What is happening in Cuba today can only be understood on January 3, 2026. The reason Nicolás Maduro disabled the Cuban survival system. For more than two decades, Havana has externalized its energy, its liquidity and some of its stability in Caracas.
Venezuelan oil was not apoyo, according to the conditions of the mode option.
The connection was organic. The presence of Cuban security teams in Maduro’s personal guard at the time emphasized that the two systems were one.
For this reason, the island was precipitated into an immediate structural crisis: what was systemic (apagone, shadow, misery, paralysis) was brought to collapse with the persistence of politics Donald Trump.
It is a consequence of the dictatorial model of one party and extreme influence that has lost external support.
Russia accompanies you, but does not support you. His promises of turnaround (limited, abandoned, uncertain) contrast with his inability to replace the energy and financial paper that has left Venezuela.
Moscow is still present, but it is not decisive.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Here it is, what’s more, it’s China, and not behind the rhetoric, but after the people. It is Cuba’s largest commercial partner and the external actor with the greatest ability to influence.
After investing $8,000 million in seeking financial support over the past few decades, China has turned into its main economic partner. de factothanks to a triple turnover in critical infrastructures such as the port of Santiago, in energy with hundreds of solar projects and in technology and communications management through Huawei or ZTE.
Above all, the use of installations in Cuba depends on intelligence and follow-up capabilities.
And all this accompanied by explicit political coverage. China reacts to what it calls “external influences” on Cuba cementing an alliance that combines ideological affinity and strategic opportunity.
As the process progresses, Europe targets Spain and Spain abstains. Primarily not because of bad tools, but because of a bad decision.
Spain has a direct and massive economic presence on the island.
Large hotel groups such as Meliá, Iberostar or NH are structural actors in Cuban tourism. It conducts political dialogue, historical issues and the growing diaspora.
Yes, without an embargo, this weight does not translate into influence. Our government’s policy has been reduced to managing inconveniences: here a little humanitarian aid, there a large dose of rhetorical prudence.
The Road of Kings in 2019 was an expression of this logic: disinterested and absent in leadership, forced presence unlimited.
A Cuban man watches a list of products in a store in Havana, Cuba.
EFE
But the Cuban reality challenges us and demands even more, because Cuba is not just a regime in crisis: it is a society that resists. And this society needs even more compassion. Aliados is required.
The Sajarov Prize has been awarded three times by Cuban citizens: in 2002 it was awarded Oswaldo Payafailed in 2012 under circumstances that have not been clarified; White women were honored in 2005; y Guillermo Fariñas I got it in 2010.
A legacy that embodies today Rosa Maria Payá, Jose Daniel Ferrer or Yunior Garcia Aguilera and the generation that took to the streets in 2021.
It’s also the diaspora that continues to connect with Spain and that dictates much of American policy on the island from Miami.
I always say that Sajarov is more than the price. It is a tool of political activism that must serve to strengthen the luchadors of freedom and democracy.
For this to happen, a compromise between European institutions and national governments is necessary. Frankly, it must be a duty of the utmost importance for a ruler.
Need Pedro Sánchez He ignored his cases in the first year of the administration, which he inaugurated with his official visit to Cuba, the first in three decades.
Sánchez reunited on the sea of dreams with Díaz-CanelHowever, he did not give a single second to civil society opposition, ignoring a resolution passed by the European Parliament on his concerns about human rights in Cuba in connection with the change in the Common Position.
Between the presence of the United States, the strategic penetration of China, and the control of its own system, Cuba is now at the center of a table where Spain could be more than a spectator.
From his paper in the European Union, he could formulate his own position, seek reforms, balance forces, lead in Ibero-America. Signatures against external asphyxiation, signatures also facing internal repression.
You can use your economic weight to adjust the changes. It could give visibility and support to those who live their lives to open the space of freedom.
You could use the next Ibero-American Cumbre to express a common response that is neither smug nor cynical.
In the end, we could stand on top of what he says (and must).
Because the historical connection between Spain and Cuba is real and deep. We are family. Let the family always take care of it. So hooray Felipe Gonzalez invited to Fidel Castro to Spain to visit my family in Lugo!
For this reason our government would tend to abandon the policy of violence before autocrats and tyrants. Because the worst foreign policy is not one that is ambiguous, but one that avoids making decisions.
This hides the limits of impossible balance while reality fades away.
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