The US wants regime change in Cuba. But Havana’s European friends have deserted it too | Paul Taylor

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According to The Guardian’s linked item, The US wants regime change in Cuba. But Havana’s European friends have deserted it too | Paul Taylor, Spain led the opposition to Trump’s Iran war, but on the Cuba blockade, the challenge is absent For many Europeans of my generation, Cuba was as much a progressive cause as a country. In our selectively idealistic student days (mine were in the mid-1970s), it was a plucky little country that had overthrown a corrupt regime in cahoots with the US mafia. In a popular revolution led by the charismatic Fidel Castro and iconic guerrilla leader Che Guevara, it then withstood a crippling US economic embargo to defend its independence. Hasta la victoria siempre! (Ever onwards to victory!) Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre Continue reading…

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