Punitive Season : Mexico and Cuba
Trump straight up threatened Cuba with kinetic action.
Mexico is now next and under pressure. The review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement for free trade is imminent and meddling in Mexico is now out in the open.
Claudia Sheinbaum said: ‘We will not allow any foreign government to come and decide the future of the Mexican people.’
On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected foreign interference in the country’s internal affairs after the United States requested the extradition of a state governor and nine other officials it accuses of arms and drug trafficking. Before this, CIA officials were killed in a car crash when they brazenly took part in a Mexican drug interdiction – with no authority.
Bilateral ties have been strained by a recent discovery that CIA agents have been taking part in anti-narcotics operations on Mexican soil without the consent of the Mexican government.
This marks the first time in the history of Mexico-U.S. bilateral ties that Washington has accused a high-ranking official still in office from Mexico, namely Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha, of criminal activity, Sheinbaum said.
Given the absence of reasonable proof of wrongdoing, the accusations could be politically driven, Sheinbaum said during her daily press conference.
“Defending sovereignty, as we have done so far, and the rule of law must be based on evidence. We will not allow any foreign government to come and decide the future of the Mexican people,” she stressed.
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Update: There is a little good news from Cuba.
CUBA SCORES MAJOR VICTORY AGAINST US OIL BLOCKADE
Cuba can now refine its own oil thanks to a breakthrough of the Hermanos Diaz oil refinery in the city of Santiago de Cuba using thermoconversion technology developed by the Oil Research Center and presented to the National Innovation Council by President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Havana has 20 billion barrels of oil reserves, which is enough to power the whole country for many decades. Despite this, they were unable to refine it.
But now they have developed their own sovereign technology that would allow them to refine their own domestic crude oil reserves and not have to rely on buying it from countries like Venezuela, Mexico, and Russia/Soviet Union. The island has essentially become energy independent.
And the greatest of all, with the introduction of this new method along with the supply of Russian energy, the power that the US has exerted over Cuba with the oil blockade has been significantly diminished.
“The episode opens with an update on the fallout from the Chihuahua incident, where two CIA agents died in a car crash while on an unauthorized operation alongside state authorities.”
Every time an American CIA agent dies, an angel gets its wings. 😉