Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸

US-LatAm foreign policy analysis. Credits: @newrepublic, @jacobin, @RStatecraft, @NACLA, and @asiatimesonline

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

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 office—all within the context of an attempted regime change operation.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@sovietwithsazon Invite a chaperone along, problem solved

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@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?

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

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.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

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 Trump’s 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 “revolution” to our country and around the world.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@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.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@missmayn Her name is Lucy Calkins.

[Cuban Americans For Cuba @Cubans4Cuba]

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.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

Explaining what a “deductible” and “out of pocket maximum” 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.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@DropSiteNews Meanwhile, Rubio wants you to believe that Cuba is a rogue state.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

Bolivia, where Spanish colonists invented transnational capitalism in the 1500s, is once again showing the world how to dismantle it.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

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.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

Stakes couldn’t 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.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@DropSiteNews Somehow, oil futures will drop on this news.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@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.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@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 anyone’s guess.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

“So what’s your take?”

“Cuba should belong to a handful of sugar and tobacco plantations, nickel and cobalt mining interests, real estate speculators, casino and resort owners.”

“100% disagree.”

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@HexPositive Find someone roughly the same age staring off into space at a hardware store.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

We’ve 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.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

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

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@atrupar This is what I look like when they ask me to leave the pinball bar after chasing the high score on the Addams Family machine for three hours.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@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.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@atrupar The Senate is the most dangerous nursing home in the world.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

@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.