Bishops Warn Cuba Risks Social Chaos If Urgent Changes Not Made

By Eduardo Berdejo

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC, by its Spanish acronym) warned that the country risks descending into social chaos and violence if increasingly urgent structural changes are not implemented.

The Catholic Church’s warning came in a message released on Jan. 31, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose extraordinary tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba.

Venezuela had stopped exporting oil to Cuba in November 2025...