign: âAgainst the Blockade! Peasant Solidarity, Agroecology, and Food Sovereignty!â_
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**Cuba is in the grip of a punishing blockade imposed by the United States for over 60 years.**
We, La VĂa Campesina â a global movement spanning over 80 countries â and bringing together peasants, fishers, land workers and small-scale food producers who feed the world, hold this unilateral sanction as the direct cause of the Cuban food and energy crisis.
It has affected electricity generation, transport, healthcare and food distribution. Now, Washington is tightening the screws once again, with the aim of destroying Cubaâs revolutionary project, subjugating its people through hunger, medicine shortages and the disruption of daily life.
Cuba has given the world far more than it has received: doctors in the most remote corners of the globe, life-saving vaccines, literacy brigades that taught millions of people to read, inspiration and support for cooperative organization, the widespread adoption of agroecology and, in all of this, growing solidarity and humanist internationalism to build a fairer and more sustainable world. Now, as the U.S attempts to collectively punish an entire nation for refusing to bow down, it is up to us to repay that solidarity with strength and determination. La VĂa Campesina, firmly stands with Small Farmers National Association (ANAP) â LVCâs member organization in Cuba â
in all its efforts to fight this blockade and build food sovereignty.
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**And today, the 17th of May, which marks the Cuban Peasantry Day and the Anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform in Cuba, we launch the global campaign:_âAgainst the Blockade! Peasant Solidarity, Agroecology, and Food Sovereignty!â_**
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The campaign seeks to organize a global fundraising effort to cover basic needs that stimulate agri-food production and to mobilize people â including LVC member organizations and allies â to continue denouncing the impact of the blockade and its intensification, and also uplift the Cuban spirit with messages of solidarity.
As José Martà so aptly put it: Love is repaid with love.
# GLOBAL FUND RAISER
Over the next few months, La Via Campesina, through the power of transnational solidarity and relying on the strength of its 180 member organizations and countless allies intends to raise **250,000 Euros** to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba. Through a mix of local fundraiser events â hosted and organized by our member organizations and allies â and other means, we will make a concerted effort to raise these funds that can buy essential supplies for the peasants and workers in Cuba.
Of these, we wish to raise at least **100,000 Euros** from our online crowd funding campaign alone.
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# SOLIDARITY EVENTS
The mainstream narrative around Cuba rarely mentions how the so-called crisis in Cuba is entirely manfucatured in and by Washington, and is a direct cause of the punitive social, political, economic blockade placed by the U.S on the Cuban people. It is important that as people who feed the world, and as a movement committed to building internationalism and global solidarity, we expose the brutal impact of this punishing sanction.
It is important that we do this by organizing press conferences, solidarity marches, events, webinars, seminars within our communities and in our region, highlighting the voices of Cubaâs peasantry and the ANAP.
Adapt and promote the campaignâs **COMMUNICATION KIT.** We invite you to share the local actions you are carrying out in support of the campaign, including videos, photos, articles, statements, and other initiatives. These will be featured on LVCâs official media channels. Contact us at: **[email protected]**
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## **Against the blockade: Peasant Solidarity, Agroecology and Food sovereignty!**
THE BLOCKADE IS NOT JUST A PROBLEM FOR CUBA.
It is a warning to all countries attempting to escape neoliberal exploitation and the capitalist system in order to pursue a dignified and sovereign project for the benefit of their peoples. If the empire intends to crush Cuba through slow starvation, it will do so at the expense of the collectives and individuals who believe that another world is possible.
This is a call to break the blockade through material aid, political pressure and international solidarity. Together we can show that the power of the people continues to triumph over injustice, corporate and imperialist actions.
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#SolidarityWithCuba #PeasantSolidarityWithCuba #SolidaritéPaysanneAvecCuba #CubaYES_EmbargoNO #LaViaCampesina #ANAPCuba
**Globalize the Struggle! Globalize Hope!**
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This post is also available in Español and Français. https://viacampesina.org/en/cuba-solidarity-2026/
