Cuba

Right-Wing Extremists Unmoved by Devastation in Cuba

Joe Garcia | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Garcia, Caribbean, Hurricane Relief, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Ike, Cuba, Gustav, Cuban Americans, Politics News
Joe Garcia

The greatest impediment to the wellbeing of the Cuban people is the Cuban government itself. But this fact does not give us license to throw our hands in the air and not offer our help.

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Ike Sights Texas, Gains Strength After Devastating Cuba

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 09.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Extreme Weather, Hurricane Ike, Ike, Hurricanes, Texas, Cuba, Green News

HAVANA — Hurricane Ike grew stronger as it barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday toward the Texas coast af...

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How Mean Can the Bush Administration Be?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Disaster Relief, Cuba, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike, Foreign Aid, US Foreign Aid, Condi Rice, Hurricane, Embargo, Fidel Castro, Cuban Relief Aid, Disaster Aid, Relief Aid, Cuban Aid, Hurricane Aid, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

The Bush administration has offered $100,000 worth of aid to hurricane-battered Cuba; this is but a pittance compared to what is needed by one of our closest neighbors. Someone should remind Bush that the Cold War is over.

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Cuba Needs Emergency Aid After Hurricanes Gustav and Ike

Richard Walden | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Gustav, Condoleeza Rice, Cuba, Humanitarian Aid, Trade Embargo, Operation Usa, Politics News
Richard Walden

With even Miami's hardline Congressional delegation asking for official US assistance, Rice stands alone in her obstinacy towards Cuba.

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Gustav Floods Haiti, Kills 11, Heads Toward Cuba

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Extreme Weather, Hurricanes, Hurricane Gustav, Gustav, Haiti, Cuba, Home News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Gustav stalled offshore Wednesday and poured more misery onto Haiti after landslides and flooding killed 23 people. Oil ...

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Obama on Latin America

Laura Carlsen | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Venezuela, Obama, Nafta, Cuba, Latin America, Politics News
Laura Carlsen

Although it isn't a headline-grabber these days, the debate over Latin American policy raises matters that deeply affect people south of our border and the millions of Americans with family ties to the region.

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What storm? Keys take Tropical Storm Fay in stride

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green

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KEY WEST, Fla. — Two years since a hurricane last lashed at Florida, many residents took a wait-and-see attitude Monday as a strengthening Tropi...

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Withdrawing From ABM Was Destabilizing: Here's Proof

Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Anti-Ballistic Missile, Nuclear Weapons, ABM Treaty, Nuclear Arms, Russia, Bush Foreign Policy, Cuba, Bush, Foreign Policy, Sean Paul Kelley, Politics News
Sean-Paul Kelley

Think about consequences. Is it really a good trade-off to station a missile shield in Europe, one that has not even been proven to work, for having Russian bombers 90 miles south of Florida?

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Al Sharpton For Human Rights in Cuba?

Roger Hernandez | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Prisoners, Human Rights Abuses, Cuba, Reverend Al Sharpton, Politics News
Roger Hernandez

Activist in black causes, Sharpton asked the Cuban gov. to allow him into the country to learn about the situation of political prisoners. But is he also concerned about imprisoned dissidents who are not black?

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Are There Some Terrorists that are OK by Lieberman? A Call for Senator Lieberman to Recant

Steve Clemons | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Southern Command, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Terrorism, Joseph Lieberman, Max Kampelman, Lexington Institute, Phil Peters, Patrick Doherty, Palestine, Cuba, The Havana Note, US-Cuba Policy, Invasion, Fbi, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Lieberman agreed to carry to Bush a "pardon request" for a convict that the FBI sent to prison for terror activities aimed against Cuba.

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In Cuba This Summer, The Carrot and The Stick

David Paul Appell | Posted 07.18.2008 | World

Read More: Castro, Raul Castro, Cuba Land Reform, Embargo, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Policy, Cuban Embargo, Cuba, Dissidents, Foreign Policy, World News
David Paul Appell

Since Fidel Castro stepped aside last February, there has in fact been real change afoot down in Cuba. The nation's development is more than cosmetic: it's a matter of survival for the ruling class.

