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Bluejay's avatar

Vivify,

I have loved hearing from you in your interviews on Rich Does Politics YT channel and here on Substack. I think you are an important voice that needs to be heard while developing the new policy approach toward the Caribbean. If we are all on one team in our hemisphere, then we need to be all on one team! Make the Caribbean great! There needs to be a good explanation to people about why Cuban communism happened and how we don’t want to repeat that by developing policies that are fair to the Caribbean nations so they can develop as well!! Let’s try to promote Vivify’s articles to people in the administration who are developing our policy toward the Caribbean. This is such a good analysis. Usually it just demonizes the United States, which makes a lot of people ignore it, and there is a huge problem with how we dealt with them but when you look at the economic structures and you describe so well how that came from city of London no wonder this happened and Trump is trying to break that down so hopefully we can develop a new and better policy. I hope you can be part of it!!

Vivify Mariposa's avatar

Bluejay, thank you so much. I truly appreciate this.

I do hope my voice reaches more people, especially those who want to help President Trump strengthen the Caribbean and rebuild our hemisphere in a better direction.

The City of London and its financial machinery divided us for centuries. That kind of damage does not disappear overnight. This battle will not be easy, and people need patience. Too many want everything fixed instantly, but what took centuries to break will not be repaired in one election cycle.

That is also why so many people are divided and even against the President. They are reacting from the wrong dictionary, the wrong history, and the wrong enemy.

My goal is to keep exposing the structure so more people can understand what is really happening and help move the Caribbean toward sovereignty, prosperity, and real freedom.

Thank you again for reading, listening, and seeing the bigger picture. 🦋

Base1Aransas's avatar

It's the eternal battle Sister. You are doing such an excellent job bringing Your experience of keeping all Humanity free from the evil that never sleeps and wants to destroy our creation. The Universe Blesses you along with myself.

Amgmt's avatar

The 2001 documentary Life and Debt lays out the formula on how the IMF subjugated Jamaica.

<Place Caribbean nation name here> rinse repeat.

Base1Aransas's avatar

Thanks Amgmt, The evidence of this happening goes back a very long way. People have figured out and told the story since "Jesus through out the money changers" in our time. I think it was happening before. Yet evil and deception will always battle. Vifify is doing her job relating in with her OWN personal experience and sharing with others. It's how humanity survives. Truth lives in our hearts, not religions.

Amgmt's avatar

Yes, the post does a very good job of capturing the central banks imperialist machine that destroys sovreignty and enslaves nations.

There is no easy way out.

Danimal28's avatar

Depressing to learn that the U.S. government actively destroyed what were great trading partners that shared common Christian values. It is very stinging to learn our own government cut off Cuba and then essentially created an enemy via the bankers. Ugh. Hard not to let my soldierly vernacular spew here regarding our government.

Just read a book on U.S. Grant and his profound interest in Santo Domingo back in his day.

Vivify Mariposa's avatar

Exactly. That is the part people do not want to face.

The U.S. did not simply “lose” Cuba. It helped create the conditions that pushed Cuba into the role of permanent warning. Cut the sugar access, isolate the island, punish the economy, then point at the collapse and say, “See? That is communism.”

And yes, U.S. interest in Santo Domingo has never been innocent. Grant understood the strategic value of the island. The ports, the trade routes, the debt, the geography, the control point.

That is why the Caribbean matters. It has never been just “small islands.” It has always been strategic ground.

Danimal28's avatar

Yeah, one of the reasons we won our Revolution was that Britain was forced to protect 'their interests' in the Caribbean against Spain and France....

I really, really, pray that Trump(et al.) can restore Cuba back into the real world. I know there are a lot of Americans of Cuba descent that will want their assets back.

Vivify Mariposa's avatar

Yes, I agree. I do think Marco Rubio understands Cuba on a personal level because he comes from that Cuban exile history. Like many of us in the Caribbean, he knows what it means to watch a country you love be trapped under a regime while outsiders reduce the suffering to an ideology debate.

And I do not see President Trump’s approach the same way I see the old regime-change machine. That old model created chaos, dependency, and more control. Trump’s vision for the hemisphere is different: make countries stronger so their people do not have to flee them.

That is why Cuba matters.

A free Cuba would not only change Cuba. It would change the Caribbean. It would weaken the old system that used Cuba as the permanent warning while using the rest of the region through debt, banks, trade, and political labels.

I hope Trump and Rubio help open the door for real Cuban freedom, not through empty speeches, but by breaking the structures that keep the Cuban people trapped.

The Caribbean needs strong nations, not managed colonies with prettier vocabulary.🦋

Amgmt's avatar

The central banking system has enormous control over "sovereign" governments, the United States included.

Vivify Mariposa's avatar

Exactly. “Sovereign government” sounds beautiful until the central banking and creditor architecture decides what that sovereignty is allowed to afford.

A country can have a flag, elections, an anthem, and a constitution, but if its budget, currency stability, debt rating, bond access, and fiscal policy are controlled by external financial pressure, sovereignty becomes mostly decorative.

That is the machine: political independence on paper, financial dependency underneath.🦋

Danimal28's avatar

Indeed. Which Trump is trying to fix.