Musings

July 29, 2011

Storming Las Vegas, the book about Jose Vigoa (a larger-than-life Cuban-born commando veteran of the Soviet Army, who staged several high-profile casino and armored car robberies in Las Vegas) will be made into a film. [Deadline]

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July 28, 2011

Privileged lives of the Cuban nomenklatura’s offspring. (via The New York Times)

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July 25, 2011

Federation of American Scientists has posted the U.S. Congressional Research Service’s “Cuba: Issues for the 112th Congress” report, dated July 15, 2011.

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May 8, 2011

The Middle Eastern-Latin American Terrorist Connection. In a global triangulation that would excite any conspiracy buff, the globalization of terrorism now links Colombian FARC with Hezbollah, Iran with Russia, elected governments with violent insurgencies, uranium with AK-103s, and cocaine with oil. At the center of it all, is Latin America—especially the countries under the influence [...]

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May 1, 2011

Foreign Policy magazine’s May/June issue offers a piece by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill political scientist Graeme Robertson on whether dictatorships are on the way out.

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March 20, 2011

Charlie Rose interviewed inventor and futurist author Ray Kurzweil and director Barry Ptolemy about a new documentary chronicling his life.  Kurzweil declares in the interview, communication technology is inherently democratizing.

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