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Oil Diplomacy to the Rescue? Cuban Drilling Off Florida Keys to Begin By End of the Year
For 51 years the U.S. has imposed an economic embargo against Cuba, severely crippling the island’s economy for its effrontery in choosing a socialist path for development, a policy confirmed and intensified in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Now...
Venezuela to Compensate American Oil Companies for Nationalization?
If Cuba’s Fidel Castro is America’s favorite Latin American bête noire, then Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez qualifies as Washington’s reigning Prince of Darkness.
Couple Plead Guilty in 30-Year Espionage Conspiracy
A former State Department official and his wife have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their roles in a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified U.S. national defense information to the Republic of Cuba. At a hearing before Judge Reggie...
Fidel Castro Says Relaxed Travel Restrictions have Helped Spread the H1N1 Virus
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro says relaxed travel restrictions between the United States and Cuba have helped spread the H1N1 swine flu virus. In an opinion piece published Saturday in Cuba’s state-run newspapers, Mr. Castro says the first...
Venezuela’s President Chavez Warns of Possible War Due to an Increased U.S. Military Presence in Colombia
At a South American summit in Quito on Monday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the presence of U.S. servicemen in Colombia could provoke a war. “The announcement of an American military deployment at seven military bases in Colombia could...
UC Davis Historian Catalogs U.S. Government’s Secrets, Lies And Conspiracies
45-year-long decline in America’s trust in its leaders fueled by the government’s own secrets, lies and conspiracies a University of California, Davis, history professor argues in a new book.
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Losing Hope in New U.S. President
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes that high hopes should not be placed on the new U.S. administration or on President Barack Obama. The comments came after the U.S. State Department published on Wednesday its annual human rights report in which...
Cuba’s Fidel Castro Says President Obama Unable to Solve Economic Problems
In his Monday newspaper column, Reflections, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said that U.S. President Barack Obama is incapable of solving the U.S.’s problems. Castro also suggested that other countries would be the real victims of the U.S....
