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The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC, by its Spanish acronym) warned that the country risks descending into social chaos and violence if\u00a0 increasingly urgent structural changes are not implemented.<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church\u2019s warning came in a message released on Jan. 31, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose extraordinary tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba.<\/p>\n

Venezuela had stopped exporting oil to Cuba in November 2025, and with the capture of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro by U.S. forces in January and the pressure on the socialist regime that is still in place, a resumption of these exports is unlikely.<\/p>\n

Russia and Algeria stopped sending fuel to the Cuban regime in October and February 2025, respectively, leaving Mexico as the only remaining supplier, with its last shipment arriving in early January.<\/p>\n

The fuel shortage is stifling the already struggling Cuban economy, and according to statements reported by the Financial Times<\/a>, <\/em>Victoria Grabenw\u00f6ger, an analyst at the market research firm Kpler, stated late last week that Cuba\u2019s remaining reserves \u201ccould last 15 to 20 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bishops recalled that in their June 15, 2025, message they had already called for \u201cthe structural, social, economic, and political changes that Cuba needs\u201d to save it from the dire situation it has been facing for several years.<\/p>\n

The prelates noted at the time that they did not imagine \u201cthat things could get any worse,\u201d yet, \u201cthe situation has deteriorated, and anguish and despair have intensified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, \u201crecent news, which announces, among other things, the elimination of any possibility of oil entering the country, is raising alarms, especially for the least fortunate. The risk of social chaos and violence among the sons and daughters of the same nation is real. No Cuban of goodwill would rejoice at this,\u201d the bishops said.<\/p>\n

The COCC stated that \u201cCuba needs changes, and they are becoming increasingly urgent, but it certainly doesn\u2019t need any more anguish or suffering\u201d for its people. The conference therefore expressed gratitude for the aid that arrived from the U.S. government<\/a> and was distributed through the Catholic Church to those affected by Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 30, the president of the COCC, Bishop Arturo Gonzalez Amador, and Cardinal Juan de la Caridad Garc\u00eda met with the head of mission at the U.S. Embassy, \u200b\u200bMike Hammer, who wrote on X that \u201cif everything goes well and the aid is reaching those most in need, the Trump administration is ready to send more assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

In their message, the bishops also addressed relations between states. \u201cThe unwavering position of the pope and the Holy See, consistent with international law, is that governments should be able to resolve their disagreements and conflicts through dialogue and diplomacy, not coercion or war,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n

However, they also said that \u201crespect for the dignity and exercise of freedom of every human being within their own nation cannot be subject to or conditioned by the variables of external conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bishops urged that \u201cthe good of Cuba be placed above partisan interests\u201d and assured that the Catholic Church will continue to accompany the people, especially the most vulnerable, also offering \u201cits willingness, if requested, to help de-escalate hostilities between the parties and create spaces for fruitful collaboration for the common good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV addressed the rising tensions between Cuba and the United States at the end of the Feb. 1 Angelus, expressing his concern and echoing the bishops\u2019 message he invited \u201call responsible parties to promote a sincere and effective dialogue, in order to avoid violence and every action that could increase the suffering of the dear Cuban people.\u201d<\/p>\n

A situation more serious than during the \u2018Special Period\u2019<\/h2>\n

Osvaldo Gallardo, a Cuban writer and analyst residing in the United States, stated that during the 40 years he lived on the island, he never experienced a crisis \u201clike the one being experienced now,\u201d with prolonged power outages, food shortages, the collapse of basic services, and a greater lack of freedom.<\/p>\n

He said that this social and economic situation can be considered worse than the one that occurred during the so-called \u201cSpecial Period\u201d of 1991\u20131994, which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union \u2014 which economically supported the island \u2014 and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the Special Period, it was difficult, but there was more of a sense of transiency. It was very difficult, but there was still a structure that responded to a reality that had been more stable; not better, but more stable,\u201d he explained to ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News.<\/p>\n

However, he noted that now the anthropological damage in Cuba \u201cis real and evident,\u201d and \u201call the human capital has been dissolved.\u201d Furthermore, \u201cthis period is already lasting longer, from 2020 to 2026, since the pandemic,\u201d and the country is not recovering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat suffering did not begin with sanctions; it began with an exhausted model and a power structure that refuses to relinquish control,\u201d Gallardo added in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n

In this regard, he said that the bishops\u2019 message \u201cis a moral warning issued when the deterioration is reaching dangerous levels and the risk of social chaos ceases to be a hypothesis.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he noted that the communist regime \u201cis not going to engage in dialogue,\u201d just as it \u201chasn\u2019t done so in more than six decades.\u201d He pointed out that for the dictatorship, dialogue \u201chas always been a strategy to buy time, not to change the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt must be said unequivocally: The dictatorship has to go,\u201d Gallardo stated. \u201cCuba needs urgent changes. It doesn\u2019t need more useless sacrifices or a false peace bought at the price of resignation. True peace is not the absence of conflict: It is justice. And when injustice is prolonged in the name of order, what is being protected is not peace, but abuse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This story was first published <\/a>by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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