A Judas of the Caribbean

Via the Casa de las Américas, translated from the Spanish

Sixty years ago, over forty thousand U.S. Marines invaded the Dominican Republic. The pretext at the time was to prevent the nation from turning into "a second Cuba." Now, six decades later, President Luis Abinader stands alongside the Secretary of War of the invading nation, not to demand accountability for the dreadful act that claimed the lives of thousands of his fellow citizens, but to offer their national territory as a base for military action against neighboring Venezuela and our peoples.

This individual who once participated in organizing an exclusive (and unsuccessful) Summit of the Americas, representing the most compliant sectors of the neighboring nation, now seeks to compromise their national sovereignty, dishonoring remarkable figures like Juan Pablo Duarte and Máximo Gómez, and bringing shame to the Dominican people.

The great intellectual Juan Bosch forever baptized the Caribbean as an imperial border. And several decades earlier, Martí had warned that it is our historical duty to prevent the United States from expanding into the Antilles "and descending, with that extra force, upon the lands of our America."

In keeping with Martí's directive, we at the Casa de las Américas condemn this grotesque act of submission to an Empire that, in its decline, seeks to reimpose the Monroe Doctrine on us.

Havana, November 27, 2025.

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