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Cuba Denounces Trump Administration's Aggressive Policy

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The administration of US President Donald Trump bases its foreign policy on the so-called ''hard power'', through threats or use of force, experts said in Havana on Thursday.
 
Trump's key strategy is to strengthen the Pentagon's military power to frighten its adversaries or invade a country or region if it finds suitable to its interests, Jaime Zuluaga, a professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, stated.
 
This is a clear change with regard to Barack Obama's government. We are not talking here about business initiatives or development approach, but military intervention where Washington desires, the professor said during a forum taking place at the headquarters of the Center for International Policy Research (CIPI).
 
Zuluaga recalled that despite its high fiscal deficit, the United States has the largest military budget in history.
 
The military-industrial complex has great power in the United States. It was shown after the recent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump refused to cancel the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia in response, he added.
 
CIPI expert Enrique Martinez stated that the discourse of the current administration expresses the need to reach its objectives through force.
 
Washington considers Russia and China as challengers to its power and Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as threats while it seeks to add up its allies to its confrontation policy.
 
Academician Elia Concepcion also denounced Trump's plans to reactivate the so-called Monroe Doctrine, named after the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe.
 
'America for Americans,' was the proposal synthesized in 1823 by Monroe and his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, to get Europe's colonial powers away from the area and justify Washington's claims on the continent.
 
The initiative served the White House for decades as a platform for a long list of interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean: from invasions and coups d'Etat to wars, assassinations and dispossession of territories. / PL