The Unified Federation of Oil Workers (FUP) announced that on Friday it sent an official letter to the Executive Directorate of Logistics, Commercialization, and Markets of the state-owned company Petrobras, requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of an emergency fuel shipment to Cuba.

This request is part of the "Oil for Cuba" campaign, launched by social organizations, popular movements, and workers in the sector to pressure the Brazilian government and Petrobras to carry out the aforementioned shipment to the Caribbean nation.

The action comes following the executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump, which threatens to impose tariffs on those who sell or supply oil to Cuba—a measure aimed at suffocating the island nation by depriving it of the fuel necessary for its most diverse activities.

In response to this tightening of the blockade imposed by Washington against the island more than 60 years ago, the Brazilian Movement for Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes, the José Martí Cultural Association, popular entities, unions, and political parties launched the initiative, with the support of the two national federations of oil workers, FUP and FNP.

In the letter addressed to the Executive Directorate of Logistics, Commercialization, and Markets of Petrobras, the first of these unions warned that the recent intensification of commercial and energy restrictions has directly impacted supplies to Cuba, which faces humanitarian risks.

Faced with this situation, the oil workers stated that it is essential to establish an institutional dialogue on viable alternatives, regulatory and operational aspects, as well as possible avenues for cooperation.

According to the letter, Brazilian diplomacy has already rightly expressed its position on the matter, but concrete, urgent, and humanitarian actions are needed.

"Petrobras, as a public company of a sovereign country, must get involved to guarantee the supply of oil to the Caribbean nation," emphasized FUP director Paulo Neves.

The initiative is not an isolated case. Since the news of Trump's order spread, numerous organizations, activists, politicians, and people in solidarity with the island have condemned the measure and called for mobilizing efforts to support the Caribbean nation.

In that regard, the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and other popular organizations in Brazil are carrying out a campaign to purchase medicines and send them to Cuba.

This was confirmed by João Pedro Stedile, founder and national leader of the MST, who denounced that the effects of the blockade have enormously affected the Cuban government's ability to purchase medicines on the international market, whether due to lack of access to foreign currency or carriers.

According to Stedile, the movements that feel solidarity with the heroic epic of the Cuban people have, at the very least, an obligation to find a way to alleviate the suffering of those who are ill there and try to send medications.

"Fortunately, here in Brazil we found a large laboratory willing to supply the needed medications at wholesale prices, and then we would send them by plane," explained the MST leader.

The MST also released a statement asserting that, faced with the U.S. siege, immediate solidarity with Cuba is needed from both Brazil and the international community.

Through that text, popular movements, union federations, political parties, authorities, and Brazilian personalities denounced the intensification of aggressions against the Caribbean nation and called on the Brazilian government to assume an active role in the face of the serious humanitarian crisis imposed by the U.S. blockade.

Amid these calls, the portal Brasil de Fato reported yesterday that the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is studying following the example of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and sending a shipment of humanitarian aid to Cuba focused on medicines and basic foodstuffs.

According to information provided to that media outlet by the Ministry of Agrarian Development of the South American giant, the action is being coordinated by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Foreign Ministry.

Each of these news items confirms a scenario marked by calls for solidarity, coming even from Lula himself, who urged the Workers' Party to help Cuba and considered that the island is a victim of a speculative massacre by the United States.

A cartoon published on the Brasil247 portal summarizes this level of support for Cuba: the artwork shows the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, pointing accusingly at Trump.

"You blocked the oil going to Cuba, but we will resist with something you don't have: the solidarity and sympathy of the world," Fidel tells the U.S. president.

This work, authored by cartoonist and journalist Miguel Paiva, is titled "Cuba is Not Alone," and that phrase, here in Brazil, seems well substantiated.