PM Pierre stands firm as Washington's anti-Cuba campaign collides with the Caribbean's right to train its own doctors
WiredJa | March 5, 2026
There are two kinds of pressure in Caribbean diplomacy. There is the pressure that arrives with formal declarations, public statements, and the full weight of international law behind it. Then there is the pressure that arrives quietly—in conversations between governments, in veiled warnings about consequences, in the slow reshaping of policy before any public announcement is made. Washington, it appears, has been operating in that second register.

