RSSCuba’s Fidel Castro is looking beyond his brother Raul to a younger generation of leadership for the Marxist state, after signalling for the first time his readiness to relinquish power. The Cuban leader, in a letter read on state television, strongly suggested that he may never come back to p[...]
Archive for 2007
December 19th, 2007 - 3:31 pm § in Cuba, In the News
Castro poised to pass on power to younger generation
Analysis: Venezuela helps Cuban refinery
By CARMEN GENTILE UPI Energy Correspondent MIAMI, Dec. 19 (UPI) — A Soviet-era oil refinery in Cuba is getting back online with the help of the communist island’s close regional ally and petroleum benefactor, Venezuela. Later this week Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is scheduled to arr[...]
December 18th, 2007 - 3:36 pm § in Cuba, In the News
Castro hints at stepping aside
By Agencies Fidel Castro has suggested he may formally give up his leadership posts. It is the first time the Cuban leader, who has not been seen in public for 16 months, has spoken of his possible retirement. Castro had surgery in July 2006 and is 81-years old. In a letter read out on Cuban televis[...]
Does the Merida Initiative represent a New Direction for U.S.-Mexico Relations, or Does It Simply Refocus the Issue Elsewhere?
- Help for Mexico: the U.S. plan to support Calderon’s counter-narcotic initiative criticized for its secrecy, its assumptions, and its questionable evidence.
- Washington is encouraged to tackle the deadly magnitude of illicit U.S. weapons sales to Mexico and the mechanisms of[...]
December 14th, 2007 - 9:12 am § in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Front Page, Guatemala, Guyana, Press Releases, Venezuela
Sulfurous Fumes Detected over Guyana: Latin America’s Ominous New Geopolitical Scene Involving Georgetown, Washington and Caracas
To Our Readers
Today, December 14, 2007, from 12:45 to 2:00pm COHA Director, Larry Birns, will Appear on the Fox Business Channel from Washington to Discuss the Bank of the South and other U.S.-Latin American Trade MattersDecember 14th, 2007 - 6:38 am § in In the News
Rising crime attributed to illegal drug trade
The Director of the Washington based Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Professor Larry Birns, has attributed the rising crime rate in Jamaica to the illegal drug trade. More than 1,000 persons have been murdered since the start of the year. Professor Larry Burns said although the Bruce Golding [...]
December 13th, 2007 - 8:48 am § in In the News
United States approves FTA
Democratically-controlled Congress satisfied with labor, environmental issues and approves trade pact. The United States Senate approved the free trade pact with Peru 77-18 Dec. 4, the final step in the controversial agreement’s passage since negotiations began in May 2004. US President George W. [...]
December 12th, 2007 - 11:19 am § in Caribbean, Front Page, Jamaica, Press Releases, Trinidad & Tobago
Containment in Their Shanty Towns is not a Solution: Constructive Engagement and not a Face-off between Gangs and New Jamaican Prime Minister is Needed
- • Jamaica should be a paradise not just for tourists, but also for day-to-day citizens trying to live out their lives
• London’s behavior towards its former colony based on deporting Jamaican criminals back to overcrowded Kingston jails does not do the job
• How much of the violenc[...]
To Risk Not Saving a Life: Abortion Ban in Nicaragua and its Societal Implications
- Once a born again Marxist and now upholding an ultramontane pedigree, the question is which is which when it comes to the puzzling Daniel Ortega?
- The mortmain of the Church when it comes to issues of justice and personal rights.
December 9th, 2007 - 8:57 am § in In the News
South Americans to form independent regional bank
By Lucas Bergman BUENOS AIRES, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Seven South American nations planned to found on Sunday a development bank to demonstrate their joint independence from multilateral lending practices that some have blamed for past economic crises. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay[...]