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March 29, 2013

CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Baseball in Cuba: Changeups or Regime Change?

With the start of regular season Major League Baseball on Monday, it’s a fitting moment to talk about the sport which has bound the U.S. and Cuba together since the 19th century. Like everything else, baseball couldn’t escape the politics and propaganda that have surrounded the relationship over the last three… 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 »

December 14, 2012

CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Advice and Dissent: What Happens on Cuba if John Kerry and Chuck Hagel Join Obama’s Cabinet?

The staff of the Center for Democracy in the Americas wishes to acknowledge the horrific gun tragedy that took place in Connecticut today, offer our condolences to the families affected by the violence, and remember that this is the eighth mass shooting that we have experienced in the U.S. this year. 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 »

November 9, 2012

On Next Week’s Vote (the U.N.) and Last Week’s Vote (the U.S.)

On November 13th, the U.N. General Assembly will vote on a resolution titled the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” The General Assembly has voted against U.S. policy for twenty straight years.  In 2011, the resolution passed by… read more »

October 2, 2012

El Salvador Update: August-September 2012

After a long, hot summer of fierce political battles, marathon negotiating sessions, and international pressure, on August 19th political leaders reached an agreement on the contentious issue of Supreme Court justices. The clash over the constitutionality of elections to the Supreme Court was considered by some analysts to be the most serious political crisis since the 1992 Peace Accords. The settlement – mediated by President Funes – was presented as a Solomonic decision with both ARENA and the FMLN making concessions. But, it would appear that the FMLN and its allied parties conceded a little less: the new president of the Constitutional Court— and thus of the full Supreme Court – is José Salomon Padilla, a member of the FMLN.

October 2, 2012

El Salvador: Informe mensual agosto-septiembre del 2012

Resumen: Después de un largo y caluroso verano de enconadas batallas políticas, sesiones maratónicas de negociación y presiones internacionales, el 19 de agosto, los dirigentes políticos finalmente lograron un acuerdo sobre el tema contencioso de los jueces de la Corte Suprema de Justicia. En opinión de algunos analistas, los choques… read more »

September 7, 2012

CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Not Like Oil and Water – Cuba and the US Can Cooperate on Drilling

During the research and writing phase for our report on Cuba’s plans to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, Daniel Whittle, Cuba Program Director for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), provided invaluable information and guidance to us. He has guest written the following opening essay on his organization’s… read more »

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