A coalition including American leftist groups has deployed an “aid” convoy to Cuba amid fears of U.S. action against the regime.
The newly-formed Nuestra América Convoy will convene in Havana on Saturday to deliver “humanitarian” supplies to Cubans after several activist groups embarked from the U.S., according to announcements from those involved. The traveling coalition includes the Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the pro-North Korea group Nodutdol, Code Pink. President Donald Trump called the deeply impoverished country “a failed nation” in a Wednesday press conference, floating intervention.
“The Trump administration is strangling the island, cutting off fuel, flights, and critical supplies for survival … That is why we are preparing the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, mobilizing by air, land, and sea in solidarity with the Cuban people,” the convoy’s website says.
The Nuestra América Convoy, named “Our America Convoy” in English, did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Participants should bring food and medication, as well as flashlights, batteries, lamps and solar-powered chargers to help with Cuba’s recent power grid failure, according to the convoy’s website. The site urges participants to comply with Treasury Department regulations on Cuba travel.
Also participating is the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), a U.S.-based group that regularly takes Americans on field trips to Cuba, the group said in a Friday email to supporters obtained by the DCNF.
The NNOC has collaborated with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, which a U.S. intelligence report said was created by late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for communist propaganda purposes. Other organizations listed as “partners” — the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADC), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the U.S. Peace Council — have historical ties to the former Soviet Union.
American intelligence labeled IADC a “Communist Front” group in 1967 because it hired Soviets, while the NLG helped create the IADC with help from the United Nations and lists its president as a top NLG official. The Soviet government itself created the U.S. Peace Council to oppose American foreign policy interests, according to U.S. intelligence and its former director, Michael Myerson.
Trump has recently ramped up pressure on Cuba, which became another communist U.S. adversary ever since revolutionaries took power in 1959.
The president labeled Cuba a “state sponsor of terrorism” during his first term for protecting militants from extradition, including some tied to American deaths. Former President Joe Biden removed the label just before leaving office, but Trump reinstated it in January 2025.
In addition to threatening an invasion, Trump has reportedly demanded that Cuba remove dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel from power and convinced leaders to release dozens of domestic prisoners. Trump also imposed immigration restrictions on Cuba in June over frequent visa violations and national security concerns.
The Trump administration’s January arrest of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro on drug and weapons charges means the president’s Cuba threats should not be taken lightly, the NNOC’s Friday email said — calling Maduro’s capture a “kidnapping.”
“The US wants to recolonize Cuba and call it a win,” the NNOC. “We will not let that happen.”
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