At present, Donald Trump is treating Latin
America as the US’s back yard and he is acting like an imperialist on steroids.
He has gone out of his way to harass Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolás
Maduro. For all we know he
may have plans to send in the troops any day now. He seems to be going after
all of Latin America’s socialist governments.[1] He has sanctioned Nicaragua in an
attempt to harass that country’s Sandinista leader. Now he is trying to destroy
Cuba with frivolous law suits. The Barack Obama administration had softened up
US treatment of Cuba only to have everything undone by this mad man in the US
Whitehouse.
- សតិវ អតុ
“Coercion, whether military or economic, must never be used to seek
a change in government in a sovereign state,” said Idriss Jazairy. “The use of sanctions by
outside powers to overthrow an elected government is in violation of all norms
of international law.” That includes the Charter of the Organization of American States and the Charter
of Economic Rights and Duties of States.
From Truthout:
Trump may give
current U.S. citizens standing to sue in U.S. courts even if they were Cuban
citizens when the Cuban government nationalized their property after the 1959
Revolution. They would be able to bring lawsuits against U.S. and foreign
companies that allegedly profit from the nationalized properties.
In accordance
with international law, the Cuban government had offered compensation to U.S.
nationals for the taking of their property, as I explain below. If Trump
permits myriad new lawsuits to proceed, it would unleash a tsunami of
litigation that would harm U.S. companies and punish the Cuban people even
more.
For 59 years,
the United States has maintained a cruel embargo against Cuba. “The embargo on
Cuba is the most comprehensive set of U.S. sanctions on any country, including
the other countries designated by the U.S. government to be state sponsors of
terrorism — Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria,” according
to the U.S. government.
In 1960, the
Eisenhower administration declared a partial embargo on trade with Cuba in an
attempt to pressure Cuba to change its form of government. The embargo was
prompted by a secret State Department memorandum that
proposed “a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as
possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to
decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and
overthrow of government.”
For the rest click here.
A Cuban supporter waves a Cuban flag in front
of the country's embassy after it re-opened for the first time in 54 years July
20, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
[1] I realize these countries may not be true socialism, but that is beside the point. Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela are outside of the US capitalist, imperialist system and they should be allowed to experiment with their own versions of socialism or their own perception of it.
No comments:
Post a Comment