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Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

January 10, 2023

A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum. Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they could be legally imposed on South Africa by a resolution of the UN General Assembly […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela | Leave a response

Photo: Teri Mattson, Workers’ Summit, Tijuana, at the U.S. Border Wall

“Summit of Exclusion” Backfires on Biden

June 14, 2022

Jill Clark-Gollub, COHA Assistant Editor/Translator; Alina Duarte, COHA Senior Fellow; John Perry, COHA Senior Fellow “We would definitely have wanted a different Summit of the Americas. The silence of those absent challenges us. So that this does not happen again, I would like to state for the future that the fact of being the host […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela | 1 Response

The Summit of the Americas could be Biden’s next foreign policy embarrassment

The Summit of the Americas could be Biden’s next foreign policy embarrassment

May 16, 2022

The grandly named Summit of the Americas is due to be held in Los Angeles next month, if the Biden administration can decide who to invite and what to talk about if they turn up. As things stand, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Honduras and most of the Caribbean states have said they will not attend if […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, US intervention | 1 Response

The Cuban Revolution in the 21st Century

The Cuban Revolution in the 21st Century

January 13, 2019

A review of a book by George Lambie. Those who love Cuba live in fear that what seems an inevitable future change towards a more market-oriented economy will sweep away all that is good about the country – its excellent health system, the absence of extreme poverty, its schools, its largely crime-free streets and the […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Cuba, US intervention

The man with the typewriter

The man with the typewriter

April 12, 2018

On 9 April 1948, the Colombian politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán stepped out of his office with a group of friends to walk to Bogotá’s Hotel Continental for lunch. An assassin confronted him in the street and shot him three times in the face and chest. He died shortly afterwards. His supporters caught the 20-year-old culprit, […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, Colombia, Latin writers | 1 Response

Fidel and Gabo

Fidel and Gabo

December 17, 2017

A review of Fidel & Gabo: A portrait of a legendary friendship, by Angel Esteban and Stephanie Panichelli Two of the best-known Latin American figures of the twentieth century, Fidel Castro and Gabriel Garcia Márquez (Gabo) were close friends. This book claims to be the story of their relationship, but does it do it justice? […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Cuba, Colombia, Latin writers

Photo: Steve Helber/Associated Press

No separate queue for Cubans

January 17, 2017

‘We’re leaving,’ my Cuban friend N. told me in November. ‘We’re building a raft.’ I was shocked, partly because he planned to leave, partly because of the way he planned to do it. I consulted another friend, who’d spent several months in a coastguard team, hauling people out of the water when their rafts fell […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention, migration | 2 Responses

Street sign in San Diego, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Hitch-hiking or bottling?

December 29, 2016

A few years ago, outside Cuba’s main towns, hitch-hiking was the main way of getting around. State-run buses were few and far between, trains (despite Cuba having the most extensive network in Latin America) might be scheduled to run at least once daily – but whether they ran at all was always subject to a […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: environment, Cuba

Signing the book of condolences for Fidel Castro in Managua: the flags are those of the Sandinista Front and of the Republic of Nicaragua

Forget Fidel Castro’s policies?

November 29, 2016

This letter to the Guardian, below, is in response to a piece by Zoe Williams, Forget Fidel Castro’s policies. What matters is that he was a dictator. Zoe Williams’ usually excellent judgment has let her down when she says of Fidel Castro that “What matters is that he was a dictator”, because she forgets the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention | 3 Responses

The Last Soldiers of the Cold War

November 28, 2016

A review of the book by Fernando Morais On February 24, 1996, three small planes set off from Florida, planning to enter Cuban airspace over Havana and drop propaganda leaflets. They were piloted by members of Brothers to the Rescue, one of the many anti-Castro organisations that were then not only trying to reverse the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention

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