Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba. He has written numerous books and articles about that country as well as about the Russian Revolution and US politics. He is an emeritus professor at the City University of New York.
It should be clear that there is absolutely nothing democratic about the negotiations between Trump’s agents and the Cuban government. If an agreement is reached, it will be a pure distillation of politics from above. Unlike previous US presidents, Trump has not even pretended to have a democratic justification for his foreign policy.
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