Rubio says the US prioritizes the continent, but the obsession with Cuba could alienate its neighbors.

Analysis by Patrick Oppmann, CNN Latin American and Caribbean heads of state have long complained that most US administrations treat the region as an afterthought. But now that the Western Hemisphere is under the Trump administration's scrutiny, ranging from migration to drug and human trafficking, those same leaders may be longing for the old days of relative indifference. US administration officials have begun referring to the Caribbean as Ame…

Analysis: Rubio says he is putting ‘Americas, first’ but the Cuba fixation might drive neighbors away

Heads of state in Latin America and the Caribbean have long complained that the region is treated as an after-thought by most US administrations.

Two days after a trip of only three stops — Jamaica, Guyana and Suriname — during which the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wanted to cover a lot and hardly squeezed anything, the 25th meeting of the ALBA-TCP Political Council confirmed the autonomous and unitary vocation of the sister islands of the Caribbean, and confirmed the few lauries of a trip of a lot of hype and saucers in the announcements, but with few final transcendences.

Rubio says he is putting ‘Americas, first’ but the Cuba fixation might drive neighbors away

Heads of state in Latin America and the Caribbean have long complained that the region is treated as an after-thought by most US administrations. But now that the Western Hemisphere is under the microscope from the Trump administration from everything from migration to drug smuggling to human trafficking, those same leaders may be missing the old days of relative benign neglect. US administration officials have taken to referring to the Caribbea…