When U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to return America to the global stage after four years of isolationism under Donald Trump, the Caribbean was admittedly not a priority. And in the middle of a battle royal with Republicans over domestic spending, the last thing Biden wanted is a foreign-policy crisis infected by politics.
The Caribbean had other ideas. After reeling from a presidential assassination in Haiti that left a power vacuum on top of extreme violence and a growing humanitarian crisis, Biden now confronts historic protests in Cuba that have elicited a chorus of support from American lawmakers, anger from the Cuban government, and a fear of a mass exodus of Cubans to U.S. shores.
