On August 9, the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Appellate Court threw out the convictions of the Cuban Five, a stunning acknowledgement of injustice committed in the administration’s troubled fight against terrorism. The Five were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage by …
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Unfinished Business: Why Luis Posada Carriles, an Admitted Cuban Exile Terrorist, Should Face Justice in Venezuela
On October 6, 1976 a bomb on Cubana Airlines Flight 455 between Trinidad and Havana exploded, killing all 73 people on board. Luis Posada Carriles, a 77-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and foreign fugitive, is allegedly the mastermind behind the atrocity, …
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Noriega, Bolton and Condoleezza Rice’s New Financial Subsidy to Rightwing Cuban America
Last Thursday, in a move that further cheapened the Bush administration’s already tawdry Latin American policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the creation of a new State Department staff position to implement recommendations of the U.S. Commission for Assistance …
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Antigua and Barbuda Sells Out Over Whaling; Central America’s Ominous New Security Force; Congress Signals Change on Cuba; Venezuela’s Oil-for-Votes Generosity Fishing for Votes: Japan Bribes the Caribbean at the International Whaling Commission Harsh words and accusations of bribery were …
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The Not So Odd Couple: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro
In late 2004, President Hugo Chávez nearly doubled Venezuela’s daily oil barrel deliveries to Cuba and Havana doubled the number of healthcare professionals and teachers it was stationing in Venezuela. The ongoing relationship between Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro began …
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