Cuba Was Never “the Next One”: the United States Is Betting on a Slow Asphyxiation of Castroism by 2029

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When the United States captured Nicolás Maduro in his room at Fuerte Tiuna in Caracas, many people took out a seemingly simple account: in politics, as in medicine, evil is cut from its roots, and if they first went against Chavismo, the second was to go against Castroism. But it has not happened, at least not in those terms. When U.S. Navy ships have been sighted hovering the waters of the Caribbean, those same people have thought that now, tha…