Marvel Star Mark Ruffalo Joins Pro-Communist ‘Let Cuba Live’ Celebrity Campaign
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Hollywood actors Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon are among the signatories of a newly launched initiative, “Let Cuba Live,” which criticizes President Donald Trump’s policies toward Cuba. The campaign describes the president’s approach as an effort to “induce a famine in Cuba,” claiming it risks “mass starvation and human suffering.” The letter does not mention the decades of economic hardship and repression under Cuba’s communist government.
The initiative’s website lists several prominent figures and organizations among its supporters, including Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, actor Kal Penn, director Boots Riley, New York State Senator Julia Salazar, and roughly 20 New York City council members. Groups backing the campaign include the Democratic Socialists of America, Codepink, and the People’s Forum, which has historically maintained ties with Cuba and China’s communist party.
President Trump signed an executive order in January designating the Castro regime as a national security threat, citing its support for international terrorism, persecution of political dissidents, and spread of communist influence in the region. The order also imposes penalties on countries supplying oil to Cuba. So far, Cuba has not received shipments from its usual suppliers, including Venezuela, Mexico, China, or Russia.
The Let Cuba Live letter criticizes President Trump for reversing former President Barack Obama’s “Cuban thaw” policies, which aimed to normalize relations and reopened embassies after more than 50 years. The initiative argues that Trump’s policy will harm ordinary Cubans by causing power outages, hospital shortages, food insecurity, and vulnerability among children and the elderly.
The letter claims:
“Trump has reversed the path that the Obama administration began. His January 29 Executive Order labels Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to the United States… This is obviously false, but it provides a pretext to impose severe economic penalties on any country that attempts to deliver oil or trade with Cuba.”
The Cuban government has publicly promoted the campaign on its official website and social media accounts, praising the participation of international public figures and encouraging supporters to sign the letter.
Critics of the campaign argue that the hardships cited in the letter largely stem from the Cuban government’s own 67 years of communist rule, which has left the nation’s infrastructure and economy in a chronic state of crisis.
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