Group calls for Caribbean solidarity amid US threats to Cuba

The Barbados-Cuba Friendship Association has condemned what it describes as aggressive actions by the United States against Cuba and has called for regional solidarity and protest.

In a statement issued on Sunday, association president David Denny said Caribbean people should be deeply concerned about what he characterised as escalating threats directed at the region.

He said the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, along with the Barbados Cuba Friendship Association, strongly opposes the actions and is calling on people across the region to organise protests outside US embassies throughout the Caribbean.

Denny also urged Barbadians to stand in solidarity with the people and government of Cuba and to demand that the Caribbean continues to be recognised as a zone of peace.

His comments come amid heightened rhetoric from US President Donald Trump, who recently claimed the United States would be “taking over” Cuba “almost immediately”.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz‑Canel responded on Saturday, warning that the threats of military aggression against Cuba had reached what he described as a “dangerous and unprecedented level”.