Cuba, sí, Venezuela, no? A double standard in foreign policy
Both Latin American
states repress their citizens and have little regard for human rights, so why
have they received such different treatment from Canada and others?
Yvon Grenier
Professor of Latin American politics at St. Francis Xavier University
Yvon Grenier teaches and writes on Latin American politics (especially Cuba, Mexico and Central America), art/literature and politics, as well as political violence, at St. Francis Xavier University. He is a contributing editor for Literal, Latin American voices and author of the recently published Culture and the Cuban State: Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism (Lexington Books, 2017).
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