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El Comercio names the senior Peruvian politicians involved in big Odebrecht scandal

... snarky move, recently, the incoming right wing regime in Brazil ex-invited Venezuela's current president Maduro from the January 1st innaguration of president-elect Bolsonaro in Brasilia.  Also ex-invited were another member of the Bolivarian Alliance, Cuba. For reasons not made clear the leaders of Bolivia and Nicaragua were not ex-invited. When the news about the "withdrawn" invitations broke, the Bolsonaro team said that Maduro and the ex-invited Bolivarian Alliance nations were never invited ...

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22.11.2017 01:42:24

The Russian Case 50 Years After the Cuban Crisis

... dragged to the verge of disaster, where it remained, precariously-balanced, for thirteen – seemingly never-ending – days. Fast forwarding to half a century later, it is 2015 and it is impossible not to notice how the hard-learned lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis appears to have been forgotten. Although the current “Cold War II” hasn't reached the same dangerous peaks of its former incarnation, I maintain that it shows all the signs of a conflict escalating so rapidly, ...

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01.07.2015 21:05:00

All I want for Christmas is... five answers

... countries agree to raise financing for Adaptation Fund or Green Climate Fund, if there is no chance to bind polluters from developing world to cut their emissions? The logic of relative gains dictates the opposite. 5. And finally: Will the U.S. and Cuba become friends? The recent initiative of President Obama to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba and to open an embassy in Havana after more than a half-century of embargo was big news, even if the Cold War is gone. Obama's Realpolitik ...

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28.12.2014 04:03:00

Can Russia help save Peronist Argentina from itself?

... Cristina Kirchner lived as students. Before it was rebranded by the Kirchners La Campora was known as Tacquara (the spear) and its leaders included Mario Firmenich, who was from a good family and led the large Montonero organization. Firmenich escaped to Cuba during the “Dirty War” and was friendly with Fidel and Raul Castro. He later returned to Argentina as a hero and in 2007, and in an effort to conceal public information about his past, his WikiPedia entry was been removed. Maxi Kirchner ...

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30.06.2014 09:20:00

Banking on Bolshevism. Brazil’s “caviar left” spending billions to revive Cuba’s broken communist economy

Although the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorized writing off 90% of Cuba’s $32 billion debt Kremlin policy toward the Castro regime is characterized by caution. Foreign direct investment by the Russian Federation in Cuba remains insignificant. But Cuba’s economic future is up for grabs and Brazil’s ...

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07.03.2014 20:01:00

From Das Kapital To Human Capital... Cuba's Doctor Diplomacy Pays Big Dividends For Now

... But in November of 1956, Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, the Argentine “Che” Guevara and around 80 others set off from Mexico in the Granma, a boat they bought from a gun runner with funds raised in Florida, USA, to make a revolution in Cuba. It took around two years after Fidel marched triumphantly into Havana for his regime to declare Cuba a socialist nation that sided with Moscow, and only after the Eisenhower administration rejected a meeting with the Cuban leader. As a result of ...

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01.10.2013 03:56:00

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