I want to be Cuban in this col­umn, but I do not know if I am up to the task. I want to par­tic­i­pate in my coun­try’s eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment by im­port­ing from and ex­port­ing to the rest of the world, but 45/47 is stand­ing mas­sive­ly in the way.

In plain day­light, he has tak­en con­trol of all of Venezuela’s gas and oil and de­prived me of the ship­ments that would have sus­tained my elec­tric­i­ty grid and giv­en me the en­er­gy to over­come the wide­spread black­outs that are dark­en­ing my land and send­ing me back to prim­i­tive times.

This ter­ror­ist has im­posed sanc­tions on me and block­ad­ed me, pre­vent­ing me from trad­ing in the US dol­lar with my Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­can neigh­bours, with whom I have done busi­ness for long years.

Crit­i­cal trade­able sup­plies, in­clud­ing med­i­cines, have fall­en out of the win­dow, and these neigh­bours are even be­ing barred from the trade of health­care and ed­u­ca­tion­al pro­fes­sion­als. The ter­ror­ist squeezes Cu­ba with sanc­tions and block­ades, then turns around and calls us ‘a failed state’.

To com­pound mat­ters, 45/47 is speak­ing facile­ly and dis­mis­sive­ly of ‘tak­ing’ Cu­ba if and when­ev­er he wants–but af­ter he’s done with Iran. For him, the Cuban Rev­o­lu­tion doesn’t mat­ter. Cuban sov­er­eign­ty doesn’t mat­ter. The Unit­ed Na­tions Char­ter and its in­ter­na­tion­al rules gov­ern­ing the con­duct of the na­tions of the world don’t mat­ter.

What mat­ters is Amer­i­ca’s con­trol of the world; every­body else is sub­or­di­nate.

Regime change in Venezuela, Iran, and soon Cu­ba, Cana­da, Mex­i­co, and Green­land. That’s how he will make Amer­i­ca ‘great again’—by war and regime change. In ad­di­tion to the weapon­i­sa­tion of the Amer­i­can dol­lar, the sanc­tions, the tar­iffs, and dic­ta­tor­ship of the of­fice of the Pres­i­dent.

The ter­ror­ist tells us he will take Cu­ba, and all the na­tions of the world sit back and wait for him to do it. The coun­tries of Eu­rope. The coun­tries of Asia. The coun­tries of the con­ti­nent of Amer­i­ca. The coun­tries of Africa. The coun­try of Aus­tralia. The is­land na­tions of the Caribbean. They all sit back and do noth­ing. They do not even say any­thing against the bar­bar­i­ties of 45/47. Their strate­gic si­lence is stun­ning in its lack of in­tegri­ty.

How do you build a civ­il, hope­ful world if you re­main silent in the face of the clear abuse of one id­i­ot­ic man?

Here is what he has to say on Cu­ba in this month of March 2026 alone. For the record, I have tak­en these ab­sur­di­ties from DeepSeek:

1. “I do be­lieve … hav­ing the ho­n­our of tak­ing Cu­ba. That’s a big ho­n­our. Tak­ing Cu­ba in some form.” [Re­marks to re­porters, March 16.]

2. “I mean, whether I free it, take it. Think I can do any­thing I want with it. You want to know the truth. [Re­marks to re­porters, March 16.]

3. “Can’t tell you that [ie, if the ac­tion would be a seizure or mil­i­tary cam­paign.] I can tell you they are talk­ing to us.”

4. “It is a failed na­tion. They have no mon­ey, they have no oil, they have no noth­ing.” [Re­ports to re­porters, March 16, 2026.]

5. “It’s a beau­ti­ful is­land, great weath­er.” [Re­marks to re­porters, March 16, 2026.]

6. “They are not in a hur­ri­cane zone, which is nice for a change, you know.”

7. “There will be no more oil or mon­ey go­ing to Cu­ba–ze­ro. I strong­ly sug­gest they make a deal be­fore it is too late.” [Post on Truth So­cial, March 3, 2026.]

8. “Sounds good to me.” [In re­sponse on Truth So­cial to a sug­ges­tion that Mar­co Ru­bio could be­come Cu­ba’s next leader, March 15, 2026.]

9. “Cu­ba al­so wants to make a deal, and I think we will pret­ty soon ei­ther make a deal or do what­ev­er we have to do. We’re talk­ing to Cu­ba, but we’re go­ing to do Iran be­fore Cu­ba.”

Clear ab­sur­di­ties. The world stands by and lets him do what he wants. For me, as a Cuban and a child of Cuban hopes and dreams, the man is not on­ly a ter­ror­ist, but a child, a lit­tle child. A shame­less Amer­i­ca needs to get rid of him. But alas, Con­gress is so patent­ly weak and use­less.

A shame­less world needs to get rid of him. Please help me, the Cuban.

Win­ford James is a re­tired UWI lec­tur­er who has been analysing is­sues in ed­u­ca­tion, lan­guage, de­vel­op­ment, and pol­i­tics in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and the wider Caribbean on ra­dio and TV since the 1970s. He has al­so writ­ten thou­sands of columns for all the ma­jor news­pa­pers in the coun­try.