By Peter Polack

Peter Polack

The president of the USA has indicated his intention to pardon the convicted drug trafficker and ex president of Honduras. He has also threatened to cut off aid to that poverty stricken country if his preferred candidate does not win the next election.

President Trump has also massed warships off Venezuela and declared the skies of Venezuela closed to air traffic. He wants the Maduro regime to end. No one wants to support an autocrat in any country especially one aligned with Russia. Perhaps that explains the pervasive ostrich silence in the Caribbean and Central America. Even revolutionary Nicaragua is silent, but there time is coming.

Perhaps it is a new way of ending the tenure of autocrats. Maybe Russia is next?

The President is employing the aged Monroe doctrine to enforce his preferences for rulers in the Americas by military and other force. Others will follow.

Some Caribbean countries are noticeably quiet while others like Trinidad are a cheering section and support arm. The people of Trinidad and Guyana are completely quiet. No opposition, court cases, protests or recall petitions. So there must be implied agreement by the masses. The street, business community, professionals and academia have all been silenced from afar.  Carnival will be a mockery next year. Where is Sparrow when he is most needed.

Eric Williams now forgotten.

We must all prepare to be the vassals of a new feudal system which seems to have no end. Everyone in blind and deaf in lockstep for the new world paradigm.

Simon Bolivar is not turning but spinning in his tomb.

Things happen, governments change and wars happen or seem to have no end. The entire world direction is up in the air, only moved by the whim of old men.

It is what it is.


Notes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kpm0rvxepohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/honduras-vote-election-trump-threat-cut-aid-if-nasry-tito-asfura-loses
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-trump-is-reviving-the-monroe-doctrine-with-military-activities-in-the/

Peter Polack is a former criminal lawyer from the Cayman Islands for several decades. His books are The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War (2013), Jamaica, The Land of Film (2017) and Guerrilla Warfare: Kings of Revolution (2019). He was a contributor to Encyclopedia of Warfare (2013). His latest book is a compendium of Russian espionage activities with almost five hundred Soviet spies expelled from nearly 100 countries worldwide 1940-88. 

His views are his own.