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The U.S. government announced that it will send a new shipment of humanitarian aid to Cuba worth $6 million, which will be delivered directly to the population through the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

On its website<\/a>, the U.S. State Department informed on Feb. 5 that the decision was made \u201cfollowing the success of the partnership\u201d with the Catholic Church in Cuba in distributing the first $3 million in aid.<\/p>\n

The department explained that this second round of assistance \u201cwill be delivered through the same channel as the first $3 million, with prepackaged commodities transported from Miami and delivered by local parish representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis method has proven highly effective at ensuring that the failed Cuban regime cannot interfere with, or divert, assistance intended for the island\u2019s needy population,\u201d said the department, headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants.<\/p>\n

As with the first delivery, \u201cthe regime must not make any effort to interfere with the provision of this lifesaving support. We remain vigilant in tracking any diversion or frustration of U.S. assistance efforts, and the regime will be accountable to the United States and its own people for any interference,\u201d the statement warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond this tranche of assistance, the United States stands ready to surge even greater direct support to the Cuban people. The corrupt regime must simply permit it,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Following the announcement, Cuba\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo, wrote on X that it was \u201chypocritical to apply coercive measures\u201d and \u201cthen announce soup and canned goods for a few.\u201d<\/p>\n

The official was referring to the tariffs announced by the United States on countries that send oil to the island as a way to further pressure the communist regime that has governed Cuba since 1959.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 14, Caritas Cuba \u2014 the charitable arm of the Church \u2014 received the first shipment of aid to assist those still suffering the consequences of Hurricane Melissa, which struck the island on Oct. 29, 2025.<\/p>\n

On the same day the first shipment arrived, the Cuban ministry of foreign affairs stated that there had been \u201cno official communication\u201d between the two governments to confirm the shipment.<\/p>\n

U.S. bishops\u2019 role<\/h2>\n

\u201cIt was the Cuban Catholic Church that contacted the country\u2019s authorities with the information that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) intended to serve as the channel for sending material assistance to Cuba, which would be provided by the U.S. government,\u201d the ministry reported in a statement published in the official newspaper Granma.<\/p>\n

For its part, Caritas Cuba stated that day that the material assistance \u201cwill be distributed by the Catholic Church\u201d and that it worked together \u201cwith Catholic Relief Services in organizing this shipment. Technical support from Caritas Germany was also received in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, Mike Hammer, also reported that he had met with the president of the Cuban Bishops\u2019 Conference, Bishop Arturo Gonz\u00e1lez Amador, and the archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad Garc\u00eda, to \u201creview the progress of the distribution of humanitarian aid.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that international humanitarian aid is not passing through the regime\u2019s controls marks an unprecedented event in Cuban history, since previous assistance had always required the participation and approval of the state.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 31, 2025, before this U.S. initiative began, the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH, by its Spanish acronym) reported that the regime had \u201cestablished \u2018checkpoints\u2019 at the exit of Las Tunas province and at the entrance to Granma province, to prevent the passage of people from the western and central parts of the island carrying food and other aid, especially from Christian churches,\u201d intended to support those affected by Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe OCDH demands that the Cuban government allow the flow of aid from civil society and refrain from attempting to control social initiatives,\u201d the organization stated.<\/p>\n

Continued support for humanitarian channels<\/h2>\n

The Christian Liberation Movement<\/a> (MCL, by its Spanish acronym) expressed its support for the U.S. humanitarian aid effort and said that providing assistance to the population through humanitarian channels is the way to \u201cbreak the relationship of forced dependence that the dictatorship has imposed for decades as a mechanism of domination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time in history, this aid disconnects the dictatorship\u2019s direct control over the people\u201d and is truly humanitarian and not ideological, since \u201cit doesn\u2019t involve slogans\u201d or require political allegiance. \u201cFor the first time, a Cuban can receive aid without supporting the regime, without thanking the regime, without being politically dependent on the regime,\u201d the organization stated in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The MCL recalled that in July 2021 \u2014 after the protests that the government responded to with repression \u2014 it called on the international community to implement \u201c11 concrete actions to isolate the Cuban regime, in solidarity with the freedom of the Cuban people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn point 10 of those actions, we requested the creation of a humanitarian channel that would allow aid to be sent directly to the Cuban people while isolating the regime,\u201d the MCL pointed out.<\/p>\n

The Christian Liberation Movement noted that \u201cthis aid, distributed by the Church and supervised by the donors, not by the Cuban state, makes concrete an essential idea: international pressure must be directed at the oppressive power, and solidarity must reach \u2014 without political intermediaries \u2014 those who are suffering.\u201d<\/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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