Independent Experts and Special Rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council condemned on Thursday the unilateral coercive measures applied by the United States against Cuba, which they described as an attempt to alter the constitutional order of a sovereign state through threats and coercion, the multilateral body reported.
From Geneva, the experts called on the international community and civil society to act swiftly to prevent the establishment of a “silent Gaza” on the island as a result of U.S. hostility.
The imposed blockade means that energy, transportation, irrigation, and basic services are failing simultaneously, disproportionately affecting women, children, the elderly, and other vulnerable groups, they asserted.
The statement issued denies that Cuba poses a threat to the national security of the United States and hemispheric stability, as the State Department report published on July 20th, entitled “Cuba, the Capital of 21st-Century Communism,” attempts to portray.
Deliberately depriving a population of the means to survive violates the most basic guarantees of the right to life and undermines the very essence of human dignity, the experts acknowledged.
They also stated that it is the duty of the U.S. government to cease all threats and hostile acts against Cuba’s sovereignty and to revoke all measures it has imposed on the country, which they denounce as contrary to international law.
“The Security Council and the General Assembly should urgently address these threats as a matter of international peace and security,” they stressed.
The day before, the Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General confirmed that his organization is in contact with several countries to facilitate the supply of fuel to Cuba for humanitarian purposes.
According to Ernesto Soberón, Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the official also expressed concern about the humanitarian impact of this collective punishment imposed by the U.S. government against the Cuban people.

“In an act of brutality, the new U.S. government announces the imprisonment, at the Guantánamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied Cuban territory, of thousands of migrants that it is forcibly expelling, who will be placed next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention”.
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, wrote in X after learning that the Guantánamo Naval Base – which, in addition to being illegal, harbors unimaginable torture and violations of all kinds against human rights – will now also be a detention center for some 30,000 immigrants, as announced by President Donald Trump.
Although none of his controversial decisions have caused too much astonishment (coming from where they come from), it is still outrageous that he now intends to turn the territory -which, as the whole world knows, does not belong to them- into part of his strategy to remove from the United States thousands of people who have set foot in that country in search of the so-called American dream.
At the signing ceremony of the Laken Riley Act, Trump spoke about an executive order for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the facility for such purposes, without elaborating too much on the procedure by which the transfer will be executed.
Since his ascension, for the second time, to the presidential chair, the multimillionaire, known for his discriminatory anti-immigrant behavior, has taken the harshest measures in favor of a “cleansing”, which will have terrible consequences, even for unborn children.
In the midst of this context, the new announcement comes to light, which once again puts the Guantánamo Naval Base in the spotlight of international opinion. Many horrors have been committed there, from the kidnapping and murder of Cuban citizens, to serving as a crime and torture laboratory, under the justification of the war against terrorism. So far, the attempts, announcements and promises to close the prison located on the base have remained only in words and, evidently, it will not be now that they will do it.
What is certain is that, under the political-electoral pretext of a “cleansing of illegal people who have invaded the soil that does not belong to them”, the champions of “freedom and human rights” have found a way out of the crisis they are creating for themselves, by transferring thousands of their deportees to that corner of Cuban land that the U.S. has usurped, in its shameless condition as an “illegal foreign government that has invaded the soil that does not belong to it”.