{"id":565,"date":"2026-07-10T06:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:07:38","slug":"detente-with-cuba-just-about-freaking-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9tente With Cuba: Just About Freaking Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>December 17, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>D\u00e9tente With Cuba: Just About Freaking Time<\/h1>\n<h1>D\u00e9tente With Cuba: Just About Freaking Time<\/h1>\n<h2>The history of US-Cuban relations in the last fifty-five years is the history of the loss of American prestige.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>December 17, 2014<\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Much is legitimately contested in this crazy, crazy world, but there is only one honest response to the news that the Obama administration will open talks with Cuba to re-establish diplomatic relations, suspended since early 1961: it is just about freaking time.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the Revolution of January 1, 1959\u2014which overthrow the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista\u2014<em>The Nation<\/em> warned of the deleterious consequences for Cuba and for the US should the government of the latter deal with the former only on the basis of antagonism and hostility. The great foreign correspondent Carleton Beals\u2014who made international headlines in the late 1920s after traveling into the jungles of Nicaragua to interview the elusive guerrilla leader Augusto C\u00e9sar Sandino\u2014wrote in \u201c,\u201d in the <em>Nation<\/em> of January 17, 1959: \u201cMuch of the course of events in the near future will depend upon the official American attitude toward Castro. Will our government be as lavishly helpful with him as it was with Batista?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t to be. By the summer of 1960, Beals was writing in a special \u201cReport from Havana\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have missed the boat badly. If the Eisenhower Government succeeds in overthrowing Castro (it would cost much bloodshed), in destroying the agrarian reform and the free spirit of the Cuban people and in imposing another puppet dictator labeled as \u201cdemocratic,\u201d the action will win no prestige for the United States. If Castro survives our dollar diplomacy and our fear diplomacy, our loss in prestige will be equally great.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By that point, Eisenhower had already directed the CIA to come up with plans for an invasion of Cuba, which were eventually passed off\u2014with disastrous consequences, predicted by Beals\u2014to his successor, John F. Kennedy. Just after the election that November, Beals wrote in \u201c\u201d (November 12, 1960) that Cubans were extremely nervous at the prospect that the US would launch an invasion to overthrow Castro, probably using a false-flag attack on the naval base at Guantanamo as a \u201cpretext.\u201d Though that\u2019s not how things eventually played out\u2014the United States never even bothered to cite a proximate cause for the Bay of Pigs invasion\u2014Beals\u2019s warnings now read as disturbingly, tragically prophetic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Even if an attack occurred, the Cubans may be wrong in believing that immediate armed intervention would follow. A state of quasi-belligerency between the two countries would permit the Untied States to blockade the island and starve the Cuban people into submission. There are indications that a clique in Washington, chiefly military, wishes to set up such a blockade and seize all shipments from iron curtain countries. Such a course could bring about armed clashes with the Soviets, who might attempt to protect their shipping with warships and submarines.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p><span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Could Abdul El-Sayed Upend Democratic Politics for Good?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Could Abdul El-Sayed Upend Democratic Politics for Good?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nNathan Robinson <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art in the Age of Antagonism <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art in the Age of Antagonism <\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nQ&amp;A<br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n                            \/<br \/>\n                        <\/span><br \/>\nElaine Schiff <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>The Great American State Fair\u2019s Great Belly Flop<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                The Great American State Fair\u2019s Great Belly Flop<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nAmanda Moore <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>How Zohran Mamdani Saved the Fourth of July<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                How Zohran Mamdani Saved the Fourth of July<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJeet Heer <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Besides threatening world conflict, our Cuban policy has broken the New World front. Each hour that our punitive blows hit Cuba, we lose support from the people of Latin America\u2026. If we really believe in land reform for Latin America, and intend to help pick up the tab for it, then why not pick up the tab for Cuba and guarantee her agrarian bonds? This gesture would cost us little more than what we should have paid for the use of the Guantanamo Naval Base all these six decades. It would certainly be cheaper and more sensible than bringing a possible world war close to our shores, breaking the hearts of the Cuban people, and perhaps fomenting a dozen Cuban revolutions elsewhere in Latin America. The whole deal would cost us less than the development of one of our new-fangled moon-rockets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it was in the following week\u2019s issue that <em>The Nation <\/em>really staked its claim to fame on the story of Cuban-American relations. In an editorial titled \u201c\u201d\u2014ironically, we can see now, published the page after a lead editorial on \u201cMr. Kennedy\u2019s Opportunity\u201d\u2014<em>The Nation <\/em>cited intelligence gleaned from Dr. Ronald Hilton of Stanford University, who on a trip to Guatemala learned that the US was training counter-revolutionary Cuban guerillas in a secret base in that country:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If Washington is ignorant of the existence of the base, or, knowing that it exists, is nevertheless innocent of any involvement in it, then surely the appropriate authorities will want to scotch all invidious rumors and issue a full statement of the real facts. On the other hand, if the reports heard by Dr. Hilton are true, then public pressure should be brought to bear upon the Administration to abandon this dangerous and hair-brained project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, it was not to be. <em>The Nation<\/em>\u2019s warning was ignored, and a more deeply reported account of the the invasion preparations, to be published in <em>The New Republic<\/em>, was suppressed at the request of that magazine\u2019s Reader-in-Chief. <em>The Nation<\/em> tried again in January with an editorial titled \u201cNothing to Fear?