What is all of this now? Assassinations, uprisings and protests are all over the place. This is a bad time to be in leadership for the Caribbean/Central American region it appears.
We all know of the assassination of the Haitian president Jovenel Moise, as if no one saw something like that coming. *rolls eyes*
It’s hard to believe something like that was coordinated and carried out and no intelligence agency picked up on it to tell the Moise administration that he was in grave danger, at the very least.
I joked that the Biden administration may not have liked Moise, which may be true, because no way would they have let him die like that it they valued him. There is too much wiretaps and internet chatter tracking to have not picked up on something.
But, in the haze of the anger and discontent with Moise in Haiti to begin with, I guess made it harder to concentrate on the real threats versus the people out there just talking. But, several of the mercenaries have said that they had worked with the Drug Enforcement Agency and DEA paraphernalia was found on one of the masterminds.
Then we have the Cuban protests going on for the past several days now. All over Cuba and not just concentrated in Havana. I guess people see president Diaz-Canel as “not a Castro” and hence weak and can be bowled over, which I hope doesn’t backfire because he can, by the skin of his teeth, make it out of this season and turn out to be harder than any Castro ever was. This uprising too has US fingerprints all over it. This is what they do. No leader in this region gets by for too long without the US putting the clamps on him or her at one time or the other. You can believe in the Chinese and Russians all you want.
Then we have the issues in Colombia now. They too are protesting against the government. More than 50 people have died since a wave of protests started to sweep across Colombia at the end of April. The protests are all about corruption and against higher taxes.
Analysts claim that the protests are unlikely to fizzle out any time soon, because Colombian president Iván Duque Márquez is a proclaimed “centre-right” politician, which means he ain’t spending the money with the poor all that much. He believes in the free market. Good luck with that after the COVID-19 economic collapse. You had better find some money to put into the pockets of those people. Find your Marxism bone in your body, sir. Your political life may depend on it.
Which other country is on the teeter to spill out of control. Odds are it could be a Central American country again, we had the Nicaraguan government locking up opposition members and the US is calling a presidential aide to El Salvador’s president corrupt.
We will continue to monitor and keep you updated on any special changes.