At present, Donald Trump is treating Latin America as the US’s back yard and he is acting like an imperialist on steroids. He has gone out of his way to harass Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolás Maduro. For all we know he may have plans to send in the troops any day now. He seems to be going after all of Latin America’s socialist governments. He has sanctioned Nicaragua in an attempt to harass that country’s Sandinista leader. Now he is trying to destroy Cuba with frivolous law suits. The Barack Obama administration had softened up US treatment of Cuba only to have everything undone by this mad man in the US Whitehouse. If Trump sends troops to Venezuela, it should expose all those Latin American governments that are supporting Trumps disrespectful treatment of a sovereign Southern Neighbor as the traitors to imperialism that they are. As stated in this article:
-SJ Otto
“Coercion, whether military or economic, must never be used to seek a change in government in a sovereign state,” said Jazairy. “The use of sanctions by outside powers to overthrow an elected government is in violation of all norms of international law.” That includes the Charter of the Organization of American States and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States.
From Truthout:
Trump may give current U.S. citizens standing to sue in U.S. courts even if they were Cuban citizens when the Cuban government nationalized their property after the 1959 Revolution. They would be able to bring lawsuits against U.S. and foreign companies that allegedly profit from the nationalized properties.
In accordance with international law, the Cuban government had offered compensation to U.S. nationals for the taking of their property, as I explain below. If Trump permits myriad new lawsuits to proceed, it would unleash a tsunami of litigation that would harm U.S. companies and punish the Cuban people even more.
For 59 years, the United States has maintained a cruel embargo against Cuba. “The embargo on Cuba is the most comprehensive set of U.S. sanctions on any country, including the other countries designated by the U.S. government to be state sponsors of terrorism — Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria,” according to the U.S. government.
In 1960, the Eisenhower administration declared a partial embargo on trade with Cuba in an attempt to pressure Cuba to change its form of government. The embargo was prompted by a secret State Department memorandum that proposed “a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”
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