This Tuesday, the platform and social network Youtube removed the profile of the Italian Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba (AICEC) , which disseminated materials from the documentary campaign "Let Cuba Breathe" , characterized by the publication of testimonies of those affected by the intensification of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against the island.
The agency reported that the campaign's testimonies will be disseminated online through the official profile on the Vimeo platform , as part of the global initiative to condemn the blockade, documenting the population's resistance and their determination not to give up.
The campaign was launched on February 14th, seeking to highlight the consequences of the executive order signed by President Donald Trump , which threatens to impose tariffs on countries that supply fuel to the island. It also aims to counter the ongoing psychological warfare operations funded from abroad against the Cuban Revolution.
Cuban authorities have condemned the US measures as "criminal actions" that seek to socially collapse the Caribbean nation through "economic strangulation . "
In this regard, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced the attempts by sectors seeking to deny the consequences of the blockade imposed more than six decades ago against Cuba, making its reality invisible.
The blockade, decades of aggression and economic warfare
The United States blockade of Cuba, in force since the 1960s and which has incorporated new restrictions over time, with a strong component of persecution and financial restrictions, consists of a complex legal framework of coercive measures and economic aggression that entail a genocidal, unilateral and extraterritorial system.
Their objective for more than six decades has been to cause economic strangulation and immobility and to affect socio-economic development, imposing severe restrictions and causing suffering on the population in order to force a regime change on the island.
At current prices, the accumulated damages caused by this policy to the Cuban economy amount to more than $170.677 billion. Taking into account the value of gold on the international market, to avoid fluctuations in the value of the dollar, the accumulated losses exceed $2.1 trillion, according to data from the Cuban government in its report to the UN General Assembly.
“ It is not possible to express in numbers the emotional damage, the anguish, the suffering, the deprivations that the blockade generates in the Cuban family . This has been the case for several generations, since more than 80% of Cubans on the Island were born after the beginning of the blockade , ” said Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla in September 2025 when presenting the island's report on the blockade, intended for the United Nations General Assembly.
