By Dayán González Ramírez
July 30, 2026 CubaSí
More than 7,000 containers bound for Cuba are in nearby ports, due to the refusal of several shipping companies to arrive at Cuban ports as a result of the executive orders of the U.S. government
For several days, various media and social networks have been circulating complaints about the retention in Caribbean ports of containers with medical supplies for Cuba, many of them the result of the management of several solidarity organizations.
But, as if this were not enough, on the first day of the Seventh Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power it was reported that the situation is much more complex.
During the speech of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, it was specified that more than seven thousand containers destined for Cuba are in nearby ports, due to the refusal of several shipping companies to arrive at Cuban ports as a result of the executive orders of the U.S. government, which have intensified the blockade in order to cut off all the country’s income and depress the economy and quality of life of Cuban men and women.
These containers not only contain raw materials and goods for the functioning of the economy; They include basic medicines, today in short supply due to the empire’s multidimensional war, along with food and parts that guarantee the recovery program of the national electricity system.
Those who have taken measures to delay their arrival know this very well and they do so consciously, because that is the objective: to deprive the Cuban people of everything.
Added to this is the energy siege that has prevented the arrival of fuels to the country; So far this year, only one ship with this vital resource has docked in Cuban roadsteads.
If in global numbers it is outrageous that legally acquired goods are being withheld, it is even more painful to know that each medicine that is delayed in arriving can make the difference between the life and death of thousands of people.
Cuba’s geographical reality necessarily makes it dependent on maritime trade, and sanctioning, intimidating and attacking shipping companies that trade with the island is, quite simply, genocide.
Translation: Irais Garcia Portelles
