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Latino leaders and scholars, addressing Venezuela’s ‘National Security Threat’ designation, sent the following letter to President Obama before the Summit of the Americas.
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Members of the official Cuban delegation to the Parallel Forums at the Panama Summit have repudiated the presence in Panama City of Cuban dissidents who have vowed to take part in those…
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Latin America has changed much since the first Summit in Miami in 1994, convened then by President Bill Clinton and whose aim was to "propose" the FTAA to the Latin American people.
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The White House is desperately trying to preserve the OAS as its primary organization for managing Western Hemisphere Affairs. After all, the Organization of American States is based in…
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia and Guatemala next week. Lavrov last visited Cuba in April of last year, preparing the way for President…
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President Obama also, reportedly with a straight face, officially declared that Venezuela poses “an extraordinary threat to the national security” of the U.S.
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In spite of the snow and the cold, more than 60 Colombians marched in New York in support of both the Peace Dialogues being held in Havana, Cuba, and life. “We must change the culture…
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Yesterday the White House took a new step toward the theater of the absurd by “declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national…
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Cuba states its position with regards to the aggressive Executive Order issued by the President of the United States against the Government of the BolivarianRepublic of Venezuela, which…
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Coups and countercoups. Crackdowns. Economic crackups. Seven cents for a tube oftoothpaste and $755 for a box of condoms. As a result of the latter, Bloomberg says, “Venezuela has one…
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