Council on Foreign Relations

Resurgence of the coup d’état

October 13, 2011

Joshua Kurlantzick, a Fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an piece in The National on the rise of the coup d’état: Across the developing world, from Thailand to Pakistan, militaries have become more politically powerful in recent years. Indeed, in many Middle Eastern nations, armies will be determining the future [...]

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Academic with alleged ties to CuIS in Havana

August 31, 2010

Julia Sweig, the Council on Foreign Relations resident Cuba expert, accompanied Fidel Castro yesterday to the National Aquarium along with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic magazine and Adela Dworin, president of the Jewish Community of Cuba. In October 2008, Cuban spy hunter Lt. Col. Chris Simmons of the Cuban Intelligence Research Center appeared on journalist Oscar Haza‘s [...]

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Miscellanea

July 7, 2010

An El Salvadoran national detained in Caracas will be extradited “in the coming hours” to Cuba, where he is wanted for a string of terrorist bombings in the late 1990s. [Wall Street Journal] Some changes are in the works for Radio and TV Martí. [Radio World] Spanish FM: Spain hopes Cuba’s agreement with Roman Catholic [...]

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Castrocare in Crisis

June 24, 2010

Foreign Affairs July/August 2010 issue is now online and one of its articles is on the crisis of Cuba’s health-care industry. The piece is a premium article, however, you can read the first three paragraphs. (Image: National Review)

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