Because a lie repeated a thousand times does not become truth, President Trump called Cuba "an absolutely failed state" from the UN podium.

When he pronounced those words, Cuban diplomats stood up and left the room. There was no need to refute him; the action itself was the most eloquent response.

It was not a diplomatic discourtesy, but the minimum dignity of a sovereign country in the face of slander.

Who is truly responsible for the situation the Island is going through? The answer is not in Havana, it is in Washington; Trump himself admitted it: "I don't think more pressure can be applied, unless we go in and destroy that place."

That phrase was not a policy statement; it is a confession. It recognizes that the United States' intention is not to "help the Cuban people," but to "destroy" the Caribbean nation.

From 1962 to today, more than six decades of economic blockade have not for an instant released the hand squeezing the Island's throat. In recent months, the current administration has tightened it even further.

Let us look at what the 2026 calendar of economic war says: on January 29, Trump signed an executive order imposing tariffs on countries that sell fuel to Cuba and declaring it a "threat to national security."

What was the result? More than 60% of the national territory in darkness during peak hours, hospital medical equipment unable to function, 100,000 patients, including 12,000 children, on surgical waiting lists with no date.

Patients dying of cancer every day, with a survival rate that plummeted from 85% to 65% for a reason that hurts because of how simple it is: medicines are lacking, there is no equipment, there is no fuel.

On May 1, Executive Order 14404 expanded the sanctions and targeted the financial, mining and energy heart of the largest of the Antilles. Then more came: on June 23, five entities and one person to the blacklist; on September 2, sanctions against the International Financial Bank and an oil importing company.

Behind every list there is a minute stolen from the lives of Cubans. The numbers are cold, but the story they tell burns.

According to the report the Island will present next October before the UN itself, between March 2025 and February 2026 alone, the blockade caused losses of 8,083 million dollars, 7% more than the previous year.

The accumulated damage amounts to 178,700 million dollars. If adjusted for the revaluation of gold against the dollar, the figure climbs to 3.89 trillion; without the blockade, Cuban GDP would have grown 10.8% in 2025. This is not an economic "failure": it is systematically strangled prosperity.

The energy blow is the most stark: a fuel deficit of 2.67 million tons, a loss of 1,400 megawatts of available power, 983 gigawatt-hours less generated by diesel and fuel oil. Of 15 thermoelectric units, 11 cannot enter their normal maintenance cycle.

That is the truth of the "absolutely failed state" Trump referred to in his speech: not the failure of a system, but the "success" of a superpower that uses every means at its disposal to prevent a small nation from functioning normally.

The president of the northern nation says Cuba is a "haven for hostile foreign forces that threaten the United States." He claims there is a Russian and Chinese military presence entrenched on the Island.

The evidence? None, not a single one, no satellite images, no intelligence reports, no confirmation from UN observers. Nothing. Only the word of the executioner from the UN podium.

A word that serves to give new legitimacy to an economic war of more than 60 years.

Meanwhile, what does Cuba do? It carries out "deep transformations" in its economy. It is not the "failure" Trump proclaims, but the resilience of a system in the face of extreme pressure.

When the United States tries to cut off every drop of oil, the Island restructures its economy, boosts the private sector and seeks new commercial partners among those willing to deal as equals.

It is not the agony before collapse: it is the intelligence of a small country that survives under siege.

And the "zero option"? Trump's spokespeople wield it immediately, but they do not say that the supposed "official emergency statement" of the "zero option" never existed.

The Civil Defense General Staff denied that such a document circulated on social media: it is false, it is not a plan of the Cuban Government, it is part of the information war: to sow panic, break trust, prepare the ground for the "regime change" to which the occupant of the Oval Office referred in his words.

Trump says Cuba "will fall," but he does not say who falls. The Cuban system does not fall, dignity does not fall, sovereignty does not fall: the war affects ordinary families who endure more than 20 hours of blackouts; what does fall into the mud once again is the shame of the White House, if any is left.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez responded to Washington on one occasion with a simple and profound phrase: "Cuba is not a threat. The blockade is."

That phrase is worth repeating, it is worth engraving in the conscience of every delegate at the UN. Cuba is a peaceful country, it is not the one threatening Iran with total extermination if it does not submit, it does not threaten Venezuela, it does not lie and boast about how it steals that nation's oil, as the Yankee president did at the UN.

The U.S. President says that "freedom will come to Cuba," but the Island is already free and conquered its freedom with the sacrifice of its best sons.

Washington can keep repeating "failed state," can keep signing unilateral coercive measures, can keep lying from the UN podium, but free Cuba will continue to exist.