W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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Cubans help children in Haiti
February 8, 2010Through play, song and sport, a Cuban medical team is giving child survivors a boost in post-earthquake Haiti.
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World Notes: Haiti, Cuba, Bolivia, China, Nigeria, Turkey
February 8, 2010News clips from Cuba, Haiti, Bolivia, Switzerland, Nigeria, China, Turkey.
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Bolivian president begins second term
February 3, 2010"The colonial state died. The new pluri-national, autonomous, and solidarity-based state is being born," asserted President Evo Morales at his inauguration January 22, after being elected along with Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera to a new...
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World Notes
February 2, 2010In World Notes this week: Canada, South Africa, Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Cuba, Afghanistan.
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Debt conflict riles Argentina
January 28, 2010Argentina's massive default on international debt repayments in 2002 has cut off foreign loan possibilities. The Fernandez government seeks once more to be able to borrow in order to fund social programs.
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World Notes
January 25, 2010Iraq, Cuba, Honduras, South Korea, Nigeria, Belgium
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Racism and counter-revolution: Cuba and Haiti
January 21, 2010U.S. media reports have cast Haitian earthquake survivors as potentially violent. Like Afro-Cuban rebels before them, they were scorned.
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World Notes
January 18, 2010United Nations, Britain, Mongolia, Argentina, Iraq, Cuba
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