No one can argue against the end of a 16 year-long ordeal for the Cuban
Five, but there are no benevolent motives behind the Obama
administration’s actions. The United States did not suddenly give up its
plan for unipolar domination. Indeed we must assume that these latest
moves are part of the larger plan to bring every nation to heel.
-- Margaret Kimberley, "Freedom Rider: Cuba in the American Imagination" (Black Agenda Report).