A White House Executive Order signed May 1, 2026, and the Treasury’s designation of Cuban entities six days later, have taken Washington’s decades-long economic war against Cuba to a ruthless and unprecedented extreme — one that the Cuban government is calling what it is: genocide.

KINGSTON, Jamaica | May 8, 2026 | Calvin G. Brown  |  On May 1, 2026 — International Workers’ Day, with its bitter irony fully intact — the White House signed an Executive Order intensifying, to what the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described as “extreme and unprecedented levels,” the economic, financial, and commercial blockade against Cuba.