Washington wants the compliance without the accountability—and Caribbean leaders are left holding the bag

By WiredJa Staff

Caribbean Prime Ministers do not lie about diplomatic pressure from Washington. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose from such admissions. Yet on February 4, 2026, the United States Embassy in Barbados issued a Media Advisory that amounts to diplomatic gaslighting—a flat denial of pressure that St. Lucia's Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre had publicly acknowledged just days earlier.