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The Cuban Com­mu­nist Par­ty has shown an as­ton­ish­ing re­silience over six decades in pow­er.

Whether it’s the Unit­ed States trade em­bar­go to counter Fi­del Cas­tro’s 1959 rev­o­lu­tion, or the wide­spread star­va­tion of the “spe­cial pe­ri­od” that fol­lowed the breakup of its Cold War pa­tron, the So­vi­et Union, both U.S. hos­til­i­ties and calami­ties of its own mak­ing have proven no match for the coun­try’s lead­er­ship.

But per­haps none of those crises pose as grave a threat as the one trig­gered by an all-but-de­clared naval siege by the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion as it seeks to force regime change in the wake of its suc­cess­ful oust­ing of Cu­ba’s long­time al­ly Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.