Archive for the 'Cuba' Category
From The Nation:
Myth 1. It’s a dangerous world. We face an array of serious national security threats that require an experienced Commander in Chief.
Myth 2. The surge has worked. To withdraw from Iraq now would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and embolden Islamic extremists.
Myth 3. We cannot allow Afghanistan to become a safe […]
There are going to be many things said - and hoped - in the wake of Fidel Castro’s resignation.
Ultimately, he was not “toppled” by American agents, he succumbed to health. One wonders how close Castro is to his end, but clearly, his legacy will be that of the most resilient leader of the 20th century. […]
Man, it just gets better with this clown.
Campaigning in Miami Monday with powerful Cuban American leaders, Mike Huckabee made this promise:
“As president, I commit that we would veto any legislation that would lift the embargo that is currently in place, because we must keep that pressure on.”
But that hard-line position on Cuba is an about-face […]
From Conde Nast’s latest magazine, Portfolio:
I’m in the U.S. Airways Shuttle Terminal at La Guardia. It’s a late night in October, and I run into a senior economic official from the Clinton administration. We catch up on friends, and I tell him that I’m working on a column about the U.S. economic […]
For the 16th year in a row:
The U.N. General Assembly voted for the 16th straight year Tuesday to urge the United States to end its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister accused the U.S. of stepping up its “brutal economic war” to new heights.
The 192-member world body approved a resolution calling for the 46-year-old […]
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination.
“The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket […]
Well this is interesting:
The CIA worked with two of the country’s most-wanted criminals in a botched attempt to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro in a “gangster-type action” in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday.
The CIA declassified hundreds of pages of long-secret records that detail some of the agency’s worst […]