Mexico

Cuban-American among top global thinkers

November 30, 2011

Foreign Policy magazine has selected the top 100 global thinkers in its December 2011 issue. Yoani Sanchez from Cuba ranked 81st among the top 100. However, Cuban-American Carlos Pascual was also ranked 23rd among a group of U.S. diplomats. The Harvard graduate was a controversial ambassador to Mexico, who wrote cables noting the Mexican government’s “inability [...]

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Hezbollah establishes base in Cuba

September 1, 2011

Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily, reports Hezbollah (Lebanon‘s Iran-sponsored Shi‘i Muslim terrorist organization) has established a base of operations in Cuba in an effort to mount terrorist activities aimed at hitting Israeli targets in South America. An attack is being prepared to avenge the death of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah in 2008 when a car [...]

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From the Zetas to the cartel of Havana

June 23, 2011

Joaquín Villalobos, a former Salvadoran guerrilla leader, who is now a security consultant, has penned a piece for the April-June 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs Latinoaméricano entitled “De los Zetas al cártel de la Habana” (From the Zetas to the cartel of Havana). Villalobos traces throughout the article the violence associated with organized crime in Mexico [...]

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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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Article may spark diplomatic feud

August 15, 2010

Fidel Castro’s August 11 article, “The giant with the seven-league boots,” supporting leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the runner-up in Mexico’s 2006 presidential election, threatens to revive diplomatic tensions between Cuba and Mexico, and puts into doubt the legitimacy of Mexican political institutions. (Image: Radio Artemisa Digital)

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Military Rule 2.0

July 12, 2010

A Council on Foreign Relations fellow and researcher on the increasing power of the military in developing nations in today’s Boston Globe: Call it military rule 2.0. And as a result, in many developing countries the military is more powerful than it has been in years. Thailand, where the military once seemed to have retreated [...]

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