Caracas

Havana & Caracas: Symbiotic Relationship

September 14, 2011

Via the Financial Times: Carlos Romero, an expert on Cuba-Venezuela relations at the Centraniversity of Venezuela, calculates that accumulated aid from Caracas to Havana between 1999 and 2009 amounts to $19.4bn, about 70 per cent of Venezuela’s total foreign aid during that period. That includes $14.2bn in payment for professional services such as doctors and [...]

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Careful thought about giving into concessions

August 23, 2010

Jerry Brewer of Criminal Justice International Associates pens an op-ed (via Mexidata.info) on whether U.S. concessions are justified in light of the Castro regime’s destabilizing campaign in Latin America and continuous iron grip at home: As Cuba and Latin America’s leftist regimes continue their efforts to prevent the U.S. from assisting its democratic neighbors with drug interdiction, [...]

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Diplomatic corner

June 25, 2010

Leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will visit Havana, Managua and Caracas in July to acknowledge regional support for separatist movements. [EFE] Cuba restates its support of Argentina’s claim over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) before the UN. [Prensa Latina] The Cuban ambassador in the United Kingdom visited Northern Ireland and met with Sinn Fein president [...]

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Ceding too much control

May 13, 2010

Andres Oppenheimer’s piece on Cubans running Venezuela: Cuba is increasingly worried about Chávez’s political future in light of Venezuela’s growing food shortages, electricity blackouts, massive corruption and Latin America’s highest inflation rates. Fearing that it could lose the 100,000 barrels of subsidized oil a day that Venezuela sends to the island, Cuba is on a [...]

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A secret meeting with Israeli foreign minister

July 25, 2009

La Nueva Cuba reports on Army General Raul Castro’s African tour (Algeria, Angola and Namibia), which included thereafter  a July 22 visit to Brazil. His visit to the South American country has sparked interest among political observers/analysts and Western intelligence agencies. Castro visited the Northeastern city of Salvador de Bahía, according to newswires, in a [...]

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I see stars…

September 17, 2008

Cuba cannot meet its foreign debt obligations coupled with hurricane damages reaching $5 billion, there is now talk of a Cuban space center being developed with Russian help, where are the priorities of the Cuban government to its populace? Moscow is ready to help Cuba develop its own space center, Russia’s space agency chief said [...]

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