Mickey Martelly has appointed Bill Clinton to chair an advisory board on economic development and investment in Haiti (see article below). If you add this appointment to his position as head of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission and his service as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, he has all the poker chips. One of […]
August 16, 2011
CIA declassifies more Bay of Pigs documents The Bay of Pigs invasion was hampered by major confusion and mixed signals, according to newly released documents. Related Content Volume I: Part I (March, 1960 – April, 1961) Volume I: Part II (March, 1960 – April, 1961) Volume I: Part III (March, 1960 – April, 1961) Volume […]
August 13, 2011
Today, August 13, i s the 85th birthday of Fidel Castro. Two videos: the first is of President Evo Morales of Bolivia talking about Fidel and the great impact he has had around the world ; the second video is a true treasure – Fidel in his own words. Viva Fidel!
August 12, 2011
The following Democracy Now video and Nation magazine article reveal how a shameless US and its equally shameless diplomatic counterparts from France, Canada, the UN and the Vatican collaborated to keep former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to Haiti after the 2004 coup. Edmond Mulet, a Guatemalan diplomat who served as head of the UN […]
August 3, 2011
Martelly was put in office, not by the people of Haiti, but through the electoral sorcery of the Organization of American States under the direction of the US. Without a real mandate, Martelly is finding how tough it is to form a government and is in a pickle now that the Parliament has formally rejected […]
June 19, 2011
Cuba Discredits USA and its Allies in Geneva Escrito por Ileana Ferrer Fonte jueves, 16 de junio de 2011 16 de junio de 2011, 10:12 Geneva, Jun 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuba on Thursday discredited the United States and its Western allies in the UN Human Rights Council because of their persistent, savage criticism of countries […]
June 3, 2011
PROGRESO WEEKLY Sanctions on Venezuela: A known history Wednesday, 01 June 2011 14:45 By Jesús Arboleya Cervera Assistant Secretary of State James Steinberg recently announced Hillary Clinton’s decision to impose sanctions on seven foreign companies, including Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), for “cooperating with Iran’s energy industry,” which, according to what the Secretary stated, violates the […]
May 23, 2011
Obama’s Latin America Policy: Continuity Without ChangeBy Mark Weisbrot This article was written for and published by the journal, Latin American Perspectives, May 2011. When Latin America’s left presidents watched the campaign of Barack Obama for president in 2008, they thought that they might finally see a U.S. president who would change Washington’s foreign policy […]
May 6, 2011
Reflections by Comrade Fidel THE ASSASSINATION OF OSAMA BIN LADEN Those persons who deal with these issues know that on September 11 of 2001 our people expressed its solidarity to the US people and offered the modest cooperation that in the area of health we could have offered to the victims of the brutal attack […]
April 21, 2011
President Aristide’s most popular decision while in office was to abolish the Haitian army. With no foreign enemies and a ridiculous drain on Haiti’s precious annual budget, getting rid of the army was a wise fiscal decision. But, the decision’s popularity was because the primary source of state-sponsored repression against the Haitian people would be […]
September 12, 2011
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