VATICAN CITY.- This Sunday, the Pope Leo XIV asked Cuba y USA “a sincere and effective dialogue to avoid violence and any action that could increase the suffering of the Cuban people,” after the angelus prayer in the St. Peter’s Square.
“I have received with great concern news of increasing tensions between Cuba and the United States, two neighboring countries, and I join the message of the Cuban bishops to promote dialogue…” said the Pope, leaning out of the window of his study in the apostolic palace.
I have received with great concern news about an increase in tensions between Cuba and the United States of America, two neighboring countries. I join the message of the Cuban bishops, inviting all those responsible to promote a sincere and effective dialogue, to avoid…
— Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex_es) February 1, 2026
The pontiff also asked that Our Lady of Charity of Copper, the patron saint of Cuba, “protect and assist all the children of this beloved land.”
Concern of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba
The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC) expressed this Saturday “your deep concern” in the face of what he considered a “worsening” of the economic and social situation in the country, and urged “to seek paths of dialogue and structural changes.”
“Cuba needs changes and they are increasingly urgent, but it does not need more anguish or pain at all,” stressed the message from the Cuban Catholic bishops, in reference to a possible paralysis of oil supplies following the order of US President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on countries that sell crude oil to the island.
The Republican signed an executive order on Thursday establishing that Cuba “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy” of the United States.
The new measure comes after the cutoff of Venezuelan crude oil supply to Havana announced after the arrest of the president Nicolas Maduroin a US military intervention on January 3.
Trump believes that the Cuban government has its days numbered since then and maintains that blocking the supply of oil to the island will cause a regime change in a country already worn down by the economic, energy and social crisis.
In this regard, the COCC added: “We want and long for a renewed, prosperous and happy Cuba, but without increasing the suffering of the poor, the elderly, the sick, and the Cuban children.”
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