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The Caribbean's Crucible: How a Western-Designed Financial Architecture Condemns Small Islands to a Debt and Climate Trap

Small island developing states in the Caribbean are facing a crushing trilemma of rising energy costs, shrinking climate finance, and extreme climate impacts, hindering their development and resilience. This is the predictable consequence of a global financial architecture designed by the West to suffocate vulnerable nations, forcing them into a cruel choice between survival and debt servitude.