CONSERVATIVE commentator Ben Shapiro hammered Black Lives Matter for praising Cuba’s government while the Caribbean country was in chaos brought on by uprisings and iron-fisted responses.

"Reminder: BLM is a horrible communist organization and always was,” Shapiro wrote in a tweet.

The racial justice organization was already fielding a barrage of criticism after it posted a statement condemning the US economic embargo as the source for the country’s strife and extolled the Cuban government for giving refuge to "Black revolutionaries.”

The statement originally posted on the organization’s Instagram read: "Black Lives Matter condemns the U.S. federal government's inhumane treatment of Cubans, and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo."

They claimed that the trade embargo was at the core of Cuba's current instability and was enacted with "the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans' right to choose their own government.”

It then nodded to the country’s track record of granting asylum to “Black revolutionaries” like Assata Shakur. 

Shakur, who was also known as JoAnne Chesimard, was convicted in US courts of being an accomplice in the 1973 slaying of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.  

Shakur broke free from prison and then fled to Cuba, where former Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro granted her asylum, according to Fox News.

The Black Lives Matter movement started from a social media hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter in response to the acquittal of Floridian George Zimmerman who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager named Trayvon Martin back in 2012.  

Last summer, the US was engulfed in protests following the murder of George Floyd.

Floyd, a 46-year-old black man died on May 25 while being pinned to the ground in Minneapolis by recently convicted white police officer Derek Chauvin.

The BLM statement was posted around the same time that Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel took some ownership for the country’s limited food supply and economic hardships. 

"We have to gain experience from the disturbances," he said.

"We also have to carry out a critical analysis of our problems in order to act and overcome, and avoid their repetition."

Díaz-Canel also aimed his discontent on US trade sanctions for causing Cuba’s economic struggles.

He urged his supporters and Communist sympathizers to get out and physically fight back against the protesters. 

“The order to combat has been given,” he said at the end of his appearance, “Revolutionaries need to be on the streets.”

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was quick to pounce on BLM's support for Cuba’s “Communist regime.” 

"The extortionist ring known as the Black Lives Matter organization took a break today from shaking down corporations for millions & buying themselves mansions to share their support for the Communist regime in #Cuba," he tweeted.

He then followed the critique with a patriotic note defending the US from being miscast as a villain. 

“The U.S. is the largest provider of food to #Cuba & each year sends $275 million in medicine & $3 billion in remittances to relatives,” he wrote in a tweet. 

“The suffering in Cuba isn’t because of an embargo, it’s because socialism always leads to suffering."

Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the US and suggested that Cuba’s troubles are tied to the mismanaged economy.

"That is what we are hearing and seeing in Cuba, and that is a reflection of the Cuban people, not of the United States or any other outside actor," he said, according to Fox News. 

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Black Lives Matter also called on the US to do away with Cuba’s sanctions that they argued employed "cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans’ right to choose their own government, is at the heart of Cuba’s current crisis."

Already, 100 anti-government protesters have been arrested or are missing following widespread protests. 

And at least one man was confirmed dead during clashes with police, according to the country’s Ministry of Interior, according to WSVN.

The protests are considered the most aggressive and widespread on the island in decades, as Cubans demanded food and medicine – crucial items in limited supply since the Covid-19 pandemic scourged the country.

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