Plot to kill Cuba

THERE was more than a hint of trepidation when Donald Trump declared last week that he would not attend his firstborn son’s wedding because he was too caught up in matters of state, including the paused assault against Iran. It wouldn’t be out of character, claimed an American wit, for Trump to invade Cuba as an excuse for avoiding the matrimonial festivities. There was also speculation that the latest Gulf war might resume — which indeed partially occurred on Monday, albeit with no Iranian response until the time of writing, and despite the flurry of diplomatic activity. Nothing new happened on the Cuban front either, but Cuba’s status as the next target for trumped-up imperialism remains intact. Last week’s revelation of a facetious indictment against Raúl Castro over Cuba’s defensive action against the invasion of its airspace by a CIA-sponsored entity suggested that the Trump regime might be planning to re-establish its hegemony over the island by kidnapping its former president in an operation akin to the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. It’s more than likely that Fidel Castro would have been the primary target, had he not died 10 years ago. His birth centenary will be celebrated in August. Raúl turns 95 next week. It wouldn’t be surprising if he has no intention of being captured alive by the North American monster Cuba has been confronted with since long before its transformative 1959 revolution. In the early years of the revolution, Raúl and his comrade-in-arms Ernesto Guevara came across as more inclined towards communism than Fidel, whose youthful past lay in the student wing of a bourgeois-democratic party. The latter was briefly seen as someone the US could do business with. Once the revolutionary government shut down US-owned casinos and bordellos, and nationalised properties belonging to US MNCs, the mood changed. By the time the likes of Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and Ma...

Original source: Dawn Pakistan