A powerful COFCOR declaration condemning Cuba’s economic strangulation and the threat of military aggression was undermined by a two-line footnote that signals a troubling realignment of Caribbean loyalties.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 27, 2026 - When the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) issued its statement on the situation in Cuba, it carried all the moral weight the region could muster. Strong language. Principled positions. The kind of declaration that reminds the world why small states with long memories speak with uncommon clarity on questions of sovereignty. Then came the footnote — and two nations effectively walked away from the table.

