Editor's Note
The Biden administration has now been in office for six months,
along with a narrow Democratic majority in Congress. So it seems an
appropriate time for a report card. I offered my evaluation in another AfricaFocus Bulletin sent out today, entitled Building Back Better? Or Not? But as I was finalizing that Bulletin, I realized that the rising U.S. attacks on Cuba are a key indicator of how things are going.
They show that the United States is headed toward Build Back Worse
a sharp bipartisan reversion to simplistic Cold War policies and
the bad neighbor policy toward Caribbean countries. And yet the