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October 6, 2014
Economics
A Runoff for Brazil’s Rousseff and Neves
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff won the first–round of the 2014 presidential election yesterday with almost 42 percent of the vote. The real surprise of the contest, however, came in Brazilian Soc…
November 26, 2016
Cuba
On the Death of Fidel Castro
On the death of Fidel Castro my thoughts today turned immediately to Huber Matos, who sadly did not live to see this day. Matos was a true hero of the Cuban Revolution--and was therefore imprisone…
February 20, 2015
Cuba
The CODELs That Bowed to Castro
Recently I wrote here about how Secretary of State Kerry absorbed the shouting and screaming of the Iranian negotiator in the nuclear talks, apparently without any objection. But it seems Kerry is no…
February 5, 2016
Cuba
Castro Mocks the American Outreach
The efforts of the Obama administration to ’normalize’ relations with Cuba have been mocked this past week. The U.S. Southern Command holds an annual regional security conference. For decades one of…
May 15, 2014
Tourism, the Egyptian Economy--and Augusto Pinochet
Egypt’s next president, sure to be Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, will have a monumental task handling Egypt’s economy. More bad news was reported yesterday regarding the tourism sector. Al Ahram reported th…