Settling scores in the Caribbean

THE EDITOR, Madam:

There has been much punditry about the deeper reasons for the American incursion into Venezuela and the arrest of their president. As one oil company executive put it, they would be uninterested in a venture with Venezuela given that their assets had been seized twice before by that country.

That posture is understandable.

Only communists and socialists are interested in seizing or nationalising private property for their particular political dialectic. The excesses of Caribbean leftists, including Cuba and Grenada, are coming home to roost. The Cuban family of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio likely bore the brunt of state excesses. Many US corporations and citizens lost their property in Cuba without compensation.

They are not alone.

Therein lies one reason for American activity in the Caribbean, the settling of scores for the seizure of American property or anti-American activities. Former members of the Cuban-aligned Peoples Revolutionary Government of Grenada must be nervous as President Trump is dealing death and destruction to his foes in the region by a thousand cuts.

It is now Western Hemisphere 2.0.

PETER POLACK