Noam Chomsky Says US Turned to Cuba Due to Increasing Isolation

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/31401-noam-chomsky-says-us-turned-to-cuba-due-to-increasing-isolation

Chomsky said the fourth Summit of the Americas of 2012 in Colombia was a major turning point for the United States, as it saw itself along with Canada, completely marginalized from all the crucial issues being debated, including Cuba.

“As the summit in Panama (April 2015) neared, something had to be done because the United States face the possibility of being excluded from the hemisphere all together,” he said in an exclusive interview with the leftist Mexican newspaper.

The U.S. political commentator and writer said it “was then that Barack Obama dramatically preached that the United States policies to take democracy and human rights to Cuba had not worked.”

He added that at that point, President Obama decided new measures and strategies had to be implemented in the case of Cuba in order for Washington to achieve its objectives, and therefore decided out of convenience to allow Cuba “escape, slightly, from international isolation.”

So, the change of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba was the result of the notable changes occurring in Latin America in the last few years, which isolated Washington more and more from its own “back yard,” forcing them to change their position regarding the island nation, Chomsky said.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Latin American countries were demanding Cuba be included in summits,

organizations, etc. More and more the US was becoming out of step with the whole of the Western Hemisphere.

What really would have happened if the US had refused to budge on this issue? We saw the countries starting to build their own regional organizations during the Bush occupancy of the White House, even setting up their own bank, to avoid dependency on US-controlled financial institutions. They were picking up speed, and strength, and identity.

It's wonderful having the chance to see what Chomsky had to say about this. Thank you, very much.

[brush]

2. Good to have a president who's not a winger idealogue with dug in heels. nt