Unleash the Cubanos

I have a strange feeling that the release of Cuba from the stranglehold of fear-based geopolitics will end up being more harmful to progressive expectations than many of our kind feel it might be. It shouldn't be, and it wouldn't have to happen if a conspiracy of digital initiatives openly seeded and unleashed the power of technology within Cubano confines (it's unlike Cuba's leadership could stop it). A wealth of companies could smartly decide to invest in an example -- as they should have for Detroit -- of what giving away an infrastructure of technology and connectivity would mean for empowering a leading force for creative, even artistic change that would have a place in the emerging global dynamics. The near-distant future, if it can be said that way, may be viable for building an American Union (AU) that mirrors the best of what is being learned via the EU; hopefully, Cuba or its cyber justice forces would see that coming and seek to park their abilities on the side of such progress, not within the sphere of militaristic loyalties that try to protect the past.