W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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Opinion
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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Opinion
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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World
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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World
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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World
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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World
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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World
Cuban doctors attend to Brazil’s underserved
March 28, 2014The 400 Cuban doctors are part of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's "More Doctors" program joined, by several hundred physicians from Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, and Portugal and 1096 from Brazil itself.
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U.S.
Racial discrimination leads to increased deaths of black women from breast cancer
March 27, 2014Although breast cancer survival rates increased overall between 1990 and 2010, white women benefited far more than did black women.
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