加勒比共同体 | 一份加勒比的荣誉之债：前总理們出面敦促非洲-古巴石油使命

 加勒比共同体 | 一份加勒比的荣誉之债：前总理出面敦促非洲-古巴石油使命

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三位加勒比政治家面临紧急呼吁，要求动员非洲产油国援助陷入困境的盟友

牙买加，蒙特哥贝，2026年2月16日——本周，哈瓦那的灯光第四次闪烁并熄灭。在医院里，医生借着烛光工作。由于燃料短缺导致食品分配瘫痪，家家户户都实行食物配给。这就是2026年的古巴——一个正在被慢慢扼杀的国家，扼杀它的不是政策失误或自然灾害，而是被伪装成制裁的蓄意、精心策划的经济战。

如今，随着古巴人道主义危机加剧，一个响亮的呼声已传达到加勒比地区三位最杰出的政治家：牙买加前总理P.J.帕特森、圣卢西亚前总理肯尼·安东尼博士以及圣文森特和格林纳丁斯前总理拉尔夫·冈萨尔维斯博士。

全球非洲人大会通过其总大使西基雅·托马斯发出紧急呼吁，请求这些领导人牵头组建一个加勒比共同体（CARICOM）外交使团，前往非洲产油国——尼日利亚、安哥拉和其他有意向的伙伴——为古巴争取紧急能源援助。

这一请求具有深远的道德分量。这不仅仅是请几位前政府首脑再承担一项外交任务。他们是被召唤去偿还一份加勒比地区几十年来所欠下的债务。

团结的算术

托马斯在2月10日的信中揭示了一个加勒比领导人很少公开谈论的令人不安的事实：如果没有古巴过去六十年来秉持的国际主义团结，加勒比人民的物质条件"对我们地区最脆弱的群体来说，可能会更糟"。

古巴医生曾在当地医生稀缺时，为加勒比地区的医院配备了人员。古巴教师也曾填补了加勒比地区教室的空缺。

当飓风摧毁一个又一个岛屿时，往往是古巴的灾难应急队最先到达——他们带来的不是新闻稿和拍照机会，而是医疗用品、重建专业知识和亲力亲为的劳动。

古巴在自己也所剩无几的时候，仍无私地给予，其动机并非利润或政治筹码，而是真正的南南团结。

现在，古巴人民面临的是字面意义和比喻意义上的黑暗。长达六十年的美国禁运，最近因削减石油出口而加剧，已造成了托马斯正确称之为"难以忍受的、可怕的、恶性的、域外影响的"后果。

任何诚实的评估都会认为，这就是经济战，其目的是使平民生活变得难以忍受，从而促使民众起来反抗政府。

这违反了联合国宪章、国际法和基本的人类尊严。然而，由于意识形态的僵化和帝国的傲慢，这种情况年复一年地持续着。

为何这三位领导人至关重要

帕特森、安东尼和冈萨尔维斯具备在加勒比政治中日益罕见的东西：在国际舞台上无可指责的信誉。他们数十年来为小国主权进行的倡导，对国际法的一贯维护，以及在正义问题上的道德清晰度，赋予了他们现任官员往往缺乏的外交分量。

托马斯的呼吁认识到，非洲不会回应官僚式的加勒比共同体代表团，而是会回应那些过往记录令人尊敬的、有良知的领导人。这三位先生的整个职业生涯都在捍卫一个原则，即所有国家都有选择自己发展道路的主权权利——这正是美国禁运试图摧毁的原则。

南南团结还是空谈姿态？

多年来，加勒比共同体国家在联合国大会上以压倒性多数投票谴责美国的禁运。这些投票无需任何代价。它们在不要求牺牲的情况下表明了立场。现在到了检验这种口头上的团结能否转化为物质行动的时候了。

非洲和加勒比地区有着通过几个世纪的殖民主义、种族压迫和经济剥削而形成的纽带。两个地区都明白，当你的主权被轻视、自决权被剥夺、自己决定道路的权利被遥远的大国视为可以谈判时，意味着什么。托马斯提出的问题以其简洁性而具有毁灭性：我们会与那些曾与我们站在一起的人站在一起吗？

真相时刻

古巴已经用尽了它在加勒比地区的善意账户——不是通过挥霍无度，而是通过几十年来在加勒比国家自身难保时所做的持续"存款"。托马斯所描述的人道主义危机并非假设。它正在发生。人们正在受苦。而那个声称珍视多边主义和法治的国际社会，却在眼睁睁地看着一个超级大国将饥饿和黑暗武器化，用来对付一千一百万人口。

帕特森、安东尼和冈萨尔维斯面临着一个决定其历史遗产的选择。他们可以运用自己的道德权威去动员非洲伙伴，证明加勒比的团结不仅仅意味着象征性的联合国投票。或者，他们可以选择保持沉默，默认针对小国的经济战就是在由一个帝国任性所主宰的世界里做生意的代价。

