{"id":74148,"date":"2026-05-29T00:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/the-us-wants-regime-change-in-cuba-but-havanas-european-friends-have-deserted-it-too-paul-taylor\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:07:13","slug":"the-us-wants-regime-change-in-cuba-but-havanas-european-friends-have-deserted-it-too-paul-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/the-us-wants-regime-change-in-cuba-but-havanas-european-friends-have-deserted-it-too-paul-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"The US wants regime change in Cuba. But Havana\u2019s European friends have deserted it too | Paul Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain led the opposition to Trump\u2019s Iran war, but on the Cuba blockade, the challenge is absent<\/p>\n<p>For many Europeans of my generation, Cuba was as much a progressive cause as a country.<\/p>\n<p>In our selectively idealistic student days (mine were in the mid-1970s), it was a plucky little country that had overthrown a corrupt regime in cahoots with the US mafia. In a popular revolution led by the charismatic Fidel Castro and iconic guerrilla leader Che Guevara, it then withstood a crippling US economic embargo to defend its independence. <em>Hasta la victoria siempre!<\/em> (Ever onwards to victory!)<\/p>\n<p>Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/may\/29\/cuba-us-blockade-europe-spain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain led the opposition to Trump\u2019s Iran war, but on the Cuba blockade, the challenge is absent For many Europeans of my generation, Cuba was as much a progressive cause as a country. In our selectively idealistic student days (mine were in the mid-1970s), it was a plucky little country that had overthrown a corrupt &#8230; <a title=\"The US wants regime change in Cuba. But Havana\u2019s European friends have deserted it too | Paul Taylor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/the-us-wants-regime-change-in-cuba-but-havanas-european-friends-have-deserted-it-too-paul-taylor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The US wants regime change in Cuba. But Havana\u2019s European friends have deserted it too | Paul Taylor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}