Global South

By Robert Sandels "I watched Obama closely at the famous 'summit gathering.' Fatigue sometimes overcame him, he involuntarily closed his eyes and occasionally slept with his eyes…
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By Israel Rodríguez J. From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada The director of Pemex/PEP , Carlos Morales Gil, said that, to avoid running into the Helms-Burton Law, Pemex might…
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By José A. Delgado From El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico WASHINGTON, D.C. – For a good many of his 27 years in the FBI, the appointed police superintendent , Héctor Pesquera, worked for…
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By Nil Nikandrov From Strategic Culture Foundation The slogan of the VI Summit of the Americas, which will convene in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) on April 14-15, "Connecting the…
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By Manuel E. Yepe HAVANA – Elliott Abrams, a former high-ranking official at the U.S. State Department during the 1980s, testified in late January that the Reagan administration knew…
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The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that doctors in Cuba have found a new lesion in the area where he had cancer surgery last year. He told…
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and her Cuban-American constituency to blame By Dana Frank It’s time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian On Thursday, the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday's expulsion of the U.S. ambassador from Ecuador.…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian In 1915, the U.S. Marines invaded Haiti, occupying the country until 1934. U.S. officials rewrote the Haitian constitution, and when the Haitian…
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By Mark WeisbrotFrom the Sun-Sentinel The controversy over the return of the infamous dictator, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, to Haiti, is in many ways a distraction. Certainly, it…
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