Caribbean

Cuban drug trafficking organizations

January 23, 2012

The National Drug Intelligence Center of the U.S. Department of Justice released last year its annual report on drug trafficking operations within the continental United States. NDIC assessed the following on Cuban drug trafficking organizations for 2011: U.S.-based Cuban trafficking organizations and criminal groups are expanding their drug trafficking activities, especially in-door marijuana grow operations [...]

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Cuba is the worst financial haven

October 10, 2011

Euromoney magazine’s Country Risk ranks Cuba, followed by Antigua, as the worst financial haven in Caribbean region in its 3Q study. [Royal Gazette]

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Chinese naval expansion in the Americas

September 25, 2011

PLA Daily reported September 16 on the Chinese Navy’s (PLAN) “Peace Ark” hospital ship making its way to the Caribbean—including Cuba: The navy emblem is shining and the navy songs are loud and clear. All people of the “Peace Ark” hospital ship of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) held an oath-taking [...]

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Congressional report omits Cuba in drug trafficking

August 17, 2011

The U.S. Congressional Research Service’s 41-page report, “Latin America and the Caribbean: Illicit Drug Trafficking and U.S. Counterdrug Programs,” was released in mid-May of this year. Glaringly omitted from this report is the Cuban government’s complicity in drug trafficking. Cuban intelligence assists traffickers with drug routes. Per the report: Drug trafficking is viewed as a primary threat [...]

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Chinese blue-water navy development

August 10, 2011

“Cuba is the key to the Gulf of Mexico, and also controls three entrances to the Caribbean-the Yucatan, Windward and Mona passages…between the three possible bases for attempted control of the Caribbean, no doubts can remain that Cuba is the most powerful, Jamaica next, and the Antilles least.” -Alfred Thayer Mahan, “Strategic Features of the Gulf [...]

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Cold War in the Caribbean

July 27, 2011

The Financial Times’ Latin America editor John Paul Rathbone and author of the The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s Last Tycoon critiques British historian Alex von Tunzelmann’s recent book, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean: “More pointedly, does the world really need to be [...]

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