By the time this is published, it is likely that the US administration will have authorised a military attack on Syria. The purpose of this uncertain adventure is, according to President Obama, to demonstrate that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
As with the invasion of Iraq, any decision to attack Syria raises difficult questions for the Caribbean and may indirectly impact negatively on the region’s ailing economy. However, more positively it could serve to further promote synergies within the new political grouping, CELAC, the Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, which consists of all 33 nations in the Americas other than Canada, the US and the dependent territories of European nations.
The issues surrounding what happened in Syria are subject to a wide range of interpretations, but anyone who saw the horrific pictures of those dying from the effects of some sort of nerve agent, who read the comments of Médecins Sans Frontières about the large numbers of patients arriving in less than three hours with symptoms including convulsions, dilated pupils and breathing problems, or how
