W. T. Whitney Jr.

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a political journalist whose focus is on Latin America, health care, and anti-racism. A Cuba solidarity activist, he formerly worked as a pediatrician, and lives in rural Maine.

LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.

World

Cuba’s “Operation Miracle” celebrated throughout Latin America
July 21, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
The 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, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
It'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, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
What 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, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
The 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, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
After 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, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
The 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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U.S. says Cuba still a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”
May 5, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
Beginning in 1982 the list has included Cuba as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism." Others this year are Iran, Sudan, and Syria.
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Venezuelan opposition attacks Cuban health workers
April 29, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.
Cuban doctors contribute to the long term construction of systems of public health throughout the global South, health systems that were abandoned or disregarded during decades of neo-liberalism.
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