Obama’s directive, which identifies the protection of sexual minorities as a priority of US foreign policy and stipulates that their rights be defended, has also been sent to US missions overseas. US State Secretary John Kerry is giving the issue his utmost attention. The post of Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons has been created under his personal supervision, to which the American diplomat and homosexual Randy Berry has been appointed. He has stated that he intends to fervently defend the interests of LGBT persons in Latin America, primarily in countries not known for their tolerance of sexual minorities.

One of the first steps of Obama’s ‘rainbow’ experiment was the appointment of James ‘Wally’ Brewster as US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic in 2013. It should be noted that Santo Domingo was the very first city to be colonised by the Spanish Crown in the Western hemisphere: it is the site of the first university, the first Catholic cathedral and the first fortress.

The people of the Dominican Republic, who are traditionally conservative in everything related to family life and the raising of children, greeted the news of Brewster’s appointment with indignation. Reverend Cristóbal Cardozo, leader of the Dominican Evangelical Fraternity, openly referred to the appointment of the gay ambassador as «an insult to good Dominican customs». In an address to the Dominican senate, the United Left Movement also expressed concern at the appointment. The rationale is obvious: the people who sent Brewster «have not taken into account the cultural practices and religious principles of the Dominican people».

Before Brewster’s departure for the Dominican Republic, he married Bob J. Satawake, a wealthy real estate agent, who is referred to in the Dominican media as the ambassador’s husband. The newly-weds have vigorously set about strengthening the position of LGBT persons in conservative Dominican society, with a particular focus on work with young people in schools and universities.

Not all of the ambassador’s initiatives are proving successful, however. The country’s Ministry of Tourism, for example, did not embrace the vision put forward by the US Embassy of tourism marketed to LGBT persons from the US with a projected profit of up to $1.5 billion. Brewster complained to friends that the Dominican people were incapable of doing basic math, since the majority of gay tourists are among the most solvent, which would prove extremely profitable for the Dominican Republic.

Catholic bishops and priests view Brewster as an enemy, strongly condemning the sin of same-sex cohabitation and protesting every time Brewster and his husband visit educational establishments.

General elections are due to take place in the Dominican Republic on 15 May 2016. The election campaign has been accompanied by scandals, at the centre of which is the US Embassy and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Indignation at America’s interference in the Dominican election process has become particularly acute following statements made by Alexandria Panehal, the USAID Mission Director in the country, on the existence of a special $1 million fund to promote LGBT programmes and LGBT ideology. According to Panehal, the US Embassy and USAID are using this money to fund the election campaigns of homosexual Dominican politicians. The creation of an LGBT Chamber of Commerce has also been announced.

Panehal’s announcements have caused a storm of protests and a rise in anti-American sentiment in the Dominican Republic’s social, political and religious circles. So why is Panehal doing it? She has enough international experience, after all. Almost all of her overseas assignments have involved countries where the situation has been complex, and a variety of threats required cautious approach. She worked closely with the CIA on the ‘democratisation’ of Nicaragua project, as well as programmes to prevent a rapprochement between Honduras and ‘populist’ states and between the Republic of Haiti and Venezuela following a devastating earthquake. Panehal was involved in attempts to overthrow President Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and has also served as USAID Deputy Mission Director in the Regional Mission for Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus (a post reserved for a CIA representative).

Some political analysts have expressed the view that US representatives are carrying out a multistage experiment in the Dominican Republic, studying the «emotional and psychological resilience» level of Dominicans to new techniques involving the erosion of the traditional family and marriage. The tone was set by Obama himself when, in April 2015, he placed the treatment of LGBT community as one of the first topics to be discussed during an official visit to Jamaica, expressing his concern over the fact that homosexuality is illegal on the island.

Experts consider Luis Abinader, leader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), to be the US candidate in the Dominican Republic’s forthcoming elections. He has been trying to keep his links with the US quiet, but in Catholic circles it is believed that Abinader has already reached an agreement with the US Embassy to relax the government’s LGBT policy and amend the constitution to allow same-sex marriage. The current president, Danilo Medina (Dominican Liberation Party), intends to retain his post and, judging by the polls, he has every chance. He has spoken with restraint about the US Ambassador’s theatrical stunts, apparently believing that Brewster has compromised himself so much that he does not pose a threat to the religious and moral values of the Dominican people.

The severity of the criticism that has been raining down on gay US diplomat from Catholic bishops has reached its peak and representatives of the Catholic episcopate have not been shy about their choice of words. Seventy-five-year old Cardinal Jesus Lopez Rodriguez has openly used offensive remarks with regard to the ambassador and has suggested that he should «focus on housework, since he's the wife to a man». In response to criticism from the US about his intolerance, the cardinal said that with regard to the LGBT issue, he has always maintained the same position and expressed his views openly and he has no intention of changing them. As one would expect, Ambassador Brewster is mobilising the local LGBT community for an offensive against «reactionary Catholic circles». The immediate goal is to remove Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez.

At the same time, the US Embassy is doing everything it can to ensure the broadest possible presence of overt and covert LGBT activists in the country’s legislative and executive powers. The elections in May will show whether America’s gay conspirators have succeeded in implementing Obama’s plan for the Dominican Republic – to turn it into a nature reserve for LGBT tourists and a stronghold for the penetration of LGBT ideology into other Caribbean and Latin American countries.

The Barack Obama administration has done little to alter the general Caribbean view of the United States as a patronizing bully that sees the Caribbean as a region to invest heavily for the benefit of U.S. travel and hotel businesses while at the same time encroaching on Caribbean sovereignty by claiming the region is menaced by drug dealers and terrorists.

