Cuba: the Latin American Crimea Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero Perhaps there is no Latin American emblem as significant as Cuba represents it. The defense of the Argentine Malvinas is an act of supreme courage, but Cuba's resistance to imperialist ambition is immeasurable. David against Goliath is a brief metaphor for the infinite dignity that the Cuban revolution has manifested. Beyond ideological conflicts, Cuba personifies for Latin America a bulwark of identity. The last possession of the Spanish empire is also a watchword of life. Cuba is the other Spanishness, the utopia of a revolutionary and social republic, secular, plural and significant. The United States has only enslaved Latin America and Cuba represents Spartacus who has managed to wound the American colossus. The blockade of Cuba must end. The oppression of the powerful over the weak is only ignominy and, therefore, the world is with the Cuban revolution. Robert Pastor has marked the expiration of anti-communism i