Thanks to Walter Lippmann, editor of the CubaNews list, for providing this information. Here are two paragraphs from the very bottom of the speech to which readers’s attention is drawn: “In the United States, as in many other democracies, it is legal and acceptable for private organizations to raise money abroad and receive grants from foreign […]
June 17, 2010
On June 15, 2010, the BBC’s /Hardtalk/ program broadcast an wide-ranging interview with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez from the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. The interviewer, Stephen Sackur, clearly intended to provoke Chavez with a series of ill-informed and outright dishonest claims and questions. He did not succeed. In 3 parts and around 25 minutes […]
April 9, 2010
Castros sabotage ending U.S. Cuba embargo: Clinton Reuters Friday, April 9, 2010; 8:13 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cuba’s President Raul Castro and his brother, ex-leader Fidel Castro, have sought to sabotage U.S. moves to improve ties because they fear it will threaten their power, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. Clinton […]
July 3, 2010
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