Nelson P. Valdes
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Nelson P. Valdes is the creator and director of the first university computerized data base on Latin America (LADB in 1986), University of New Mexico.

He is a Latin Americanist, Sociologist. Emeritus Professor. Specialist on Cuba and the US Southwest.

He has written analytical and opinion pieces for numerous newspapers, magazines and academic journals.

He was born in Cuba.

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Honduras: Term Limits When Governments Benefit People

Posted July 29, 2009 | 17:30:14 (EST)

"Why haven't there been attempted coups in Washington DC? Because there's no
US Embassy there." -- Joke told by Chilean journalist to President Obama during President
Michelle Bachelet's White House visit.

In 1954, conservative Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to overthrow Guatemala's government, modeled on a 1953...

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