Chavez Makes Deal with Castro’s Successor
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New Book transports us to Havana, Cuba after Castro is gone
(New York, N.Y.) Jay Lillie, a New York based international lawyer, shows us what is likely to happen when Fidel Castro is no longer a presence on the world scene.
Fidel would not agree to relinquish any portion of his power to anyone during his lifetime, but he’s made a deal for what comes after. Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan strongman, has bought into the selection process with petro dollars, and Castro’s successor will become a very rich man.
Fidel Castro is accomplished at playing one adversary against another. He flirts with China to annoy Washington; he colludes with Venezuela to further his own goals of anti-U.S. regimes across Latin America; and he taunts his ex-countrymen in Florida by trading Cuban goods in the Bahamas only 70 miles east of Miami; but Castro is not going to share his throne with anyone so long as he’s alive.
Meanwhile, Chavez and Castro work together to form a leftist hegemony from Caracas, across Columbia and Bolivia, over the isthmus of Panama and on up Central America to Mexico City, back around through Cuba and the Caribbean, in other words the whole U.S. backyard from where 30% of the country’s daily petroleum needs originate. When Fidel is no longer around, Chavez doesn’t want some newcomer in Havana with ties to Washington. Those close to the situation believe Chavez will make his move on Havana while the lawyers and politicians in Washington argue about the claims Cuban/Americans have under the Helms/Burton law against the old Cuban regime.
Lillie’s book, HAVANA PASSAGE, is set in this environment several years hence. This is a peek today into tomorrow’s history, and between the book’s covers heroes emerge from unexpected places trying to save Cuba for Cubans.
Jay Lillie has become a favorite invitee on national and regional news radio/television talk shows on the subject of Cuba after Castro.