The Lies of Trump and the Power of Words in the Face of the Executive Order
On January 29, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, issued an Executive Order with the outrageous title: Addressing the Threats to the United States Posed by the Government of Cuba.
The text of this document, as noted in the preamble, is based on the Constitution of the United States of America, as well as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code. An obvious and necessary observation is that it is signed under the laws of another government that has not been legitimized by the Cuban people, yet its application impacts the fate of our nation.
The document follows a cyclical rhetoric about "the danger that Cuba represents to the United States."
These legal headings are embedded throughout the document as narratives aimed at legitimizing the orders that the White House occupant has given (revealed at the end of the document) to the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is tasked with implementing it in all its devilish complexity. A statement from Donald Trump emerges as one of his latest delusions: he announced himself as the future "President of Cuba."
In Section 1, Addressing the Threats…, in its first part, it declares:
“As President of the United States, I have an imperative duty to protect the national security and foreign policy of this country. I find that the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat, originating wholly or substantially outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
This assertion lacks foundation and does not provide documentary evidence to legitimize such a claim. It is not even accompanied by any annex that might “illustrate” — if such a word applies — the statements made by the President of the United States. What is apparent, as has become usual in President Trump’s rhetoric, is the casting of empty accusations before the public opinion of the United States and the world, which only serve to create an atmosphere of opinion that certain countries and governments “are a danger to the northern nation.”
Elsewhere in Section 1 of this Executive Order, a clear interference by the President of the United States in the foreign policy of the Cuban government is evident, outlining labels and adjectives that seek to undermine the island’s right to have relations with other states and governments recognized by the United Nations. In this sum of "reasons," he mixes, like a bomb-maker of hollow words, the terms: “hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors adversarial to the United States.”
The Government of Cuba has taken extraordinary measures that harm and threaten the United States. The regime collaborates with numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors adversarial to the United States, including the Government of the Russian Federation (Russia), the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Government of Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, to which it provides support. For example, Cuba openly hosts dangerous adversaries of the United States, inviting them to establish sophisticated military and intelligence capabilities on its territory that directly threaten the national security of the United States.
It should be noted that in the last third of this section, Donald Trump states:
“Cuba houses Russia’s largest electronic intelligence facility abroad, which attempts to steal sensitive information regarding the national security of the United States. Cuba continues to develop deep cooperation in intelligence and defense matters with the People's Republic of China.”
Once again, the United States government spreads lies straight from the manuals of U.S. intelligence agencies. This is part of a historic strategy aimed at justifying broader actions. Its rhetoric has been characterized by intervening in the internal affairs of other nations, even resorting to military interventions in the name of “freedom and democracy.”
How many military bases of the northern country are located outside the United States? According to various sources, it is estimated that between 750 and 800 operate across the five continents. This assertion implies not only blatant lying but also a certain dementia regarding issues that are handled by U.S. geopolitical commentators and scholars.
Within the body of this Section 1, titled: Addressing Threats Against the United States by the Government of Cuba, other nonsense is recycled to once again cement rhetoric of deception, without the slightest sign of shame and without presenting documentary evidence.
“Cuba hosts transnational terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, creating a safe environment for these malign groups so that they may establish economic, cultural, and security ties throughout the region and attempt to destabilize the Western Hemisphere, including the United States. Cuba has long provided defense, intelligence, and security assistance to adversaries of the Western Hemisphere in order to frustrate international and U.S. sanctions aimed at ensuring regional stability, upholding the rule of law, and safeguarding the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Cuba continues to attempt to thwart U.S. efforts to address threats posed to you by hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors, even within the Western Hemisphere.”
Regarding this "chapter" of the Executive Order, the position of the Cuban people and government in defending the sovereignty of the Palestinian cause is public: it is the right to exist as a nation that this rebellious and insubordinate island defends.
In the past two years, the genocidal practices of the Israeli state against the Palestinian people have increased. According to Gaza health authorities, the new escalation, resulting from bombings carried out by the Israeli military on the Palestinian enclave, has left 71,667 dead and 171,343 injured.
This number signifies pain and loss of human lives. The United States government is co-responsible for this barbarity, as are several nations of the European Union. This group of countries has supplied, and continues to supply, military equipment that snuffs out the lives of that dignified people.
The arguments of the Executive Order issued on January 29 by the President of the United States maintain their line of coarse, mendacious, and slanderous messages. It is the “logic” that defines the scenarios staged by Donald Trump, anchored in a strategy that breaks with all discursive logics.
