Liberal and conservative Americans alike have celebrated Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez. She's become the new "resistance to Cuban communism" heroine, a world-renowned troublemaker inside communist Cuba. Yoani also acquired semi-princess status in western Europe thanks to the wide internet circulation of her weekly Gen Y blog. (Cubans of a certain...
(49) Comments | Posted January 26, 2013 | 8:36 PM
The time has come and almost gone for Washington to repair its broken relations with Cuba. For 53 years the White House has maintained a punishing embargo on trade with Cuba. Its proponents, with the goal of removing Cuba's revolutionary government, still plead: "Give it time."
In 2001 President...
(6) Comments | Posted July 29, 2009 | 4:30 PM
"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...
(2) Comments | Posted March 25, 2013 | 9:04 AM