Kathy Castor, Tampa’s representative in Congress, has got courage. Of the twenty-seven members of Florida’s delegation, only five have more Cuban Americans in their districts than she has living in hers. None but Castor has made the effort, as she did a few weeks ago, to visit Cuba. When Ms…. read more »
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Tag Archives: Elections in Venezuela
April 25, 2013
Havana Times: Caracas Connect: Photo Finish and a Lingering Controversy
HAVANA TIMES — The following is an extensive analysis and on-the-scene account by the Center for Democracy in the Americas of the recent Venezuelan elections that gave Nicolas Maduro a slight victory over challenger Henrique Capriles and the lingering controversy in the aftermath. Caracas Connect: Photo Finish and a Lingering… read more »
April 23, 2013
Caracas Connect, April 2013: Venezuela’s Elections- Photo Finish and a Lingering Controversy
Since the polls closed in Caracas on Sunday evening, April 14th, bringing a polarizing campaign to an end with a surprising photo finish, events in Venezuela have been fast moving. While Nicolás Maduro has been declared the winner, and sworn in as president, the controversy surrounding the campaign is outliving… read more »
April 19, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: With Boston in our thoughts
This was a violent, disheartening week in the United States. A town called West, Texas was knocked down by an explosion at a fertilizer plant that claimed at least a dozen lives and injured hundreds of others. Survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School and other massacres watched with broken hearts as… read more »
March 22, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Cuba and Climate Change
There is a scientific consensus that climate change is real. Not everyone agrees, but the people who don’t believe it are answering to an awfully scornful title: climate change deniers. Since assuming leadership in 2006, following the illness of his brother, President Raúl Castro initiated a gradual process to update… read more »
March 15, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Cuba A-Z (from Aruca to Zoo-bio)
The New York Times once described him as “a cheerful, box-shaped man with a face like a friendly bulldog.” Like a bulldog, Francisco Aruca was resolute and courageous, friendly with strangers and, when provoked, he was a force to be reckoned with. So, we were stricken when friends like Silvia… read more »
March 7, 2013
In South Bronx, Memories of Chávez and the Aid He Gave
Frances Robles, The New York Times -Lucia Solano became something of a stalker when Hugo Chávez visited the South Bronx in 2005. Ms. Solano’s organization, Servicio Basico Educativo, was $18,000 behind in rent and faced eviction. Mr. Chávez, she was sure, could help. He was the controversial leftist president of… read more »
February 15, 2013
Venezuela publishes first photos of Chavez since surgery
Daniel Wallis and Marianna Parraga, Reuters-Venezuela published the first photos of cancer-stricken Hugo Chavez since his surgery in Cuba more than two months ago, showing him smiling while lying in bed reading a newspaper, flanked by his two daughters. The government said on Friday that the 58-year-old president was still… read more »
February 8, 2013
Caracas Connect: Chávez Misses January 10 Inauguration – the aftermath
The inauguration of Hugo Chávez Frías for a new six year term as Venezuela’s president came and went on January 10th amid widespread speculation in the media about the condition of Chávez after his fourth operation for pelvic cancer and controversy about whether the Bolivarian Constitution requires a new election to be called within 30 days due to his absence.
January 14, 2013
Uncertainty looms over Venezuela
Al Jazeera-Daniel Hellinger, author of CDA’s Caracas Connect, joins Mark Weisbrot (Center for Economic and Policy Research) and Juan Carlos Hidalgo (Cato institute) on Inside Story Americas to discuss the absence of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez. Watch video here.
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