***IMMEDIATE ACTION***BLOCK TRUMP FROM ATTACKING CUBA [06-08-26]
On May 20, Cuban Independence Day, U.S. prosecutors indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro, charging him with murder for shooting down two planes over international waters in 1966. Havana maintains the incident occurred over its airspace and the four killed were members of a Miami-based armed exile group.
Many are certain this indictment is a pretext for an invasion, or at least a snatch-and-grab operation like that against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro—a possibility Todd Blanche, Trump’s Acting Attorney General, confirmed.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who’s been obsessed with regime change for years, subsequently told reporters,” Cuba has always posed a national security threat to the U.S”—bolstering this claim with the leak of classified reports that Cuba had acquired 300 military drones with which its military planned to attack the US base at Guantanamo and even Key West.
That an island country reeling from a near-total U.S. blockade could pose such a threat is preposterous.
Nevertheless, the White House just deployed the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, with its 2,500 Marines, to the region and increased surveillance flights along Cuba’s coast, sending a clear message that it could pounce at any time.
Congress remained silent when Trump illegally declared war against Venezuela and Iran. Rather than repeating the same error here, it must reassert its exclusive, constitutionally enshrined war-making authority enshrined in the Constitution, support Reps. Velázquez’s and Meeks’ recently introduced resolution barring an attack on Cuba without Congressional approval, and legislatively lift Trump’s illegal blockade.
ACTION One: Call the Senate and the House.
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
SEN. WYDEN: Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
REP. BONAMICI: Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | D.C. office: 202-225-0855
REP. BENTZ: Medford office: 541-776-4646 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. DEXTER: Portland office: 503-231-2300 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. HOYLE: Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | D.C. office: 202-225-6416
REP. BYNUM: Oregon City office: 503-387-8651 | D.C. office: 202-225-5711
REP. SALINAS: Salem office: 503-385-0906 | D.C. office: 202-225-5643
