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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 30, 2011

  Obama's human after all

By David Roberts   President Barack Obama's first official visit to South America was, perhaps not surprisingly, given more international media coverage because of events in Libya, and to a lesser extent Japan, than anything directly related to his host...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 25, 2011

  The real intentions of the "Alliance of Equals"

Reflections of Fidel   (Taken from CubaDebate)   YESTERDAY was a long day. From midday I paid attention to Obama’s vicissitudes in Chile, as I had done the day before with his adventures in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In a brilliant challenge,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 4, 2011

  NATO's inevitable war

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate)   AS opposed to the situation in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies first place in the Human Development Index within Africa and has the highest life expectancy rate on the continent. Education and health receive...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 16, 2011

  Tuberculosis: Canadian Arctic tragedy, growing global threat

By Jack Miller:   The startling incidence of tuberculosis among the native population of Canada, one of the world’s most affluent countries, is the product of a long and continuing history of injustice. According to a pre-release, internet edition of the Public...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 15, 2010

  The Brazilian economic buoyancy and aspirations for regional power

By Franklin W Knight A story circulates that the haughty and humourless Charles de Gaulle once described Brazil as a country about which no one could be serious. His reasoning was based on the enthusiasm with which Brazilians celebrated carnival. Yet de Gaulle was not the only major...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 19, 2010

  ALBA: How Much of a Turn to the Left in Latin American Governance and Economic Policy?

By Christina DeFeo - Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA): The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) was established on December 14, 2004 by Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro. Tired of failed neo-liberal initiatives and Washington’s unfettered political leadership in Latin...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 30, 2010

  US and France pulling train on Manuel Noriega

By Anthony L. Hall: Fourteen years before former President George W. Bush launched a war of dubious justification against Iraq, his daddy, former President George H. W. Bush, launched a war of equally dubious justification against Panama. Actually, baby Bush seemed hell-bent on a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 19, 2010

  Sisterhood between the Bolivarian Republic and Cuba

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) I had the privilege of talking for three hours last Thursday 15th with Hugo Chávez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, who had the gentility to once again visit our country, this time arriving from Nicaragua. Few...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 15, 2010

  The new scramble for Africa

Franklin W Knight FOR the past decade there has been a new scramble for Africa. Scrambling for Africa is nothing new. It reached its apogee in 1884 when 13 European powers and the United States convened at the palace of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to carve up the continent into...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 10, 2010

  OAS vs The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States

By Sonia Rosita Boddie: The OAS was founded in 1948, at the behest of Washington to promote multilateral dialogue and decision making of a hemispheric nature between governments of the Americas. Its structure was an extension of the doctrine of “Americanism”, promoted by the United...... [view]

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