Good-Cops & Bad-Cops Serve the Same Interests in the USA!
US Legacy of Terror & War Continues Against Cuban People!
It was surprising news that the US government would remove Cuba from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) in a statement made on January 14th, 2025, by the outgoing US President Joseph Biden, one of his final acts, six days before leaving the presidency. As part of an agreement to remove Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, the Vatican mediated a deal between the Cuban government and the Biden administration to release anti-government criminals, imprisoned for violating laws of the Cuban government.
Within six days of Biden’s order to remove Cuba from the list, his replacement and partner in crimes (of chaos, terrorism, and genocide), the current President of the U.S. imperialist empire, Donald Trump, did a ‘Good Cop – Bad Cop’, ‘Carrot & Stick’ tag-team switch against Cuba and its people, by re-instating Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list, on January 20, 2025. This ‘Bait & Switch’ tactic is a repeated policy & practice the U.S. government constantly uses against the people of Cuba.
One can see that this pattern continues the US government’s history and tradition of signing and later breaking agreements and treaties, including the treaty with the Delawares in 1778, the treaty of Washington in 1805, and the Treaty with the Sioux and Arapaho in 1868, to name a few. This has been a well-established pattern and practice employed since Europeans first arrived in the Western hemisphere in their encounters with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This was the foundation and beginning of the US government’s ‘Bait & Switch’, ‘Good Cop – Bad Cop’, ‘Carrot & Stick’ tactic. Trump first reversed Obama’s 2015 removal order and recently reversed Biden’s, continuing the use of this tactic in 2025.
Biden, Obama, and Trump, leaders of US capitalism and imperialism, all represent the same US government. The historical reality of US capitalism has taught us to recognize that ‘you are what you do, not what you say.’ Summarily, written agreements, treaties, or executive orders issued by the US government only offer an illusion of honesty, agreement, and truth. The Democratic and Republican leaders, as evidenced by their policy and objectives, serve the same interests and are effectively a one-party regime, the left & right cheeks of the same backside. To paraphrase WaBun-Inini (Vernon Bellecourt & Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), they speak with forked tongue, and every Indian treaty they wrote were the very treaties they broke.
This consistently contradictory policy and practice of the US government demonstrates that the exploited and oppressed people and our respective governments may never have permanent principled agreements with this evil empire. This contrary, anti-people behavior is expressed in their ongoing decisions to impose sanctions on 1/3rd of all countries, 60% of poor nations, and recent White House orders to sanction members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), January 28, 2025, for their decisions and efforts to hold Israel accountable for its state-sponsored genocide, forced population removal and land confiscation against the indigenous Palestinian people and their territory. The Biden and Trump administrations, and the US Congress continue funding & promoting genocide and meeting with Israeli war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu despite the ICC warrant issued for his arrest on charges of genocidal war crimes. On January 20, 2025, the US Trump led government ordered the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and is now sending indigenous peoples and/or their descendants, classified by US government agencies as illegal immigrants, from prisons within the U.S.A. to the US military prison installation at US occupied Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This is another violation of Cuba’s and its people’s sovereignty. Guantanamo belongs to Cuba and the Cuban people.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and its women’s organization, the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC), stand firmly with the People, the Communist Party, and the Government of Cuba and other nations of the world in demanding the total lifting of all unilateral blockades and sanctions which have injured and killed the Cuban people over the past 66 years.
We salute you the Cuban People, your Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), your Union of Young Communists (UJC), your Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), your ruling Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and your Cuban Government in your steadfast endurance, consistent resistance, revolutionary creativity, and sterling struggle against the world’s greatest purveyor of violence and corruption, which is US imperialism and its other partners of crimes against humanity: Capitalism, Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Settler-Colonialism, Zionism, Racism & Genocide.
The Struggles Continue,
