Xinhua – The peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group resumed in Cuba on Monday amid optimistic expectations and sadness over the death of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. The two sides continued their sixth round of talks on land and rural… read more »
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Tag Archives: FARC
January 4, 2013
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: To Ring in the New, we have to Wring out the Old way of Doing Things
At the beginning of 2013, there’s a lot of attention being paid to the precarious health of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, fighting his cancer in a Havana hospital. While some of the analysis seems genuine and reality-based – see, for example, Caracas Connect here, Just the Facts here, and the… 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 »
November 16, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: The Paralysis of Analysis and the Politics of Denial
As we predicted last week, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo of Cuba. This was not, we confess, a very difficult prediction to make, since the U.N. has made this statement for twenty years. We also predict the U.N. will keep on doing so… read more »
October 19, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Opening the Flawed Gates
In the U.S. and overseas, Cuba’s government has been criticized for limiting the travel rights of its own citizens. Those restrictions are often cited as an obstacle to the improvement of bi-lateral relations. But now, change has come. Today, we explain this new Cuban government policy that offers its citizens… read more »
September 21, 2012
*** As we published this week’s blast, news alerts were issued that the “People’s Mujehedeen,” or MEK, is being removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, based in part, the NY Times is reporting, on the MEK’s cooperation in moving 3,000 of its members out of its long… read more »
September 4, 2012
Colombian rebels call rare news conference in Cuba, expected to discuss possible peace talks
AP- Cuba’s government called a news conference Tuesday in which it is anticipated that Colombia’s main leftist rebel group could announce the start of talks to end a half-century-old conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced last week that preliminary talks to… read more »
August 31, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: What the FARC is going on in Cuba?
What the FARC is going on in Cuba? And what does it mean for President Obama and the crowd of hardliners in Congress we call the Cold War warriors? We figured something was up last Sunday, when former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe accused current president Juan Manuel Santos of holding… read more »
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