AFP – Cuba on Tuesday unveiled rules for its first free trade manufacturing zone, a vast $900 million project being paid for mostly by Brazil in the port of Mariel near Havana. The Mariel Special Development Zone, a major trial balloon being floated by President Raul Castro’s communist government, is slated to… read more »
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Tag Archives: Brazil
March 7, 2013
Latin America After Chávez: Lula da Silva, former president of Brazil
Lula da Silva, The New York Times – History will affirm, justifiably, the role Hugo Chávez played in the integration of Latin America, and the significance of his 14-year presidency to the poor people of Venezuela, where he died on Tuesday after a long struggle with cancer. However, before history… read more »
March 5, 2013
Tributes to Hugo Chávez flow from South American leaders
Jonathan Watts, The Guardian – Tributes and condolences after the death of Hugo Chávez have flowed in from South America, where many saw the Venezuelan president as the inspiration behind increased regional intergration and the remarkable political gains of leftwing parties since the Venezuelan president began his “Bolivarian revolution”. Bolivia announced seven days… read more »
November 30, 2012
Cuba Central Newsblast:Double Talk at State and Doubling Down on USAID’s Regime Change Strategy
We report on a flurry of activity concerning the case of Alan Gross, just days before the third anniversary of his arrest in Cuba, an event marked at a press conference in Washington this morning by his wife Judy Gross, understandably disconsolate, with his lawyer, Jared Genser, by her side…. read more »
October 12, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Talk to Cuba
An article published this week by The Cable ran with the headline “Top Romney Advisor supports negotiating with terrorists.” It told the story of Mitchell Reiss, named one year ago, to a top spot on the Governor’s campaign foreign policy team. In a 2010 book, Reiss presented “an argument that… read more »
May 1, 2012
Latin America Opens Up to Equality
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, The New York Times- Quietly and against the odds, women are stepping up the political ladder in Latin America, moving ahead of the United States when it comes to political empowerment and closely matching much of Western Europe. The Latin America-Caribbean region, once a caldron of machismo… read more »
March 14, 2012
Last Americas Summit without Cuba, agree Argentina and Brazil
MercoPress - “This has to be the last summit in which Cuba does not participate”, said Argentine minister Hector Timerman, standing next to Brazil’s Antonio Patriota. The presence of Cuba is necessary so that “finally we have a Summit of the Americas” Patriota recalled that at the previous summit then President… read more »
February 7, 2012
Sarah Stephens: “Cuba quer decidir seu futuro por si mesma”
ÉPOCA Magazine, Brazil – Sarah Stephens é diretora do Center for Democracy in the Americas há seis anos, desde sua fundação, e atua ao lado de políticos, jornalistas e entidades da sociedade civil na promoção de debates sobre a política externa dos EUA em relação à América. Segundo ela, o… read more »
February 3, 2012
In his perceptive essay, “The Debate the GOP Didn’t Have in Florida,” Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, expresses discouragement at the Republican candidates who debated in Florida twice last week. He writes: To the extent Latin America was treated at all, the discussion has been dominated by phantom… read more »
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