03/26/2026
NAME Supports the Sovereignty of Cuba
The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) stands against any invasion or threat of action — military or otherwise — against any sovereign nation. Just as NAME honors the sovereignty of Canada, Greenland, Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine, NAME also stands strongly against the United States threatening to either militarily or otherwise take over the independent nation of Cuba.
U.S. President Donald Trump boldly declared this week he will “take” Cuba. He was quoted in The New York Times saying: “I think I can do anything I want with it.” This is 21st century imperialism and should be intolerable in an era of multiculturalism and shared global struggle for humanity. But it follows Trump’s usage of the U.S. military, including more than 40 U.S. military attacks on boats resulting in at least 157 deaths in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean, without any evidence being presented or any convictions in a court of law.
Also in January, Trump used the U.S. military to attack Venezuela, and then capture and imprison its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. Trump on Feb. 28 launched the U.S. military attack on Iran with Israel, cementing the U.S. in yet another pointless war.
Though Cuba has been terribly weakened by more than 60 years of U.S. embargoes, the loss of Venezuelan oil supplies, and ongoing anti-Cuban policies, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has vowed “impregnable resistance” to the latest U.S. threat. “The US publicly threatens Cuba, almost daily, with overthrowing the constitutional order by force,” Díaz-Canel wrote on March 17. “And it uses an outrageous pretext: the harsh limitations of the weakened economy that they have attacked and sought to isolate for more than six decades.” It should be clear that the U.S. has continued to impoverish and punish Cuba, rather than support the sovereign development and infrastructure investment towards a socially just country.
Despite the false representations of Cuba, the island nation proudly welcomes tourists — including six delegations from the National Association for Multicultural Education from 2015 to 2019 — to its Bay of Pigs Museum in the Matanzas Province that describes in detail Cuban forces defeating U.S.-sponsored troops’ invasion of the island. Cuba has been prepared ever since for more U.S. acts of military aggression, even while
welcoming U.S. residents with open arms. Despite – or because of – Cubans warm welcome to global citizens, Trump told reporters on March 16 in the Oval Office that he will have the “honor” of taking over Cuba.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro engaged in groundbreaking renewal of diplomatic relations between the long-estranged nations in 2014. Peace between our countries, with shared humanity and free trade, should be the ultimate goal. Any 21st century act of imperialism by the United States should never be tolerated – particularly by U.S. residents who must model our commitment to global humanity by protesting the current federal regime’s proclivity to enact violence.
The countries of the world should follow the United Nations’ repeated annual vote, dating back to the 1960s condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba. If the embargo were to finally be lifted that would enable the Cuban government to modernize its infrastructures to better provide resources for its people and govern independently. NAME thus reminds those in the U.S. that we must step up to put pressure on the current federal regime; commitments to violence cannot and should not be tolerated. We cannot simultaneously advocate for multicultural education without also challenging state-led violence and war.
3.22.26
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