W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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U.S. says Cuba still a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”
May 5, 2014Beginning 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, 2014Cuban 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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Cuba, culture and the battle of ideas
April 25, 2014A wide ranging debate including the nature of socialism, Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union and its past.
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Gabo lives
April 21, 2014Novelist Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City. His 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" gained him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.
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Colombian court turns down political prisoner Liliany Obando’s appeal
April 15, 2014Obando is a sociologist and documentary filmmaker. A week before her arrest, she issued a report documenting the murders of 1500 FENSUAGRO union members. FENSUAGRO is Colombia's largest agricultural workers' union.
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Venezuela crisis is different this time, mostly
April 9, 2014Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's socialist-inclined government have been in the streets and causing disturbances since earlier February.
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Colombia: Jorge Gaitan and the struggle for peace
April 7, 2014Peace negotiators of FARC, who've been meeting in Cuba with Colombian government representatives, called for investigating origins of conflict in Colombia.
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Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye
April 2, 2014Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.
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