Jamaica Abandons Cuba while Cuba Starves
Jamaica's Two-faced of Cuba
Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
This is why I oppose with all the vitriol of a penitent representative government: who are they to divorce the Jamaican people from their history of standing firm?
How could they have made Jamaica a country that received 50 years of Cuban generosity and genius, and now they are being starved, Jamaica abandons them?
I will speak as did St Paul who told the disciples that they walked with Christ, but he was a better Christian. We are all better Jamaicans who voted against the embargo.
We gained this spirit not only from Dutty, Garvey and Marley and but from our Jamaican teachers…whom we adored. Now psychologically, it’s impossible to see Jamaica in their light!
Jamaica cannot now claim Bob Marley or Marcus Garvey…for they laid a moral track from which this shift in policy divides so bluntly.
Suppose you say Jamaica was caught in a “moral squeeze”…let’s say Jamaica opposes the illegal embargo (which surely it must) and yet, Jamaica also opposes the Cuban regime.
Fair enough: but where is Jamaica’s blueprint for a new Cuba which was presented to and rejected by the regime? Where are the forty 40 foot containers of relief for the Cuban people…to show them both appreciation for all they’ve given Jamaica in lives saved and to demonstrate that the abstention is not against the Cuban people?
If Jamaica of all places can’t stand up for Cuba, given Jamaica’s history and can’t show more subtly in its reactionary fever to fling itself into the arms of Trinidad….then what can Jamaica defend.
