US 'Humanitarian Intervention' Leaves Cubans 'Scared and Nervous'
Bloomberg offers a deeply empathetic dive into the Cuban psyche, noting their 'high alert' status after the US 'operation' to arrest Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela killed 32 members of Cuban security services. The article frames this as a fresh blow to morale. One might think such an intervention is an anomaly, a sudden turn in US foreign policy, rather than the latest chapter in a long, storied
history of US 'nation-building' via regime change in Latin America. After all, the US has merely orchestrated coups, funded paramilitaries, and imposed devastating sanctions across the region since the Monroe Doctrine made it its personal backyard. Ignoring over a century of direct and indirect US interventions that have destabilized, exploited, and often brutalized Latin American nations—from the
United Fruit Company's influence in Guatemala to the Bay of Pigs—is a neat trick. The fear isn't new; it's a deeply ingrained, entirely rational response to perpetual interference. The 'moral' of the story, as told by Bloomberg, is the plight of the Cubans. The actual moral, evident to anyone who reads history, is that US foreign policy often equates 'stability' with convenient subservience, and
the 'scared and nervous' are just collateral in the pursuit of 'democracy' – or, more accurately, resource extraction and geopolitical control. How many generations must live in fear before the pattern is undeniable even to mainstream outlets?