DSA's Excellent Cuban Adventure

Because the DSA knows who the real enemy is:

The Trump administration has escalated the decades-long embargo on Cuba, cutting off the island’s access to oil, choking its energy grid, and accelerating a humanitarian crisis for ten million people. This is a deliberate act of economic warfare. It is a siege.

We can’t stay silent in the face of this brazen imperialism.  DSA is fighting back. Together, we can stop this escalation, send material aid, and build a powerful legislative push to end the U.S. embargo.

They're joining the Nuestra America ("Our America") Convoy, a consortium of leftist NGOS looking to "break the blockade" by bringing...

...er, a token amount of supplies to Cuba.  

We are an international coalition of individuals and organisations dedicated to delivering critical humanitarian aid to the Cuban people. Cuba has been pushed to the point of imminent humanitarian "collapse", warns the United Nations. "Our guiding principles remain unchanged: To be present. To support. To act based on cooperation, respect for international law, and the UN values," said the organisation's most senior official in Cuba on 5 February. Drawing on these principles, the Nuestra América Convoy aims to bring urgent relief to the Cuban people.

If it sounds like a Greta Thunberg project - you're catching on.  The public face of the organization is David Adler, one of the people who made the oh so successful Gaza flotillas such a beacon of, er, virtue signaling:

The Nuestra América Convoy, founded by an alumnus of the Gaza flotilla, is hoping to deliver (a relatively small number of) supplies while bringing global attention to the plight of the Cuban people. The convoy is scheduled to arrive in Cuba March 21st.

So has anyone asked actual Cubans what they think?

Of course not.  You can't. Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship.   To paraphrase the late great PJ O'Rourke, "Hello, citizen.  I'm from your secret police.   Would you like to be very careful what you say to this foreign journalist, or should I just rip up your ration card right here?"

But Cuban expats - the ones who've been fleeing their erstwhile paradise for Florida for the past 60-plus years - are not amused.   

From the expat site El Toque (translated from Spanish), which is a pretty forthright critic of the Communist government:

To this question is added a broader context about the nature of the Cuban crisis. Shortages, blackouts and deteriorating basic services are not recent or attributable exclusively to external conjunctures. The economic and social situation of the island has structural and systemic roots, as warned by independent experts. Human rights organizations have also documented the crackdown on critical voices from the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), with sub-records of hundreds of political prisoners. And in the last five years, the country has experienced the largest migration exodus in its contemporary history, an indicator that different specialists interpret as a symptom of a multidimensional crisis that transcends the debate on sanctions.

In that scenario, the flotilla « Nuestra América », whose name refers to the essay of the Cuban Apostle José Martí, is presented mainly as a response to the specific decisions of Washington’s foreign policy on Havana. However, critics point out that this framing leaves in the background the analyses attributed to the crisis, to a large extent, to the internal political and economic structure of the country. 

The TL:dr version - pretending that Cuba would be an actual workers' paradise if it weren't for those darned sanctions is wishful, even magical, thinking.   

Which brings us full circle.  The DSA and the Thunberg Mafia are involved.  

Now - what kind of reception are they going to get, not from their Marxist brethren in the government, but from actual Cubans?

WATCH: Cubans set fire to Communist Party headquarters in Morón, Ciego de Ávila pic.twitter.com/qnU8In2u99

— Rapid Report (@RapidReport2025) March 14, 2026

Now, for this, I'll pop some popcorn.