Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a member of the United States House of Representatives, denounced the cruel and despotic oil blockade against Cuba imposed by the Donald Trump administration, which today tightens the economic siege on the Caribbean nation.

"The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba is cruel and despotic," wrote the Minnesota Democrat on X, asserting that "this is an economic war designed to suffocate an island, where innocent civilians will pay with their lives to force regime change."

"We must lift the embargo NOW," Omar emphasized, one of the voices from the most progressive wing of the Democratic Party within the U.S. Congress.

Her Thursday social media post was accompanied by an article published in The Wall Street Journal about the situation in Cuba following Trump's executive order of January 29.

The Republican ruler declared a national emergency regarding the island and, to address it, designed a battery of coercive tariffs to be applied extraterritorially to those countries that try to supply oil to Cuba directly or indirectly.

"Daily life in Cuba is grinding to a halt because of the U.S. campaign to block the island's oil imports, drawing international criticism," the newspaper indicated.

Another pronouncement on Capitol Hill the day before came from Jim McGovern, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, who introduced a new bill to lift the blockade against the Caribbean nation.

The initiative rejects six decades of failed foreign policy against the island and advocates for the use of diplomacy and dialogue, according to a statement published on the Massachusetts representative's official page.

McGovern introduced H.R. 7521, the U.S.-Cuba Trade Act, in response to Trump's recent measures.

H.R. 7521, the U.S.-Cuba Trade Act, would repeal or amend several laws codified over decades that restrict trade, exchange, telecommunications, and travel with Cuba, he noted.

A similar bill, S. 136, was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Oregon Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley.

"The United States has maintained an embargo (blockade) against Cuba for (more than) sixty years," McGovern emphasized.

He added that this economic siege "is not only absurdly ineffective, but it is counterproductive and harms precisely (...) the ordinary people and their families who are denied food, medicine, and basic goods."

On February 3, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy affixed his signature, decreeing the blockade against Cuba. Four days after that order was issued, Washington's illegal and inhumane policy became official.