Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“For months, the Trump administration has aimed various types of punishing force at the regime in Havana to free the Cuban people: An oil blockade. Criminal charges against the dominant leader, Raúl Castro. The deployment of an aircraft carrier and its strike group in the Caribbean Sea, hinting at an invasion. Much of this strategy has been driven by influential Cuban Americans who have long sought retribution against the island’s communist rulers. ‘It will be difficult to completely control the impulse for revenge that some Cubans may feel during a transition,’ an opposition leader, José Daniel Ferrer, told Cuban news outlet 14ymedio in January. Yet another force might be strengthening among the political opposition, one that could erode the regime from within, official by official. It entails ridding oneself of thoughts of revenge and, as respected dissident and former political prisoner Óscar Elías Biscet puts it, loving one’s adversaries.” (05/26/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0526/Freeing-Cuba-without-revenge