America’s unstoppable Hispanic future

“American dominance of the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” declared the US Department of State in a new video explaining the Trump administration’s embrace of the Monroe Doctrine, which commanded an American regional sphere of influence. Tellingly, this tribute to empire was narrated by 35-year-old Kevin Marino Cabrera, US Ambassador to Panama — and proud son of Cuban immigrants, hardly a WASP diplomat of the State Department’s traditional “pale, male, and Yale” variety. Marino Cabrera is the flesh-and-blood legacy of the events the video celebrated: America’s invasion of Cuba during the Spanish-American War and its handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He is a living sign of the United States’ long imperial entanglement with Cuba. The more the United States comes to do