It seems like the U.S. used regulatory lawfare to distress the Canadian mining firm Sherritt (which operates a joint venture with Cuba), then initiated a hostile takeover by a Trump-allied single-family officeโall within the context of an attempted regime change operation.
@BTnewsroom Also on the list, a mining company that runs a joint venture with an Australian firm.
Anyone want to guess how long it will take before a Trump ally steps in with a lowball offer to buy out the Australians?
Minera La Victoria, which runs a joint venture with the Australian mining firm Antilles Gold, is on the latest list of Cuban sanctions.
The Trump administration is about to run the same play they did with the Canadian mining firm Sherritt: distress and dispossess.
For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism. The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third-worldist movements across our hemisphere and beyond. Today, we are targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba's subversive and radical operations.
Pursuant to sanctions authorities created by President Trumpโs groundbreaking Cuba Executive Order, I am designating the following entities:
1. Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (MINFAR)
2. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
3. Amistur Cuba S.A.
4. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
5. Minera La Victoria S.A.
Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of sanctions themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities.
The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes in our hemisphere seeking to threaten U.S. national security and engage in influence operations to export their poisonous and evil โrevolutionโ to our country and around the world.
@dvaldesnyc@HexPositive Trump will direct the treasury to issue OFAC licenses to his buddies, with the understanding that the Trump family will buy the properties once he is out of office.
Miami is not a monolith. Gladys Canizares left #Cuba alone at 15, sent to the U.S. through Operation Pedro Pan. Years later in Miami, she became an organizer in the hardline Cuban American lobby. Today, she's one of the loudest voices to end the embargo she once defended.
Explaining what a โdeductibleโ and โout of pocket maximumโ is to reactionary expats who moved to the U.S. from countries with socialized healthcare and watching the look of horror on their face as it dawns on them that the socialists back home were right all along.
Rural workers in Bolivia have seized an oil field in the Santa Cruz region and halted all production, as part of the general strike against neoliberalism.
The site, in the Santa Rosa del Sara municipality, is now fully offline.
Stakes couldnโt be higher for the Colombian and Peruvian elections.
If right-wing proxies control all of the Andes, including its mineral bounty and port infrastructure, the wealth from the impending commodity super-cycle will flow disproportionately to the US and Canada.
@DropSiteNews Watch who swoops in to buy these assets. Trump ally Gillon Capital is a real estate speculator based in Texas and they have already put together a term sheet to acquire majority share in Sherritt. Picking up hotels from Blue Diamond or Iberostar makes a lot of sense for them.
@DropSiteNews The US is going to distress more foreign assets and send Trump allies in to scoop them up at fire sale prices. OFAC waivers will be granted. And little by little the Cuban state will be bought up by America. How they intend to manage joint ventures with Cuba is anyoneโs guess.
โSo whatโs your take?โ
โCuba should belong to a handful of sugar and tobacco plantations, nickel and cobalt mining interests, real estate speculators, casino and resort owners.โ
โ100% disagree.โ
Weโve suspected that the U.S. was targeting innocent fishermen for months, but to have it confirmed is wild.
In a just world, Congress would repeal the ASPA in 2028 and Pete Hegseth would wind up in The Hague for this.
Kaine grills Rubio on the "targeting criteria" for blowing up boats around the Caribbean, which Kaine says don't include the actual presence of narcotics on boats
@atrupar Rubio really believed Trump had the discipline to focus his foreign policy exclusively on the Americas and that within months he would be posted up in Havana smoking a cigar and enjoying a cafecito. He did not count on the Iran war happening and being completely sidelined.
@evoespueblo For decades, reactionaries manufactured or papered over crises to take on loans from multilateral development banks allied with the US.
Bolivia has shown the Majority World that this strategy will no longer be accepted by the people.