Posted on 04/21/2019 3:26:02 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In exchange for subsidized Venezuelan oil and preferential loans, Cuba has exported its police state to Venezuela. Now Havana must pay for its allegiances.
Cuba is a one-party state...Despite the regime’s historically poor record on human rights and the rule of law, many foreign countries have given an undue preference to commercial engagement. Those profitable business arrangements have enriched the junta and provided little incentive to improve its bad behavior.
There is a clear, international consensus regarding the status of Maduro and the future of Venezuela. Fifty-four countries, including Canada and twenty-four members of the European Union, no longer view the Maduro regime as legitimate. Instead, they have established diplomatic relations with interim President Juan Guaido.
These nations have engaged in extensive diplomatic efforts—individually and in multilateral forums—to get Maduro to relinquish control. They have also implemented individual and sectoral sanctions against his regime...Yet these enlightened policies stand at odds with their commercial and trade practices with Maduro’s enablers in Havana.
Looking at the dynamics in Venezuela and the broader region, these policies announced by Bolton are both necessary and timely. At no other point in history has there been a broader, more forward leaning coalition willing to address the Maduro regime. The Venezuela crisis has created Latin America’s worst humanitarian and economic crisis. Continuing to enrich and enable Maduro’s allies in Havana will foster decisive change in Caracas.
Countries with foreign firms in Cuba must consider the consequences of this “engagement.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
Good. That is what is needed.
It seems that addressing the underlying cash flows is a trademark of the Trump Administration - with China, North Korea, as part of the Mid-East Peace Plan, or with bad actors in our own hemisphere.
Its a powerful tool, and a lot cheaper for us than using our military.
Excellent. Cuba is behind all of this, and VZ is stuffed with Cuban military and administrators.
Obama weeps.
Iranian, Syrian, Russian and then the Cubans. Historically, Cuban basically educates the dentists (horribile) doctors, etc.
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