When Cuba is the argument: extraterritorial blockade, electoral fear and the omission that makes the comparison possible
Every time an election approaches in Colombia, the name Cuba surfaces in right-wing speeches with near-mechanical regularity, not as analysis but as warning, not as a description of a country but as a code word for possible catastrophe. “If the left wins, Colombia will become like Cuba.” The phrase works because very few people actually … CONTINUE READING →