Spain, Brazil, and Mexico have issued a joint declaration committing to increase humanitarian aid to Cuba and calling for dialogue to resolve the island's deepening crisis, following a summit of progressive leaders held in Barcelona this weekend. The trilateral statement, proposed by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at the IV Summit in Defence of Democracy convened by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, expresses "enormous concern" over Cuba's humanitarian situation after three months of energy shortages linked to pressure from the Trump administration, and demands respect for Cuba's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva went further, calling on the international community to "stop this blockade," while Cuba's foreign minister welcomed the statement as an act of solidarity amid what he described as an extreme tightening of the US embargo; the White House had not responded at the time of publication.