Like Jamaica is just a puppet state that the US operate on behalf of its bourgeois vacationers, right?
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Jamaica is a constitutional monarchy under the British crown. It would be a gross oversimplification to call all of these nations puppet states to the US, ignoring a lot of their own colonial and post-colonial history. Much like mainland Latin America, there are influences from England, Spain, France to varying degrees in the region.
Of course, the US views the Caribbean as its “backyard,” and has intervened a ton throughout the 20th century, like the invasion of Grenada in the 80s.
I know the UK owns the Cayman Islands. The queen is their head of state, and appoints their governor directly (that’s right, they don’t even get to vote on their own governor), and said governor also has the right to veto anything. The UK government also has the ability to veto any legislation the governor approves.
the dutch still own some islands, some are british/commonwealth, and some french
dont let the euros off so easily
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