The repertoire that makes up this Section 1 reveals the desperation of the occupant of the White House, in the face of the probable consequences that the evolution of Jeffrey Epstein's files could bring him. The American people's repudiation of paramilitary practices employed by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against immigrants—where two U.S. citizens were killed—is part of Donald Trump’s concerns. What the document affirms is simply and plainly ridiculous, filled with crude narratives and printed with massive falsehoods:
On the other hand, contrary to the interests and foreign policy of the United States, the Cuban communist regime supports terrorism and destabilizes the region through migration and violence. The communist regime persecutes and tortures its political opponents; denies the Cuban people freedom of expression and of the press; corruptly profits from their misery; and commits other human rights violations. For example, the families of political prisoners face reprisals for peacefully protesting the wrongful imprisonment of their loved ones. Cuban authorities harass the faithful, block the free association of civil society organizations, prohibit freedom of the press, and deny the possibility of expressing themselves freely, even on the Internet. The Cuban regime continues to spread its communist ideas, policies, and practices throughout the Western Hemisphere, posing a threat to the foreign policy of the United States.
Let's remember that in these 67 years of Revolution, 3,478 compatriots have lost their lives and 2,099 have been disabled by state terrorism organized, financed, and executed from the territory of the United States. The 32 fallen fighters in Venezuela on January 3rd, fulfilling their duty to safeguard the lives of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, mark a new chapter of the terrorism promoted by the U.S. government against the Cuban people. The response of these 32 men of honor brings us pain and strengthens the unity among Cubans.
What they call opposition should be translated as mercenaries serving a foreign power, which is classified as such under Cuban law, as well as under the laws of the United States and Western countries. They are mercenaries serving reactionary agencies and media outlets that aim to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. Our people and government have the legitimate right to defend themselves against any aggression, no matter where it comes from.
The narrative of alleged torture in Cuban prisons is a recurring argument from spokespersons of the White House. On this matter, it should be noted that torture has indeed occurred at the Guantanamo Naval Base, which is illegally occupied by the United States against the will of the Cuban people and government. None of the political authorities responsible for these execrable acts, which are well documented, have been prosecuted under U.S. law.
The Cuban nation is strengthened by a body of organizations that are part of a robust civil society. They represent the interests of broad sectors of the nation. The number, actions, and objectives characterizing each of these organizations reflect the sovereign will of their members, backed by the Cuban Constitution and further strengthened by a sovereign act in 2019.
Every country has the right to spread its ideas anywhere in the world, respecting the laws of the nations that welcome this right to express ourselves to defend our social model.
The narrative of this document continues to unravel lies, without providing even a single line that supports the arithmetic of their “evidence” contained in the main body of the Executive Order. The theses we share below illustrate how they repeat old “arguments” filled with cynicism.
I consider that the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba directly threaten the security, national security, and foreign policy of the United States. The policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba are designed to harm the United States and support hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors seeking to destroy them. The policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba also contradict the moral and political values of free and democratic societies, and conflict with the United States’ foreign policy of promoting peaceful change in Cuba and fostering democracy, freedom of expression and the press, the rule of law, and respect for human rights worldwide.
President Trump learned from his advisors the well-known Nazi strategy created by Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler’s main collaborators: “a lie told a thousand times becomes a great truth.”
Cuba is not a threat, neither to the United States nor to any other nation in the world. The Proclamation to make Latin America and the Caribbean a zone of peace, signed in January 2014, was promoted by the then President of Cuba, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz.
Everything expressed in this section of the document reeks of empty words, drenched in filthy adjectives that only aim to generate an opinion about our island that would only resonate in ignorant minds and the mercenaries of Miami, who seek to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
The rest of the sections that make up this Executive Order can be summarized in this paragraph:
To address the national emergency declared in this order, I consider it necessary and appropriate to establish a tariff system, as described below. Under this system, an additional ad valorem duty may be imposed on imports of merchandise originating from a foreign country that sells or supplies, directly or indirectly, oil to Cuba.
In essence, any nation that supplies oil to Cuba will be penalized with the well-known practice of tariff increases, one of the coercive policy weapons that characterizes the administration of Donald Trump. This measure reveals itself as a clear interference in the sovereignty of nations that trade with Cuba, and on the other hand, it acts as another tightening of the screw to suffocate the Cuban people, seeking internal unrest and destabilization, waiting to sow “pretexts” for an already announced military intervention on the Island.
With these considerations, the Union of Cuban Journalists categorically rejects the perverse actions that the administration of Donald Trump intends to implement against our people. As our José Martí said: “To those who think Cubans lack the courage and ability to live on the land created by their valor, we say: They lie.”
Havana, January 31, 2026.
