HUGO CHAVEZ INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
FOR PEACE, FRIENDSHIP AND SOLIDARITY
HCIF-PFS
Email: hugochavezfoundation@gmail.com
16th February, 2026
PUBLIC RELEASE STATEMENT
The Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCIF-PFS), through this public statement refutes in the strongest terms the assumption that Cuba is on the verge of total collapse and that regime change in Havana is imminent. This assumption came about following the new measures, announced pursuant to the US supposed national emergency order dated 29th January, 2026.
These new measures include preventing the sale of fuel to Cuba and preparing a military intervention to execute regime change in Havana. These coercive acts, directed at a sovereign independent member-state of the United Nations are unprecedented and constitute serious attacks against the UN Charter and International Law. They are nothing but another attempt to meddle in Cuba’s domestic matters and destabilise the Caribbean nation.
Washington’s threats to punish any country or business that sells fuel to Cuba is a continuation of the US misguided and hostile police towards the Caribbean nation. The goal of these new immoral measures is to inflict suffering on the Cuban population and destabilise the Caribbean region. For more than half a century now, the United States has imposed unilateral sanctions and other harsh measures that have placed heavy and unbearable pressures on the Cuban government and the general public, leading to widened poverty, reduced economic development, and lack of access to essential human needs, to mention just a few.
Since the second coming of President Donald Trump in January, 2025 the fate of the Cuban population has constantly been threatened by fresh and most extensive coercive measures. These fresh measures are imposed on Cuba to pressure the government to subject itself to Washington’s designs and tastes. The impact of these debilitating, spurious and wicked actions has failed to achieve its goal of subjecting the Cuban government to the wills of Washington, but instead have disproportionately and indiscriminately harmed the most vulnerable Cuban population, including children, women, the elderly, the sick, and the poor.
Today, Cuba is one country among many others that is saddled by an array of coercive measures that have been imposed by the United States. The HCIF-PFS rejects attempts at disinformation that undermine the peace and stability of Cuba, and joins millions of voices around the world to seek the removal of Cuba in the US list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Cuba is not a terrorist state, but on the contrary, it is a victim of state terrorism, and the Caribbean nation has not been an obstructing factor for peace and stability.
The Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity therefore rejects the sweeping statement and the misleading characterization of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. For the Trump administration in Washington to equate Cuba with the activities of terrorism is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on fabrication of misleading information.
Washington has failed to furnish evidence for its preposterous terrorism charges against Cuba, which in any case is totally unfounded. HCIF-PFS is of the opinion that Cuba which suffered from terrorism for decades, and attempts to execute regime change in the Caribbean nation is an act of war. The HCIF-PFS has always condemned violence and war aggression rhetoric in whatever form or manifestation.
Long live Cuba!
Signed:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
International Executive Director (IED), and President of the Governing Council of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCIF-PFS)