Contributed by Mark Wignall
One of my friends who lives in Miami and is an immigration specialist tells me that he sees the Cuban/American situation a bit differently from me. “Since I migrated to the USA, to Miami, I have made many friends with Cubans and spent a lot of time with them. Mark, horror stories exist. Castro and his regime have been quite evil to many of those Cubans. Taking their businesses, assets, and homes, oppressing them, and exiling them. Castro and his successors have killed, maimed, detained, jailed, exiled, and oppressed the population of Cuba. They have no respect for human rights or those who disagree with them.
“Mark, maybe you genuinely don't know this. Even before this recent situation, the present Cuban ruling class live in large, opulent homes in gated communities with all the electricity they need and all the food they need, while most Cubans live with little or no electricity, food rations, are hungry and live in poverty.
“I do not like Trump’s aggressive regime change moves, but the Cuban regime is awful, and Fidel made his bed and that of his people when, in 1962, he wanted to let the Russians put missiles in Cuba, a mere ninety miles away from the US mainland, and doing Russia’s bidding for many years while Russia propped up Cuba.
“The people of Cuba deserve a better, more humane, decent government. I am mindful that Cuba has been a good neighbour to Jamaica. But Cuba is no paradise for Jamaica to emulate.”
A regular reader of my column shares a view of Cuba that is widespread in Jamaica. He is a retired police officer.
“Cuba sent troops to Southern Africa during the 1970-1980s to help liberate Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa from the satanic apartheid regime. Cuba lost men to the enemy. But the racists, recognizing that it would be a losing battle, stepped back, retreated, and gave the Africans their freedom.
“Today Cuba is under a different form of apartheid. To date, I have not heard one African country protest at the effort by the head thug in the White House to starve Cuba into submission. For what purpose? Submissions to the whims and fancies of the latest version of the Monroe Doctrine? African countries are apparently scared of Trump and his tariffs, and so they have also remained largely silent.
“The useless United Nations is also silent as the effort to starve Cuba into submission is being reinforced by the fuel blockade. The irony of all that's taking place is that it's being orchestrated by the Founder and Life Chairman of the so-called 'Board of Peace'.”
Journalist Ben Brodie writes, “The question is, what adjustments have been made to Jamaica’s long-standing arrangements with Cuba? What was the outcome of that high-level meeting between US officials and Holness, Audrey Marks and Rocky Meade?”
A part of the GOJ’s website states, ‘The situation highlights a delicate balancing act for the Holness administration, which seeks to maintain vital social services through Cuban cooperation while navigating foreign policy pressures from the United States.’ Diplomatic talk.
Broadly, it must be borne in mind that Trump uses cruelty and has made it guide his overall policy platforms. Add to that the fact that he derives extreme pleasure in seeing other people and nations in pain.
Editor's note:
Mark Wignall is a broadcaster and a columnist.
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