Cuba

SOUTHCOM Commander Meets With Cuban Military Officials

Is this a betrayal of Cuban workers or proof that U.S. pressure on the regime is finally working?

MAY 31·Updated JUN 1

SOUTHCOM Commander Meets With Cuban Military Officials

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Above: Gen. Francis L. Donovan at the SOUTHCOM headquarters in Doral, Florida, on March 5. Image credit: Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

This meeting signals that U.S. pressure on Cuba's dictatorship is working. After Raúl Castro's formal indictment and CIA Director Ratcliffe's visit to Havana, Washington has further tightened the screws on the failing communist regime. With U.S. warships in Caribbean waters, this latest move reasserts a smart and firm foreign policy to dismantle totalitarian influence just 90 miles from Florida's coast.

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Establishment-critical narrative

This meeting is no peace gesture, quite the contrary. It looks like a backdoor to cutting deals that betray Cuban workers, while Washington's economic siege has already pushed the island into its worst humanitarian crisis since 1959. Any negotiated outcome risks handing the country's future to a bureaucratic elite willing to sell out to imperialist interests, just like Venezuela.

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