The recent statements of the White House Special Envoy for Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone, before the World Affairs Council in Miami, evidence Washington's sustained hostility towards Havana.
To questions from moderator Aaron Rosen, a representative of the Miami World Affairs Council, and others in the audience, Claver-Carone laid out the broad outlines of the current administration's plan against Cuba.
In an often festive tone, as if addressing the cameras of a television talk show, the "Trump hawk," as some already call him, flaunted his animosity toward the people of the Island.
"What did I learn? In 2019, the politics was maximum pressure, but we never got to the point of maximum pressure, not even 50%. There was a big pile of things that could be done," Carone asserted.
It seems his arsenal of nastiness is inexhaustible. As he explained, there is a marked difference between the current scenario and the one that existed during the previous Trump administration (2016-2020).
"There are clearly no disagreements. We have a Treasury Department that fully understands the threat; and we have a Defense Department that understands that security in the region is a priority," he enunciated.
Worthy of a Machiavellian character, stripped of any moral reference, he asserted that, as a businessman, he believes that one should invest in "short-term pain for long-term gain", rather than bet on "long-term pain and no gain".
And then he threatened, "So we have to go all in. That's my biggest lesson. I work with a Secretary of State who thinks the same way, a President who understands these priorities, and the goal is to get it done."
On other insinuations expressed by the official to the press -recall the interview granted to site Político about implementing "creative approaches" to facilitate a political change in Cuba-, he said: "The transition in Cuba is not only inevitable, but probably imminent. I think we can be very creative. Very creative.
Of course, the aforementioned ratified that criterion and responded, as is usual in smear campaigns, by blaming the victim for the crimes of the executioner.
He lied about the events of Mariel in 1980, about migration issues, a painful issue used by successive U.S. administrations against the island.
Claver-Carone resorts to Trump's anti-immigrant narrative and, to prove his point, uses fallacies about the Aragua Train against Venezuela, in addition to threatening the President's doctrine of force in international relations.
However, he enters into flagrant contradiction with his boss, because he knows well that the policy of maximum pressure, the limitation of visas and legal emigration, as well as any breach of the migratory agreements between both nations, may generate a considerable increase in illegal departures to the U.S..
Of the forms of the blockade today, which exists, which is not a justification of the Cuban government, Mauricio himself has been in charge of demonstrating it in his boastfulness: "we have been able to create new efficient mechanisms to be more surgical in Cuba towards economic sectors of the regime".
However, nothing of what the "creative" Carone said was original; on the contrary, it seems that he read and repackaged what was written in the nefarious memorandum of April 6, 1960, 65 years ago, which revealed the foundations of the genocidal policy of the U.S. government against Cuba, to be signed by Lester Carone. to weaken the economic life of Cuba (...) to reduce its financial resources and real wages, to provoke hunger, desperation and the overthrow of Fidel Castro".
Thus, the anti-Cuban "flamethrower", as the executive director of Engage Cuba, James Williams, once called him, launched himself from the first minute to effectively fulfill his dreams of destroying the Cuban Revolution.
Once again, he ignores the people, their history and their values. He persists in the war of pressure, because he knows that sustaining it entails financing and, of course, without those funds there would be no political career for any of them.
