Tag: Caribbean


As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with the renowned writer, Ernest Hemingway.
Even as he underwrites and wages multiple wars, proposes a gargantuan $500 billion increase in military outlays, and plans to build his own Arc de Triomphe, President Donald Trump apparently believes himself to be a man of peace. He has become a classic example of historian Lord Acton’s dictum in action: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Siamo di fronte a un classico modus operandi degli Stati Uniti: molta pirotecnica, poca sostanza, zero pronostici.
Una delle notizie più “divertenti” è il ritorno della pirateria, inaugurata dagli Stati Uniti d’America all’inizio del 2026.

