Cuba

Obama’s Latin Friends - Confía en el Marxismo

Ousted Honduras president Manuel Zelaya is on a camping trip just outside his native country where he was attempting to take over the government similar to his pal Hugo Chávez of the former democracy of Venezuela. Enter friend of the Latin Marxists, (...)

28 jui. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

Toward a Post-Cold War Latin America Policy

I join various Western Hemisphere leaders in hoping for rapid progress toward a warming of US-Cuban relations. But beyond that, I hope that an effort to get more reasonable on this issue can help us move beyond the larger problem of the Cold War frame of (...)

20 avr. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

Obama : I’m Glad These South Americans Only Hate America And Not Me

Down at the South American summit, President Obama sat through a 50 minute diatribe against all things American by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega : PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago - President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist (...)

20 avr. 2009 | | Rob Port

Change on Cuba Policy

Obama administration announced some steps today to begin moving our Cuba policy in a more sensible direction : . Lift all restrictions on transactions related to the travel of family members to Cuba. . Remove restrictions on remittances to family (...)

14 avr. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

Before the Hurricanes : A Trip to Jewish Cuba

The place was jumpin’ in the 1950s. Congregations expanded with new buildings and programs, the community collected funds for Israel, the descendants of Americans, European and Middle Eastern immigrants were respected professionals who built (...)

10 nov. 2008 | | Kesher Talk

Cell phones May be Sent From US to Cuba

The relaxation of laws forbidding private citizens to own cell phones in Cuba is a little like the law that prohibits both rich and poor from sleeping under bridges... “women and minorities hit hardest” ! On the radio today, it was noted that (...)

22 mai. 2008 | | Rob Port

Group wants US-Cuba cultural exchange

Nobody has a monopoly on truth. That’s the premise of Cubaresponde.org whose goal is to allow a free press in Cuba. The Net is a wonderful thing. It’s allowing People to People power to flourish, lighting dark corners and opening doors which (...)

15 mai. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Movimiento Critiano Liberación: Road to a democratic transition in Cuba

Steps to transition by Chrisitan movement "Liberación". MCL’s road to a democratic transition in Cuba • Varela Project (Proyecto Varela). Petition to the Government presented by 25,000 citizens under Art. 88 of the Cuban (...)

23 Apr. 2008 | | Carlos Payá

Cuban Forum: The First Steps toward Change

Without rights there is no justice, nor is there true national independence and liberty. Only with the recognition of citizens’ rights, both in law and in practice, can the people be truly sovereign and able to determine its life and its future. For (...)

11 Apr. 2008 | | Carlos Payá

How poor does Cuba look ?

The question is why anyone might think Cuba is doing OK, relative to northern Mexico. Megan McArdle offers (more than) two points : 3) Deep poverty is much more picturesque than moderate poverty. Poor countries have their old colonial buildings still (...)

27 fév. 2008 | | Marginal Revolution

The shortest speech ever....

Fidel Castro Cuba 2008 Cuba At the age of 81 years old Fidel Castro made his shortest speech ever... and since now on, steps down from the goverment. Are theses his last words? micmac08USA

20 Feb. 2008 | 2 comments | micmac08USA

Many people embarrass themselves over Fidel Castro

Here is one menagerie, with Brad DeLong parrying ably. A simple checklist would start with the question of whether an apologist has visited both the Dominican Republic and Cuba. And a non-communist Cuba could have done much better than the DR. It is a (...)

20 fév. 2008 | | Marginal Revolution

Retiring in Florida ? Not for everybody

20 Feb. 2008 | 1 comment | Chris Hugo

Why Cuba will do better in a pandemic than the US

Cuba has announced it has established a monitoring system for bird flu. I don’t know any of the details except that they have trained personnel for the purpose and they say they have invested millions of dollars and are following what goes on (...)

23 jui. 2007 | 2 comments | Effect Measure

Michael Moore Uses 9/11 Victims To Shill For Communism, Castro

Disgusting... April 15, 2007-Filmmaker Michael Moore’s production company took ailing Ground Zero responders to Cuba in a stunt aimed at showing that the U.S. health-care system is inferior to Fidel Castro’s socialized medicine, according to (...)

16 avr. 2007 | 1 comment | Rob Port

Havana Meeting : A Potential Breakthrough ?

The NAM summit in Havana, Cuba has just recently been concluded. Moderation, harmony, and reason are the new moods echoed by the NAM member states in the post summit. Condemnation against all acts of terrorism, focus on poverty alleviation as well as full (...)

19 sep. 2006 | | Ahmad Qisa’i