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The U.S. is Still Making Life Miserable for Cubans
While halfway around the world Hezbollah and Iran are beating the living daylights out of Israel, here in our own hemisphere, superintended by a bilious potentate, a much different story is unfolding. Donald Trump’s garish kidnapping of the Venezuelan president, followed by his ferocious starvation blockade of Cuba and his announcement March 16 that “I can do anything I want with Cuba,” are white house depravities about which there seems little the world can do. Sadly, the other two mega-powers, China and Russia, leave the U.S. to rampage in its backyard, though currently its maniacal crimes have simmered down. The U.S. is now supposedly in talks with Cuba, but no one in their right mind thinks this means life has improved for the average person on the island.
Cuba suffers from widespread blackouts and an expanding energy crisis. According to RT March 14, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed the talks with the Trump cuckoo birds, though on the evening of March 16, those psychopaths repeated their demand that Diaz-Canel step down. This high-handed command and the talks follow “weeks of power cuts, fuel shortages and growing public anger after the halt of Venezuelan oil shipments…and as Washington stepped up efforts to block other suppliers. Trump has repeatedly threatened a ‘total oil blockade’ of Cuba and warned that countries selling crude to the island could face tariffs.”
That bluster about tariffs no doubt accounts for Cuba’s oil drought and for el jefe’s prediction last week that Cuba “is gonna fall pretty soon.” What can you call this besides Washington’s fascist doctrine?—undermine or overthrow every leftist government in Latin America from Honduras to Venezuela to Cuba in the hopes that Bukele-style rightists seize power. I’ll tell you what else you can call it: the U.S. obsessive compulsive fixation on communists who have been minding their own business and done absolutely zip to bother Washington besides simply exist, something the white house finds intolerable.
But some people have other ideas. Some people are not commie-hating Neanderthals who fancy themselves disrupting Cuban five-year plans. Those people are not to be found in the Trump regime. They are to be found…in the Vatican. You read that right. According to........