Now is the time to seriously consider giving Cuba’s communist thugs a final shove into the dustbin of history |
“Cuba looks like it is ready to fall,” President Trump told reporters on Air Force One last Sunday.
As the free world basked in the news of the president’s ouster of former Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro, reporters wondered where Trump might project American power next. Colombia, Mexico and Greenland were all mentioned.
Regarding Cuba, however, the president seemed ready to wait for the isolated island nation’s communist government, now deprived of Venezuelan oil to power its creaking electricity grid and ancient American cars, to collapse on its own.
But as Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hinted — musing that he would be “concerned” if he “lived in Havana” and “was in the government” there — the time has come to give Cuba’s communist thugs a final shove into the dustbin of history.
Cubans have suffered in poverty, despair and terror ever since Fidel Castro entered Havana 67 years ago last Thursday. Decades of American sanctions, the abrupt cut-off of Soviet aid in 1991 and extreme deprivation in recent years have not dislodged the regime, which holds a monopoly of force and relies on unfettered KGB-trained brutality to lord it over a fearful populace.........