古巴曾在加勒比呼唤时伸出援手。现在的问题是，当古巴发出呼唤时，本地区最杰出的三位领导人是否会回应。

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CARICOM | A Caribbean Debt of Honour: Former PMs Urged to Lead Africa-Cuba Oil Mission

Calvin G. Brown

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 17 February 2026

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Former Prime Ministers PJ Patterson of Jamaica; Dr. Kenny Anthony of St. Lucia and Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Former Prime Ministers PJ Patterson of Jamaica; Dr. Kenny Anthony of St. Lucia and Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Three Caribbean statesmen face urgent call to mobilize African oil producers for beleaguered ally

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, February 16, 2026 - The lights flicker and die across Havana for the fourth time this week. In hospitals, doctors work by candlelight. Families ration meals as fuel shortages cripple food distribution. This is Cuba in 2026—a nation being slowly strangled not by policy failure or natural disaster, but by deliberate, calculated economic warfare dressed up as sanctions.

Global Afrikan Congress Ambassador General Cikiah Thomas,

Global Afrikan Congress Ambassador General Cikiah Thomas,

Now, as Cuba's humanitarian crisis deepens, a clarion call has gone out to three of the Caribbean's most distinguished statesmen: Former Prime Ministers P.J. Patterson of Jamaica, Dr. Kenny Anthony of St. Lucia, and Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The Global Afrikan Congress, through its Ambassador General Cikiah Thomas, has issued an urgent appeal for these leaders to spearhead a CARICOM diplomatic mission to African oil-producing nations—Nigeria, Angola, and other willing partners—to secure emergency energy assistance for Cuba.

The request carries profound moral weight. These are not merely former heads of government being asked to take on another diplomatic assignment. They are being called to repay a debt that the Caribbean has owed for decades.

The Arithmetic of Solidarity

Thomas's February 10 letter lays bare an uncomfortable truth that Caribbean leaders rarely articulate publicly: without Cuba's internationalist solidarity over the past sixty years, the material conditions of Caribbean peoples would be "arguably worse off for the most vulnerable groups in our region."

Cuban doctors have staffed Caribbean hospitals when local physicians were scarce. Cuban teachers have filled Caribbean classrooms.

When hurricanes devastated island after island, it was often Cuban disaster response teams who arrived first—not with press releases and photo opportunities, but with medical supplies, reconstruction expertise, and hands-on labor.

Cuba gave selflessly when it had little to give, motivated not by profit or political leverage, but by genuine South-South solidarity.

Now Cuba's people face darkness—literal and figurative. The sixty-year US embargo, recently intensified with cuts to oil exports, has created what Thomas rightly calls "untenable dire, vicious and extraterritorial effects."

This is economic warfare by any honest assessment, designed to make civilian life so unbearable that a population rises against its government.

It violates the UN Charter, international law, and basic human decency. Yet it persists, year after year, sustained by ideological rigidity and imperial arrogance.

Why These Three Leaders Matter

Patterson, Anthony, and Gonsalves carry something increasingly rare in Caribbean politics: unimpeachable credibility on the international stage. Their decades of advocacy for small state sovereignty, their consistent defense of international law, and their moral clarity on issues of justice give them diplomatic weight that current office-holders often lack.

Thomas's appeal recognizes that Africa will respond not to bureaucratic CARICOM delegations, but to leaders of conscience whose track records command respect. These three men have spent careers defending the principle that all nations have the sovereign right to choose their development path—the exact principle the US embargo seeks to crush.

South-South Solidarity or Rhetorical Posturing?

For years, CARICOM nations have voted overwhelmingly in the UN General Assembly to condemn the US embargo. These votes cost nothing. They signal virtue without demanding sacrifice. Now comes the test of whether that rhetorical solidarity translates into material action.

Africa and the Caribbean share bonds forged through centuries of colonialism, racial oppression, and economic exploitation. Both regions understand what it means to have your sovereignty dismissed, your self-determination denied, your right to chart your own course treated as negotiable by distant powers. The question Thomas poses is devastating in its simplicity: Will we stand with those who stood with us?

The Moment of Truth

Cuba has burned through its goodwill account with the Caribbean—not through reckless spending, but through decades of deposits made when Caribbean nations were overdrawn. The humanitarian crisis Thomas describes is not hypothetical. It is happening now. People are suffering now. And the international community that claims to value multilateralism and the rule of law watches while a superpower weaponizes hunger and darkness against a population of eleven million.

Patterson, Anthony, and Gonsalves face a legacy-defining choice. They can leverage their moral authority to mobilize African partners, demonstrating that Caribbean solidarity means more than symbolic UN votes. Or they can remain silent, tacitly accepting that economic warfare against small states is just the price of doing business in a world ordered by imperial whim.

Cuba answered when the Caribbean called. The question now is whether three of the region's finest leaders will answer when Cuba calls them.

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