W. T. Whitney, Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney, Jr.
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World
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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World
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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World
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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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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