Diplomacy

Cuban-American among top global thinkers

November 30, 2011

Foreign Policy magazine has selected the top 100 global thinkers in its December 2011 issue. Yoani Sanchez from Cuba ranked 81st among the top 100. However, Cuban-American Carlos Pascual was also ranked 23rd among a group of U.S. diplomats. The Harvard graduate was a controversial ambassador to Mexico, who wrote cables noting the Mexican government’s “inability [...]

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Father of containment

November 15, 2011

Henry Kissinger reviews noted Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis‘s new book on the father of [Soviet] containment, George F. Kennan: Nonetheless, no other Foreign Service officer ever shaped American foreign policy so decisively or did so much to define the broader public debate over America’s world role. This process began with two documents remembered [...]

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Boosting military ties

August 8, 2011

Cuban Defense Minister, Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro met with his Angolan counterpart Candido Pereira Dos Santos Van Dunem and “signed an accord recognizing the working parameters to strengthen and grow cooperation between the two armies,” reports Cuban state media.

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Qaddafi envoy visits Havana

August 4, 2011

Army General Raúl Castro met with Abdulhafid M. Zlitniel, special envoy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Havana on August 3rd.  Zlitniel brought a message from Qaddafi to Raul Castro, informing him of the Libyan government´s efforts to confront the campaign of international isolation that Western powers are trying to impose. [Granma]

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Ahmadinejad calls for bolstering ties with Cuba

September 22, 2010

The Iranian president made the remarks in a meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez yesterday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s annual session in New York. [PressTV]

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Brazil helps in small business creation

September 19, 2010

Brazil’s foreign minister, Celso Amorim, met yesterday with Cuba’s de facto president Raúl Castro. Castro and Amorim discussed current international and regional issues, and characterized bilateral relations as excellent. Brazil has invested $1B in various projects in Cuba including the reconstruction of the Port of Mariel. And, Brazil has also extended lines of credit to the island as an [...]

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