The Cuban Triangle

Havana-Miami-Washington events and arguments and their impact on Cuba

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

“The State Department tends to be less reasonable than the Pentagon”

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That’s a perceptive Raul Castro, in an October interview he gave to, of all people, Sean Penn, where he spoke more expansively about relati...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Feds charge Felipe Sixto

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The Justice Department has charged ex-White House aide Felipe Sixto with theft of federal funds, according to an “Information” ( document he...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

New GAO report on USAID program

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The Government Accountability Office has issued another report on USAID’s Cuba democracy programs, finding that while financial controls ha...

Brookings report: end travel ban, terrorist designation

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A “Partnership for the Americas Commission” convened by the Brookings Institution has issued a report on U.S. relations with Latin America ...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Condi Rice, off the reservation?

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Castro biographer Georgie Anne Geyer – no fan of Castro, and if you read her column, no fan of Bush either – argues that a “change in Cuban...
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Comments, please

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Juventud Rebelde is gathering material for its 50 th anniversary coverage, and posts a question for readers who are “Cuban and have lived ...

Odds and ends

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Rui Ferreira reports on the efforts of Pedro Roig , President Bush’s Radio/TV Marti director, to find a way to stay in his jo...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

China delivers new aid, credit, debt relief

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It was a “fraternal meeting” between Chinese premier Hu Jintao and Fidel Castro, according to Granma . “Your thoughts and experience wil...
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How to create a black market

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Neither would be flattered to be in each other’s company, but the presidents of Cuba and the United States have something in common: an ab...
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Muralla

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One of the remaining fragments of the colonial-era wall that enclosed the city of Havana; this one is in front of the Museum of the Revoluti...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Fidel on Obama: Let's wait and see

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A cryptic Fidel Castro addressed the Obama election in one of his newspaper commentaries. In the midst of a discussion of the financial cr...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Odds and ends

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Fidel Castro could return to office if he wished, says the Spanish doctor who treated him in 2006. The EFE report doesn’t ...
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Malecon

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More on Cuban Americans and the election

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The Weekly Standard reports on the Republican party’s problem with Latino voters. In Florida , it seems that the GOP advantage among Cuban...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Odds and ends

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The President of Brazil, visiting Rome and meeting the Pope, called again on the United States to end its Cuba emba...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

"A new stage in the ideological combat"

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Cuban official reaction to the American election has been sparse, from what I have seen. Before the election, Fidel Castro wrote one...
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Nuevo Vedado

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Cuban Americans and the election

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The most salient fact about last week’s election and the Cuba issue may be that Senator Obama won Florida without engaging in a bidding wa...
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Odds and ends

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Cuba-Russia relations: in Havana, economic agreements are signed; in Moscow, Foreign Minister Perez Roque is received by Vlad...
Monday, November 10, 2008

After Paloma

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Category 4 Hurricane Paloma hit hard the southern coast of Las Tunas province, but soon fell apart and departed Cuba’s north coast as a t...
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Friday, November 7, 2008

Obama on Cuba

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As everyone wonders what an Obama Administration will do in Cuba policy, I thought it would be useful to assemble some statements that he a...
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Centro Habana

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