Printed On 1 Could 2026
Cuban electrical and petroleum employees have marched in Havana to have fun International Workers’ Day, or Could Day, as the federal government pledges to stand firm in opposition to rising US stress which is additional straining the economic system.
Ninety-four-year-old former chief Raul Castro and President Miguel Diaz-Canel took half within the celebrations within the capital on Friday, whereas the administration of US President Donald Trump introduced additional sanctions.
A White Home assertion stated the sanctions would goal these concerned within the safety providers, together with “materials supporters of the Cuban authorities”. The assertion added, with out proof, that the Caribbean island serves as a “secure haven for transnational terrorist teams” such because the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
A US vitality blockade has already battered the nation’s struggling economic system and contributed to widespread energy blackouts.
“We live by troublesome occasions,” stated Yunier Merino Reyes, an accountant with the Electrical Union who joined Friday’s march to have fun his colleagues. “We’re finishing up a really powerful, arduous and relentless effort — day and night time — to offer electrical energy to the individuals who want it,” he instructed the Related Press.
The Trump administration has incessantly threatened Cuba with army assaults along with higher financial stress.
“Right this moment Cuba demonstrated as soon as once more that this individuals doesn’t hand over, and that we’ll defend our homeland tooth and nail, despite the fact that we wish peace,” Milagros Morales, a 34-year-old Havana resident who took half within the march, instructed Reuters.