The United States, rather than embrace its own Caribbean cultures in the Florida Keys and New Orleans and its surrounding bayou country, has adopted a policy of treating the Caribbean as a «soft underbelly» of the United States where the only things that matter are a constant military presence and an assurance that the nations of the region follow the United States foreign policy lines and maintain the financial status quo that permits wealthy American businessmen like Mitt Romney to hide their assets from the U.S. tax man…

The decades-long embargo of Cuba, the 1965 U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic and the 1989 invasion of Panama, the covert 1980s CIA war against Nicaragua, the 1983 invasion of Grenada, the 2009 coup in Honduras, and constant U.S. interference in the affairs of the nations of the region, particularly Haiti, all serve as reminders of why it’s past time for the United States to disengage from the Caribbean if it cannot learn to respect Caribbean culture and live with it. 

The United States turned Guantanamo Bay into a place that will be forever known as an American gulag in the Caribbean where torture was and may still be the rule rather than the exception. 

The United States is a malignant influence in what should be the most tranquil region of the world. Caribbean culture is marked by its care-free life style and not the anal-retentive bullying culture of the United States. Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Vieques, Culebra, Andros Island, Aruba, Curacao, Guantanamo Bay, and even the Caribbean Florida Keys should see an evacuation of U.S. military and security elements. It’s way past time for the Caribbean to free of the North American oppressors and that includes Caribbean islands from Key Largo to the Leeward Islands where U.S. cancerous tumors known as FBI field offices and naval and coast guard facilities are reminders of the general harm that the United States has brought and continues to bring to a region that should be a zone of peace and tranquility.

The United States seeks to exercise control over the Caribbean through the Organization of American States (OAS), headquartered across the street from the White House in Washington, DC, and through the military jurisdiction of the U.S. Southern Command based in Miami. However, Caribbean nations understand that the United States does not have their best interests in mind through contrivances like the OAS and, instead, are joining up with alternative organizations run by and for the peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America, for example, the Union of South American States (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CECAM).

The United States’ treatment of its Cajun and Creole Caribbean populations of southern Louisiana – witnessed with the total disregard of these groups in hurricane Katrina and in the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon ecocide — and the 1982 imposition of an interior U.S. border checkpoint north of Key Largo where U.S. citizens and visitors from the Keys were required to prove their citizenship before passing into southern Florida, shows a complete lack of respect for Caribbean peoples by Washington. The 1982 Keys incident led to the proclamation of the Conch Republic by residents of the Keys who believed that if they were to be treated like foreigners, they would become foreigners. Some Key West residents are descendants of white Europeans and Africans who moved to the island from Abaco island in the Bahamas, which makes Key West a Caribbean island with an indigenous population. 

Similarly, the native populations of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are Caribbean peoples and should be free of the colonial masters who rule them from Washington and Miami. The United States has sat by idly and watched its NATO allies, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, re-impose colonialism on the Caribbean territories of the Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Curacao, Sint Maarten, and Bonaire, among others.

Britain abolished the elected government of the Turks and Caicos and imposed direct rule from London. Last May, it was discovered that the Intelligence Service Curaçao (VDC) was routinely wiretapping Curacao government officials and private citizens, including Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte. VDC is an adjunct of the Netherlands signals intelligence agency, the Nationale SIGINT Organisatie (NSO), which, in turn, provides its communications surveillance «catch» to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). After Schotte discovered he and others were being wiretapped by the VDC and NSO, he and his government were dismissed by the Dutch-appointed governor. The pro-Dutch Justice Minister of Sint Maarten, Roland Duncan, ordered the telecommunications firm United Telecommunication Services (UTS) not to disclose any information about wiretapping operations on Sint Marten to a Curacao parliamentary inquiry into the illegal surveillance. The Curaco inquiry was led by Curaçao Parliament Chairman Ivar Asjes. The wiretapping in the Dutch colonies was colonialism at its worst and colonialism with an obvious American surveillance stench about it. 

The United States has been quietly urging the governments of the Caribbean to increase their wiretapping operations, even though such a move would violate constitutional guarantees of privacy. There has been fierce opposition to such increased surveillance in Antighua and Barbuda and St. Kitts and Nevis. The situation in Colombia, where the government of President Alvaro Uribe conducted a massive illegal surveillance operation – with more than a wink and a nod from Washington – serves as an example of Washington’s long-range plans for the Caribbean – to turn the entire region into an expanded Guantanamo Bay , an Orwellian «paradise.» The Caribbean, from Key West and the Bahamas to Barbados and the San Andres islands, occupied by Colombia, should reject all proposal from Washington that would change the character and very essence of the Caribbean.

Recently re-elected President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has signaled his desire to help move Caribbean and Latin American nations further away from the United States, its NATO lackeys, and Israel. Israeli and American diplomats have traveled widely throughout the Caribbean and warned the small island states against recognizing Palestine or supporting its initiatives in the United Nations. The small states, which are reliant on tourism, were told of the consequences of their support for Palestine: they could say goodbye to Jewish tourists and visits from Jewish-owned cruise ships. Caribbean governments are well-versed on the extortionist tactics of the dastardly duo of Washington and Tel Aviv.

The Caribbean must undergo a renaissance and transform itself into a region free of the contrivances brewed up in the policy cauldrons in Washington. A paradise on earth deserves total freedom from American neo-colonialism whether it comes in the form of the military, law enforcement, democracy training, spies, or American trash culture and genetically-modified harmful food products.