Foreign Policy magazine

No lifeline to a dying regime

September 3, 2010

Stephen Johnson of Shadow Government: Notes from the Loyal Opposition (a blog about U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration, hosted by Foreign Policy magazine) proffers not extending a life safer to Cuba’s moribund regime: Now facing a cash crunch on the heels of a disastrous sugar harvest, brother Raúl is consulting Fidel’s old playbook — [...]

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Lifting the communications embargo

July 15, 2010

Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and editor in chief of Americas Quarterly, argues for lifting the communications embargo on Cuba in the July/August 2010 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: This leaves Washington in a quandary. Last week’s release of the 52 prisoners — independent journalists and human [...]

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Raul Castro is one of the world’s worst tyrants

June 21, 2010

Army General and Cuban president Raúl Castro is number 21 of the world’s 23 worst tyrants as ranked in the July/August 2010 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. (Image: George B.N. Ayittey, “The Worst of the Worst,” Foreign Policy, July/August 2010 issue.)

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