Libertarian: Cuba’s Imperialism Is Its Downfall

“Cuba, that bastion of anti-imperialist Latin American dignity, turned the far larger and richer Venezuela into a colony,” gibes Reason’s Daniel Raisbeck. The “young, tech-savvy Cubans” protesting on the streets are a sure sign that the Communist regime was too “busy exploiting its Venezuelan colony” to see “discontent brewing at home.” It’s a “classic case of imperial overreach,” with “Cubans stationed in Venezuela being summoned back to the island to quash the rebellion.” Greek historian Polybius “described the cyclical nature of revolutions”: “one-man rule, oligarchy and democracy tend to succeed one another. With time, even the Cuban Revolution might see its tyrants fall.”