Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest News reports on May 19 announced that more than 10,000 square miles of the Amazon rainforest had been deforested over the last year – an area the size of Massachusetts. Not only is the Amazon …
Category Archive: Argentina to Cuba
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Posada, U.S.-Mexico Relations and Brazil-Argentina Rivalry
Treatment of Posada Will Test Integrity of Washington’sAnti-Terrorism Crusade The Bush administration’s response to the Luis Posada Carriles case brings to mind its similar mishandling of the 2002 attempted coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The White House cheered the …
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Malice, Contradictions and the Lack of Fair Play in the Bush Administration’s War on Terrorism: The Case of the Cuban Five
While the Bush administration demands a clear-sighted “good versus evil” dichotomy in the war on terror, self-serving double standards afford the U.S. the right to apply custom tailored anti-terrorism sanctions on other nations while ignoring calls to abide by the …
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Cuba, the U.N. Human Rights Commission and the OAS Race
The United States successfully presented a resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission criticizing Cuba’s human rights record. This year’s document, deemed as “mild,” passed with 21 votes supporting it, 17 against and 15 abstentions. Even though such resolutions on …
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Checkmate by Default: Insulza Wins OAS Race because he is the Sole Candidate that Remains
In a not-so surprising last-minute denouement, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez withdrew from the OAS secretariat race. José Miguel Insulza, Chile’s minister of the interior remained the sole surviving candidate for the position, making him the winner by default. …
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