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January 27, 2012 | CDA
As we predicted last week and wrote about in the Huffington Post, the primary campaign in Florida has turned into a Cuba policy pander-fest. Three of the four candidates campaigning for the Republican nomination to be president promised to overthrow the Cuban government, returning U.S. policy toward Cuba and the region to… read more »
January 26, 2012 | CDA
NYT OP-ED: In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U.S.
Dana Frank, New York Times-It’s time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights… read more »
January 25, 2012 | CDA
Achy Obejas: The Florida Winner? Barack. Here’s why.
In the lead up to Florida’s January 31st primary, candidates Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum are engaged in a bidding war for the votes of Cuban Americans. Despite their red meat rhetoric, Achy Obejas, a Cuban-American author and journalist, argues in her insightful piece that President Obama is the real winner… read more »
January 24, 2012 | Linda Garrett
By Linda Garrett – The theme in El Salvador shifted quickly from mourning to the subject of militarization, from the victims of a massacre to bewildering personnel moves. Just one week after President Funes publicly held the Atlacatl Battalion of the Armed Forces responsible for the 1981 El Mozote massacre,… read more »
January 23, 2012 | CDA
VIDEO: Interview with Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martínez on 20th anniversary of Peace Accords
On our latest trip to El Salvador, CDA had an exclusive interview with Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martínez about the importance of President Funes’ speech at the site of the El Mozote massacre on the 20th anniversary of the signing of El Salvador’s Peace Accords.
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