U.S. foreign policy – Page 18

It’s time to return Guantánamo to Cuba

February 28, 2014 By Manuel E. Yepe

The naval station at Guantánamo Bay was established in 1898 when the U.S. gained control of Cuba from Spain, when the Spanish colonial forces were about to be defeated by the Cuban independence fighters.

Ukrainian ultra-rightists given major cabinet posts in government

February 28, 2014 By Greg Rose

The Svoboda Party has scored six cabinet ministries in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday. Svoboda is an ultra-right, anti-Semitic, Russophobic party with its base of support in the Western Ukraine.

Venezuela’s Bolivarian government defends against rightist violence

February 18, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government is facing its biggest challenge since his electoral victory on April 14, 2013 - still unrecognized by the U.S. government.

Sudan: Colonialism’s dead hand

February 11, 2014 By Conn Hallinan

Hopefully the recent ceasefire agreement between the warring parties in South Sudan will halt that country's downward spiral into civil war.

U.S. influence figures in Honduran presidential race

October 22, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Honduras chooses a president on November 24, and Xiomara Castro, candidate of the new Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre) is running. Three U.S. congresspersons have some election advice for Secretary of State John Kerry.