I want to be Cuban in this col­umn, but I do not know if I am up to the task. I want to par­tic­i­pate in my coun­try’s eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment by im­port­ing from and ex­port­ing to the rest of the world, but 45/47 is stand­ing mas­sive­ly in the way.

In plain day­light, he has tak­en con­trol of all of Venezuela’s gas and oil and de­prived me of the ship­ments that would have sus­tained my elec­tric­i­ty grid and giv­en me the en­er­gy to over­come the wide­spread black­outs that are dark­en­ing my land and send­ing me back to prim­i­tive times.

This ter­ror­ist has im­posed sanc­tions on me and block­ad­ed me, pre­vent­ing me from trad­ing in the US dol­lar with my Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­can neigh­bours, with whom I have done busi­ness for long years.