In 2012, the White House will focus on the most important of international and national issues: the re-election of the President. U.S.-Cuba policy will fall into “Next Year’s” box - or the year after that. The National Security staff reverts to its familiar positions on relations with that troublesome island: ignorance and arrogance…
Published by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., this 100-plus pages paper diagnoses the main problem of the Cuban economy as ‘an outdated model of central planning’ and argues for constructive engagement by the international financial institutions and U.S. policy makers aimed at strengthening the pace of internal economic reforms in Cuba.
Throughout 2004 and 2005, Haiti’s unelected de facto authorities, working alongside foreign officials, integrated at least 400 ex-army paramilitaries into the country’s police force, secret U.S. Embassy cables reveal…
If there had been a CNN, a Fox News or a BBC three hundred and fifty years ago - in 1652 - Barbados would have been the leading international news story of the day! All over the world, people would have been talking about the remarkable news of the signing of the Charter of Barbados ..
The Lloyd Best Institute has announced the ‘Common Sense Convois’ to be held in Trinidad and Tobago March 18-25 2012, ‘a civic intervention designed to influence the shape of the next 50 years of the Caribbean and to network the region in a common conversation about the Caribbean and its future’.
The 21 Cuba International Book Fair’2012 will be held from February 9th to the 19th, 2012.It will pay tribute to the Bicentennial of the rebellion organized by José Antonio Aponte against the Spanish colonial empire in Cuba and the Centennial of the Colored Independent Party members’ uprising. It will also honor our many Caribbean cultures, envisioned as a great cultural melting pot, diverse and at the same time integrated by their common history..
Beyond disappointment at the slow progress of reconstruction, many Haitians and Haitian Americans have begun to lose faith. We have begun to wonder if the sharp divisions of class and color in Haiti are an unavoidable obstacle to progress, and realize that they must be overcome for the poor Caribbean nation of 10 million to move forward…
As professionals with collectively hundreds of years of experience in intelligence, foreign policy, and counterterrorism, we are concerned about the gross misrepresentation of facts being bruited about to persuade you to start another war…
There is a lot of discussion about Cuba and Internet access and how many Cubans are not connected to it. Oddly enough, most of the critics assume that having access is merely dependent on political will. A recent report by Nick Miroff for NPR’s “All Things Considered” was titled “In Cuba, Dial-Up Internet Is a Luxury.” The report did not address the issues of infrastructure cost; rather, those matters were disregarded…
