Retired Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson believes the U.S. is going backwards when it comes to Latin America. According to the Havana Note, he recently told a crowd at the University of North Carolina:
We've been tossed out of Venezuela. We've been tossed out of Bolivia. We're despised in Argentina. Honduras and Guatemala hold their noses when they deal with us.But, says Wilkerson, a self-professed conservative, the next American president can begin to turn things around for the U.S. in Latin America by doing one thing: Renew economic ties with Cuba.
The Chinese are going to drill for oil within 60 miles of the coast of Florida; Russia just landed Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers in Venezuela and Russia contemplates building a space launch facility in Cuba...
We're barely tolerated in Mexico and puzzled over in Brazil...
Establishing more or less, más o menos, normal relations with Cuba—after more than a century and a half of paternalistic/imperialistic behavior toward Havana—would be such a stunning signal to the rest of Latin America, that all manner of positive changes throughout the hemisphere might be possible in its wake.
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I wonder what they have in Cuba that Wilkerson is so eager to get; or what they have on Wilkerson in Cuba that Wilkerson is so anxious that nobody should get. I should not be surprised if it were the same thing that keeps Wayne Smith marching to Havana's tune.
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