Overview
- Nearly 20 Democratic representatives led by Nydia Velázquez introduced a resolution to repudiate the doctrine, end unilateral sanctions, declassify U.S. records on interventions, and pursue reforms at international financial institutions.
- Sponsors frame the move as a direct response to the White House’s stated plan to reaffirm the doctrine and to a January intervention in Venezuela that led to Nicolás Maduro’s capture, as well as new measures targeting Cuba.
- Lawmakers including Delia Ramírez, Chuy García, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cited humanitarian harm in Cuba, pointing to fuel shortages and risks to hospitals, schools and access to food and medicine.
- Civil-society allies launched the 'Deja que viva Cuba' campaign, with actors Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon and Kal Penn, author Alice Walker, New York City council members and national groups urging an immediate end to the blockade.
- The resolution also demands transparency on roughly two centuries of U.S. actions in the region, referencing about 70 interventions and 23 coups documented by researchers, while its authors acknowledge long odds in a Republican-run House.