I Went To Cuba. Now The Feds Are Coming For Me.

I saw what the U.S. blockade does to a hospital. Now the Trump administration wants my financial records. Trump is starving Cuba into submission and subpoenaing the Americans who witnessed it.

This is another attempt at imperial escalation against Cuba in order to place it back in the hands of U.S. corporations.

The Trump regime is openly siccing federal agents on activists, journalists, and streamers who dared travel to Cuba in March as part of the Nuestra América Convoy. According to Fox News, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has served administrative subpoenas — “Requests for Information” — to Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Medea Benjamin, demanding financial, logistical, and communications records tied to their trips to Havana.

I was told to expect a subpoena of my own.

I was on the same convoy. Per Fox’s own reporting, the investigation is part of a broader dragnet covering as many as 40 American citizens, with additional subpoenas expected and the inquiry spanning Treasury, State, and the Justice Department. Legal experts cited in the same piece say it could escalate from civil enforcement into a criminal case under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

So this is not hypothetical for me. I am writing this knowing the federal government is preparing to demand my financial records, my communications, and an account of what I brought into Cuba and who I talked to while I was there.

What I brought into Cuba was humanitarian aid. Who I talked to were Cubans surviving a U.S. blockade. That is the “crime.”

This is what it means to be on the list of Americans the federal government is investigating for delivering food and medicine to Cuba.

We traveled to support the Cuban people who RIGHT NOW are suffering an illegal blockade by the United States — the longest economic blockade in modern history, condemned almost unanimously by the UN General Assembly year after year.

What I Saw on the Ground

I went to Cuba and I witnessed the deadly effects of this blockade.

Hospitals were forced to operate without electricity. Doctors were hand-pumping oxygen for patients who would otherwise die. America is blocking medical supplies. America is blocking fuel. America is collapsing the basic infrastructure that keeps 11 million people alive — and then telling the world that what’s happening is Cuba’s fault for choosing the wrong economic system.

Conditions for the people who call Cuba home have drastically worsened under the second Trump regime.

Watch my March 19th video showing what I’m bringing to Cuba and explain why I was motivated to go travel there and my reaction after returning to the United State.

The Playbook: Isolate, Starve, Submit

The strategy is consistent. Isolate a country that has done nothing wrong except self-determine. Strangle its supply lines. Wait for the population to break. Then offer “a deal” that hands the island back to U.S. corporate interests.

After Trump’s military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro in January, Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba — the island’s lifeline — were cut.

Then, on January 29, Trump signed an executive order threatening tariffs on any country that ships oil to Cuba. The threat was aimed squarely at Mexico, Cuba’s last major oil supplier. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned the move would “trigger a far-reaching humanitarian crisis” affecting hospitals, food supply, and other essential services. Mexico ultimately paused crude shipments and instead sent over 800 tons of humanitarian food aid — milk, rice, beans, canned protein — by navy ship as a workaround.

When pressed by a reporter on whether he was trying to “choke off” Cuba, Trump said:

“The word ‘choke off’ is awfully tough. I’m not trying to, but, it looks like it’s something that’s just not going to be able to survive.”

He’s also publicly called Cuba “ready to fall,” framing the situation as a “humanitarian threat” Cuba should “make a deal” over.

Translation: the President of the United States is openly admitting he is ruining life in Cuba in order to force submission to U.S. wealthy interests. This is what economic warfare looks like, in plain English, from the Oval Office.

The Pre-Crime Center Comes Online

Now that same administration is turning the machinery of the national security state inward, against Americans who object.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein has been reporting for months on Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), signed in September 2025. Trump’s latest budget request reveals a new “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center” run by the FBI, staffed by personnel from 10 federal agencies, tasked with “proactively” identifying so-called domestic terrorists.

This is a pre-crime center and it is being used to attack Americans.

According to documents Klippenstein obtained, the beliefs the center treats as indicators of domestic terrorism include:

• “anti-Americanism”

• “anti-capitalism”

• “anti-Christianity”

• “support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government”

• “extremism on migration,” “race,” and “gender”

• “Hostility” toward “traditional American views” on family, religion, and morality

As Klippenstein puts it: if your political views are practically anything other than MAGA, you are on notice. FBI Director Kash Patel has testified to Congress about a 300 percent increase in domestic terrorism investigations under his watch.

The Cuba subpoenas are a downstream application of this pre-crime architecture. A humanitarian aid convoy — food, medical supplies, solidarity with a population the U.S. government is actively trying to starve — is being investigated as if it were terrorism financing. The OFAC framework lets the government impose civil penalties under a “strict liability” standard, meaning they don’t have to prove you meant to do anything wrong. You just had to be there.

The framing is deliberate. By laundering political solidarity through the language of “sanctions violations” and “malign foreign influence,” the Trump administration is criminalizing the act of caring about a population it is openly trying to destroy.

Why This Matters

The empire needs Cubans to be silent and Americans to be afraid. It needs activists subpoenaed, journalists smeared as Marxist agents, and streamers profiled in hostile coverage that signals to every other potential witness: this is what happens if you go look.

We went and looked. We saw doctors hand-pumping ventilators. We saw an entire society holding itself together against a deliberately engineered collapse. And we came home and said so out loud.

That is what they are trying to punish.

This precedent is a dark display of the fascist times we are in.

But the convoy did what it set out to do, and silence is not on the table. Please stand in solidarity against this authoritarian abuse of power by the U.S. government.

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