Latin America

Major Developments in Cuba for 2014

Below, readers will find 12 highly important events that made headlines and had a significant impact on Cuba and Cubans during 2014. These were selected on the basis of their impact on the country’s political, economic and cultural spheres.

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Cuba’s Raul Castro Explains Advances with USA

Cuban president Raul Castro spoke to the nation today at noon, the same time that Barack Obama was making an address from the White House. The two leaders were addressing, in their own way, a successful diplomatic effort that included the release of prisoners Alan Gross, the three remaining Cuban Five members and an unnamed US agent who was also jailed in Cuba.

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New Report Exposes How Multinationals Profit from Climate Change

As we broadcast from the United Nations Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, we speak with Pascoe Sabido of the Corporate Europe Observatory, which has just released a new report, “Corporate Conquistadors: The Many Ways Multinationals Both Drive and Profit from Climate Destruction.” “This is COP 20. For 20 years we’ve been going without progressing to a fair and progressive climate deal that we need,” Sabido says. “One of the big reasons is the aggressive lobbying of the fossil fuel industry both at the national level and here at the talks.”

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