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Don’t underestimate the madman. The more trouble he is in, the more he will roll the dice.
The Trump administration’s playbook for Cuba is clear: intensify the hardship and suffering to such an extreme degree of economic collapse and crisis that there will be an uprising. If that doesn’t succeed, then we can expect a military intervention along the lines of what occurred in Venezuela.
While the United States often claims the Cuban government violates the human rights of its citizens, it is the U.S. that is perpetrating human rights violations that threaten the lives and basic welfare of Cubans.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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