Global South

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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By Mark Weisbrot  From The Guardian  The polarization of the debate around Wikileaks is pretty simple, really. Of all the governments in the world, the United States government is the…
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By Blanche Petrich From the Mexican daily La Jornada The philosopher Enrique Dussel, a professor at Mexico's Autonomous National University and a researcher at the Autonomous…
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