Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
On Monday, the U.S. State Department published a post that has caused concern among governments and analysts worldwide, not only for what it declares, but for the shamelessness with which the Trump Administration exposes its doctrine with a tone that is part bully, part Western outlaw, and part delusional with powers.
"This is our hemisphere," reads the text accompanied by an image of Trump in one of his poses.
He threatens, blockades, steals, attacks Venezuela and kidnaps its president; he threatens Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico. He shamelessly and without evidence claims Petro is a drug lord, that the Cartel of the Suns exists (only to be refuted in the very "accusation against Maduro"), or that Claudia Sheinbaum is "afraid of the cartels" and that he might also enter that country.
A friend of pedophiles – hundreds of thousands of Epstein case files remain unpublished after selective and heavily censored releases – he commands a cabinet of supremacists and ultra-conservatives, climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and close activists of the Zionist lobby, the arms industry, and oil companies.
He pardoned Capitol assailants and the drug-trafficking former President Juan Orlando Hernández while intervening with impunity in Honduras' electoral process. He approves of Netanyahu's pardon and not only gave him weapons for genocide but is toying with the idea of a real estate business on land soaked in Palestinian blood. He militarizes cities, violates not only international law but U.S. law. And he celebrates it. He also believes in a third term.
“This is our hemisphere,” says Trump, deified by a cabal of hawks and haters of migrants and Latinos.
Those who raise their heads will be threatened. Those who echo him and support his Monroeist and decadent crusade must never raise theirs. He does not recognize even thinking and independent allies, only compliant servants.
That is the dilemma facing an administration that rewards the worst of the United States and crushes, disqualifies, and obstructs the best. And it is a dilemma not only for this hemisphere: either stand up to the "king" who loves gold and oil and others' resources, or get on board and conform to his unhinged vision of the world as a building constructed erratically and on a whim, which will not hold. The world is too big and complex to be one of his models. He has no tools other than threat and force. He destroys while claiming to build. It is decay disguised as power.
Those who serve today could be attacked tomorrow: that is the risk of opening certain doors for short-term interests or mere nonsense, ignoring principles that arose, precisely, from the experience of the horror sown by fascist barbarism and war.
It wants it to be. They want it. But this is not their hemisphere, nor is this their world. (Text and Photo: Cubadebate)