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Are Cuba's Schools Better than Ours?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Test Scores, Schools, Cuba, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

Maybe we could learn something from the Cubans about the rights we deny many of our children -- a safe environment, decent health care, and schools that guarantee them high levels of learning

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Barack Obama, Comunista y Terrorista? / Communist and Terrorist?

David Paul Appell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

The U.S. doesn't have to embrace Cuba at this time, but we do need to engage, because if we don't evolve too, history won't absolve us. Obama understands this.

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EU Lifts Cuba Sanctions

AP | JAN SLIVA | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: European Union, Eu, Cuba, Cuba Sanctions, Eu Cuba Sanctions, Eu Ifts Cuba Sanctions, Politics News

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the com...

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Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Youth Communist Union

CNN | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elian Gonzalez, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Castro's Young Communists, Politics News

The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. President Fidel Castro, left,...

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Obama's Crucial AIPAC Speech

Trey Ellis | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, John McCain, Cuba, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Obama Cuba, Obama AIPAC, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News
Trey Ellis

With John McCain now in his sights, tomorrow's AIPAC speech is the perfect opportunity for Obama to lay out a compelling, transformative roadmap for the future of American foreign policy.

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McCain and the Cuba Libre

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Cuba, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, McCain Cuban Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Fidel Castro, McCain Cuba, Cuban Embargo, Raul Castro, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

John McCain seems intent on embracing every failed policy of the Bush administration. Iraq, check; top end tax cuts, check. Privatization of Social Security, check. Unraveling employer based health care, check. And this weekend, McCain boldly informed the remnants of the Miami Cuban expatriots that he will sustain the most egregiously failed US policy of them all -- the Cuban embargo.

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Obama Will Give Reform in Cuba a Nudge if Not a Shove

David Paul Appell | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Foreign Policy, Cuba Embargo, John McCain, Latin America, Joe Garcia, Annette Taddeo, U.S. Cuba Policy, Mario Diaz-Balart, Cuban Voters, Cuban Americans, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, John McCain Raul Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Cuba, John McCain Foreign Policy, Raul Martinez, Raul Castro Cuban President, Castro, Politics News
David Paul Appell

In declaring his administration would meet with the Raúl Castro regime without preconditions, Obama was not being naïve but impeccably realistic.

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Obama in Florida: Hooray for Substance!

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Clinton Assassination, Hillary Clinton, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

In a campaign that's dully repetitive, Obama did something worth noting. He took his politics of engagement to Florida and presented it to the bulwarks of the Cuban embargo.

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Obama says his Cuba policy is based on 'Libertad'

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Cuba, Cuba Policy, Obama Cuba Policy, Politics News

MIAMI — Sen. Barack Obama, who once said he would meet Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions, added Friday that he would do so "only wh...

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Jason Linkins

Cuba Now Officially A Part Of McCain's Year 2013 Fantasy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, 2013, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News

As we've already seen, the John McCain candidacy is more or less based upon the premise and the promise that if America can hang on until the year 201...

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A Personal Ethical Challenge and Grover Norquist's "Black Bag"

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ann Coulter, Jon Stewart, On Day One, Better World Campaign, Stephen Colbert, Grover Norquist, Cuba, Abramoff, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I don't keep a secret of the fact that Grover Norquist and his wife Samah are friends of mine -- and I just had him in to speak at the New America F...

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Next Mothers Day Let's Invite the Whole Family

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Codepink, Soldiers, Iraq, Cuba, Mother's Day, Terrorism, Mother Earth, Politics News
Medea Benjamin

Next Mothers Day, I don't want to be organizing yet another rally of Mothers Against War in Washington DC and lamenting the state of our dysfunctional...

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Burma's Cyclone, China's Earthquake, America's Katrina

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Foreign Aid, Burma, Cyclone, Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, Cuba, Aid Shipments, China, Myanmar, Chinese Earthquake, Home News
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The Bush Administration should go after the Myanmar junta for not letting well-meaning foreign governments deliver relief-- except that the Bush Administration did the same thing when we needed relief.

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Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cuba, Cubans Computers, Raul Castro, Politics News

HAVANA — Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, endi...

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