For the last few weeks the virtual organisation Wikileaks has been selectively making available classified US State Department reporting. They have been doing so to a small group of news outlets in the US, UK, Spain and elsewhere. At the time of writing just 1,618 of the 251,287 documents that they hold have been made public, suggesting that if every document were eventually to be published, and if anyone is by then still interested, this dubious event will be over in an another sixteen years.
From a Caribbean perspective what has so far been published is inconsequential. It has consisted of political and economic reporting from the US Interests Section in Havana; comments on the Haitian President;
