Rep. Jim McGovern rides to the rescue of communist hellhole Cuba
He joins Rep. Ilhan Omar and other far-left Democrats in shilling for a repressive, detested regime and not for the first time.
Monica Showalter | February 13, 2026
To read the international news coverage of President Trump's embargo of oil on Cuba which is now on its last legs, you'd think the communist island were just a sweet little mild-mannered nation minding its own business when Big Bad Trump came along and took away its oil, following the U.S.'s extraction of Cuba's supplier of oil, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, who had been handing it to them for free.
It's garbage. Cuba is one of the world's most repressive communist hellholes that imprisons disssidents, runs torture chambers, exports torturers to the world's rogue regimes, spies on the U.S., infamously harms U.S. government personnel through electromagnetic attacks (Havana Syndrome), trains radical leftists both here and in Latin America in the antifa tactics we see in Los Angeles and Minneapolis, ships illegal migrants to the states by the millions, and leverages its geography to help states such as Russia, China and Iran to spy on, microwave on, and gather intelligence about the U.S.
No, it's not a friend. It's an enemy, and with Maduro gone, President Trump is right to shut it down.
That's too much for some Democrats in Congress, who bizarrely consider Trump, not Cuba, the bad guy and are stepping up to the plate to defend the monstrous regime. One of them was Rep. Ilhan Omar, the world's most ungrateful migrant, whom I wrote about
here. A third is jurassic Democrat
Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York.