Timothy Snyder wrote this article for YES! Magazine. He is the Bird White Housum professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. This article began as a Facebook post.
Withholding assistance at this critical time indicates to Cubans, Cuban Americans and the world that the Biden Administration is not really interested in the well-being of the Cuban people, despite statements to the contrary.
For the nation’s stability, for the integrity of our justice system, and even Trump’s own (short-term) good, seizing his passport resolves all problems.