Sarah Stephens and Philip Brenner, Politico- The Obama administration, in a stunning turn of events, is using authority under a Reagan-era proclamation to bar some of Cuba’s most vibrant and candid intellectuals from entering the United States. This decision prevents these leading academics from attending a Latin America Studies Association… read more »
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Tag Archives: Summit of the Americas
May 1, 2012
Informe Mensual: El Salvador, Abril del 2012
Si bien la Cumbre de las Américas estuvo colmada de frustraciones para el Presidente Obama, en el caso del jefe de Estado de El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, este acontecimiento de dos días resultó ser todo un éxito. En su discurso ante los participantes de la Cumbre, el Presidente Funes pudo anunciar por primera vez durante los casi tres años de su administración que el sábado 14 de abril hubo “cero homicidios” en este país. Esto obedece a un frágil acuerdo de cese al fuego entre las dos pandillas más grandes del país, la MS y Barrio 18.
April 27, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Florida’s Foreign Policy and the eternal cynicism of the sunshine mind
In Florida, relations with Cuba are serious business. Ask Miami Marlin’s manager Ozzie Guillen, publicly shamed and forced to apologize to save his job for talking about Fidel Castro’s longevity. Or worse, ask Airline Brokers Company, a Coral Gables-based travel provider that recently helped fly 340 pilgrims to Cuba for… read more »
April 17, 2012
The Los Angeles Times- Once again, Cuba was absent from the Summit of the Americas. Yet the communist nation might as well have attended the gathering last weekend in Cartagena, Colombia, because it took center stage, despite U.S. efforts to focus on other issues. Ecuador’spresident refused to attend the summit… read more »
April 16, 2012
Obama wants ‘rigorous’ investigation of Secret Service prostitution claims
CNN Wire Staff, CNN- President Barack Obama called Sunday for a “thorough” and “rigorous” investigation into allegations involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents in Colombia. Some 11 Secret Service agents and officers are being investigated over preliminary findings that they allegedly brought back several prostitutes to a hotel in Cartagena,… read more »
April 15, 2012
Obama concludes Summit of the Americas on the defensive about inviting Cuba
Scott Wilson, Washington Post- President Obama concluded a contentious hemispheric summit on the defensive Sunday as it ended without agreement on whether Cuba’s Communist leaders should be invited to the next meeting, something the United States firmly opposes. The standoff meant that the sixth Summit of the Americas ended without… read more »
April 14, 2012
Obama open to new approaches in drug war, but not legalization
Mariano Castillo, CNN- Speaking Saturday at the Summit of the Americas, President Barack Obama said it is reasonable to debate alternatives in the war on drugs, but insisted legalizing drugs wasn’t a valid option in the United States. Obama voiced his view in his first public remarks at the hemispheric… read more »
April 14, 2012
Chavez to skip Americas summit on doctors’ advice
Anthony Boadle, Reuters- Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez will not attend this weekend’s hemispheric summit in Colombia and will instead fly straight to Cuba to continue radiation treatment for cancer, his foreign minister said on Saturday. The 57-year-old socialist leader said on Friday the radiation therapy was physically tiring and that… read more »
April 14, 2012
Obama finds U.S. campaign themes resonate at regional summit in Colombia
Scott Wilson, Washington Post- Close your eyes, ignore the language difference, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. presidential campaign had come to this antique walled city on the Caribbean. Or, more accurately, that the U.S. presidential campaign had caught up with an economic debate that has… read more »
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