W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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Ailí Labañino in Australia talks about the Cuban Five
September 4, 2014The Cuban Five, arrested by the FBI in Miami on September 12, 1998, were political prisoners; three still are.
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U.S. covert operation against Cuban youth condemned
August 8, 2014USAID hired young people from Peru, Costa Rica, and Venezuela to pose as tourists in Cuba to befriend young Cubans and try to convert them into anti-government activists.
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Cuba’s “Operation Miracle” celebrated throughout Latin America
July 21, 2014The U.S. public knows almost nothing about this internationalized project involving the restoration of vision for enormous numbers of people.
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Colombia peace talks to continue, for now, after Santos re-election
June 24, 2014It's evident a week after President Juan Manuel Santos won re-election with 51 percent of the vote that his government's peace negotiations with the FARC, in progress for 18 months, will be continuing.
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Fixing U.S. intervention capabilities in Cuba
May 23, 2014What people think seemingly has little effect on ending what Cubans say is the longest and cruelest economic blockade in human history. Polls show overall U.S. disapproval, Cuban-Americans included.
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Cuba arrests presumed terrorists from Florida
May 15, 2014The Miami area continues as a safe haven for Latin American terror perpetrators fleeing their homelands, Cuba in the lead with Venezuela not far behind.
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Colombian peace talks in serious jeopardy
May 13, 2014After reaching partial agreements on agrarian reform and political participation, negotiators tackled drug trafficking. But after five months of discussion, they recessed without an agreement.
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U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting pays foreign journalists to defame Cuba
May 8, 2014The U.S. OCB paid almost $700,000 to journalists and other opinion molders in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America in return for their dissemination of anti-Cuban propaganda.
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