Barack Obama is making his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president on Friday, touching down in Ghana after attending the G-8 meeting in Italy. He has much catch up work to do to change the global “uncaring” image of the United States.
Read More“I am not naïve, and I believe the attack is not only against you, President Zelaya, or against the Republic of Honduras. Perhaps there is a strategy that is finer, deeper, one that not only involves those in your country who may want to continue with the model of the non-redistribution of income, etc, etc. I believe that it is also an attempt to frustrate a different policy for the whole of America, of all countries that make up the Americas.”
Read MoreIf Micheletti and the Honduran military hold firm in the face of severe economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation, the ball will be in the court of the OAS, the UN and other regional bodies like the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas to up the ante or let the coup succeed by default.
Read MoreThe first measure taken by those who seized power in Honduras was to order a curfew. In addition, they suspended most television and radio broadcasts – even that of the American network CNN, which could be accused of everything except sympathizing with the popular and progressive sectors of Latin America.
Read MoreLike the seemingly never ending US blockade that attacks Cuba’s economy from without, from the inside a corrosion process is gradually eating away at the relatively young 50-year revolution. Nonetheless, taking initiative to stop the rust is much easier said than done.
Read MoreThis “Cuba B” is in no way homogeneous, since each one of its territories – the west, the east and the central region – has its particular characteristics. Nevertheless I am going to use as an illustration the provinces of Guantanamo, Las Tunas and Granma, three of the most backward regions in comparative terms, which came to be as a result of the new political and administrative divisions that have been functioning in the country since 1976.
Read MoreSeen from the island, “to live Cuban” in Miami means roasted pork and beefsteak with French-fries at the La Carretta diner, Cuban coffee on some corner in Little Havana, dominos, Santeria, the photo of the latest model car in front of your house and the colloquial programming on Channel 41.
Read MoreThe perceptions of Havana toward Miami cannot be understood accurately if one does not look at Cuban cultural views of the United States, for a long time characterized by a dual sense: rejection and attraction. It has been said that being a Third World country, the self-comparison of Cubans to their northern kin constitutes a “natural fact.” Read more
Read MoreToday, fifty years later, there is still a long ways to go to advance the interests, energies and the wisdom of Cuba’s working people. I believe people lack the real power to make decisions at their work centers, schools, and even in their local governments and provincial and national legislatures.
Read MoreThe day after the announcement on the loosening of travel restrictions, the area in Miami International Airport where the line is formed for trips to Cuba looked like an anthill in disarray, according to what I read in an e-mail from a friend who works in a currency exchange center there.
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