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The notion that this country is planning an actual armed invasion of Cuba is, by common assumption, \u201cpreposterous.\u201d Why, then, does Castro insist that an invasion is imminent? Why does he keep the Cubans on a round-the-clock alert?\u2026 Why, given all these signs and omens, is Castro so nervous? Doesn\u2019t this silly man know that the sugar-cane harvest needs attention? Aren\u2019t there some psychiatrists in Havana who might calm his volatile militia men and militia ladies? Who are they afraid of, \u201cspooks\u201d or what?<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=561\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez Is Living on Borrowed Time<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When the invasion finally materialized in April of 1961, it wasn\u2019t, of course, only <em>The Nation <\/em>who recognzied it for the disaster it was\u2014not just a tactical or even a strategic disaster, but a disaster, as Beals had written the previous summer, for what remained of American prestige. Most of the media concentrated on Kennedy\u2019s unwillingness to militarily intervene to support the invasion, but even before that decision had been made, editor Carey McWilliams asked Ronald Hilton, who had initially provided the information about the invasion preparations the previous fall, to reflect on the implications of the conspiracy itself (\u201cThe Cuba Trap,\u201d April 29, 1961):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A few general considerations may be derived.\u2026 The first is that the United States will almost certainly emerge from the current situation with a tarnished reputation. Our equivocations have unquestionably reduced our prestige throughout the world. For this we must thank the power elite in New York and Washington which really runs the affairs of this country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That power elite is responsible for the embargo on Cuba, in effect to various degrees since October of 1960. <em>The Nation<\/em> has repeatedly called for its end\u2014most recently this past October, in a feature article by William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh. This magazine\u2019s archives are endlessly fascinating, for their historical interest, and for their enabling of \u201cwe-told-you-so\u201d posts like this one. But they have another purpose as well. When the time comes to reconsider the position of the power elite in this country, it might be wise to look back at an article that ran in the <em>Nation<\/em> of November 30, 1957. It was titled \u201c,\u201d and the author was Fidel Castro:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The future of the country and the solution of its problems cannot continue to depend on the selfish desires of a dozen financiers, on the cold profit-and-loss calculations of a few magnates in air-conditioned offices. The country cannot continue to beg, on bended knee, for miracles from a few \u201cgolden calves.\u201d Cuba\u2019s problems will only be solved if we Cubans dedicate ourselves to fight for their solution with the same energy, integrity and patriotism our liberators invested in the country\u2019s foundation. They will not be solved by politicians who jabber unceasingly of \u201cabsolute freedom of enterprise,\u201d the sacred \u201claw of supply and demand\u201d and \u201cguarantees of investment capital\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>We have sufficient stones and more than enough hands to create a decent residence for every family in Cuba. But if we continue to wait for miracles from the golden calves, a thousand years will pass and nothing will change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A lot of progress has not happened in Cuba since Castro wrote those words. A lot of progress has not happened in the United States, too. But for the first time in over a half-century, tomorrow really is a new day.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>Curious about how we covered something? E-mail me at <span>[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>. Subscribers to <\/em>The Nation<em> can access our fully searchable digital archive, which contains thousands of historic articles, essays and reviews, letters to the editor and editorials dating back to July 6, 1865.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=563\">Could Abdul El-Sayed Upend Democratic Politics for Good?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>                Submit a correction<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                Send a letter to the editor<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                Reprints &amp; permissions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><span> Jeet Heer<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span>Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for <em>The Nation<\/em> and host of the weekly <em>Nation<\/em> podcast, <em>The Time of Monsters<\/em>. He also pens the monthly column \u201cMorbid Symptoms.\u201d The author of <em>In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly\u2019s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman<\/em>\u00a0(2013) and\u00a0<em>Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles<\/em>\u00a0(2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, <em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>, <em>The American Prospect<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The New Republic<\/em>,\u00a0and <em>The Boston Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=560\">Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art in the Age of Antagonism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p><input\/><br \/>\n<input\/><br \/>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<p>Ad Policy<br \/>\n<!-- <a class=\"inifiniteLoader\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/new_infi_loader.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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