True, Cuba doesn't fit the model Caribbean nation I describe, they fought hard to keep it that way and very few recognize the sacrifice. Especially after 1990 Cubans became extremely lonely in a hostile remote controlled world. Whether Venezuela assisted and shared can also be explained in also trying to rub-off a bit of revolutionary character and share some of the solidarity of the global left (what is left out of the left). Unfortunately rubbing goes both ways, with tourism being passed to Canadian and Euro exploiters within a mixed Cuban economy.
Those tiny little oases of resistance in the dried up rock called earth seem to have been an immediate goal of the empire, as most is never enough for them. The notion of #Brics as a new form of resisting the Hydra seems to be evaporating as Trump's dozer moves on. What will be next for totalitarianism, human/political rights of communities within controlled states?
I do like to split things in elements, more than summarize them as a single entity. The US state inwards, the US military machine outwards, and the federated western capital are not exactly one. So everything above this needs to be re-examined through this triple lens.
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