Sheldon Richman on the US's Latest Misguided Effort at Subverting the Cuban Government
When he saw the headline about the U.S. government and Cuba in his newspaper the other day, Sheldon Richman thought he'd awoken in 1961. It was a Twilight Zone moment for sure: "U.S. program aimed to stir dissent in Cuba." But it was 2014. The AP news report said President Barack Obama and his administration had plotted to incite a popular uprising — to "gin up opposition" — against the Cuban government by sending in young Latin Americans masquerading as tourists and health workers. The U.S. government's 53-year-long campaign for regime change in Cuba is a perfect failure. Repeated efforts to spark an anti-Castro revolution or to kill the revolutionary-turned-dictator did nothing but strengthen the government's power. Richman asks whether the Obama administration learned anything from those failures
