{"id":400222,"date":"2019-03-19T01:49:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-cuba-be-canadas-next-target-after-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T01:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:49:44","slug":"will-cuba-be-canadas-next-target-after-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-cuba-be-canadas-next-target-after-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Cuba be Canada\u2019s Next Target After Venezuela?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cFirst we take Caracas then we take Havana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the thinking driving the Donald Trump administration\u2019s policy towards Venezuela, according to a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-push-to-oust-venezuelas-maduro-marks-first-shot-in-plan-to-reshape-latin-america-11548888252\">titled<\/a> \u201cU.S. Push to Oust Venezuela\u2019s Maduro Marks First Shot in Plan to Reshape Latin America.\u201d Adding credence to this thesis, last Monday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/11\/politics\/pompeo-venezuela-remarks\/index.html\">Cuba<\/a> is the true imperialist power in Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Washington\u2019s hope that toppling President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro could hasten the fall of Cuba\u2019s government, the Justin Trudeau government, which is supposed to have good relations with Havana, has played a central role in the US-led bid to oust Maduro. It has also echoed some of the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on Cuba\u2019s role in Venezuela. Why would a \u2018friend\u2019 of Cuba do this?<\/p>\n<p>While much is made of Ottawa\u2019s seemingly cordial relations with Havana, the reality is more complicated than often presented, as I <a href=\"http:\/\/rabble.ca\/blogs\/bloggers\/yves-engler\/2016\/11\/canada-and-castros-cuba-its-complicated\">detail here<\/a>. Most significantly, Canada has repeatedly aligned with US fear-mongering about the \u201cCuban menace\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Just days after the April 1961 CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker claimed the Cuban government was a threat to the security of the hemisphere and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=TRs_t6fhyX4C&amp;pg=PA115&amp;lpg=PA115&amp;dq=Cuba+were+%E2%80%9Cmanifestations+of+a+dictatorship+which+is+abhorrent+to+free+men+everywhere.%E2%80%9D&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=SL9Pj7EL3l&amp;sig=ACfU3U0QETY_WL0lCxSPgLnKjRm00aICwQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwipsd7mrf3gAhUOo4MKHd7eCC8Q6AEwAHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=Cuba%20were%20%E2%80%9Cmanifestations%20of%20a%20dictatorship%20which%20is%20abhorrent%20to%20free%20men%20everywhere.%E2%80%9D&amp;f=false\">a dictatorship<\/a> which is abhorrent to free men everywhere.\u201d Two years later Ottawa\u2019s representative to a NATO ministerial meeting was tasked with saying, \u201cthe Canadian government, of course, holds no&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/will-cuba-be-canadas-next-target-after-venezuela\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst we take Caracas then we take Havana.\u201d That\u2019s the thinking driving the Donald Trump administration\u2019s policy towards Venezuela, according to a Wall Street Journal story titled \u201cU.S. Push to Oust Venezuela\u2019s Maduro Marks First Shot in Plan to Reshape Latin America.\u201d Adding credence to this thesis, last Monday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}