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Russia’s destabilizing foreign policy in Latin America

September 20, 2011

Stephen Blank (professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College) in an opinion piece entitled “Russia’s Second Wind in Latin America,” which was published last month, assesses Russia’s foreign policy in Latin America focused on profit, influence, destabilization and anti-Americanism: Russian policy is not driven by Latin America’s views, but by [...]

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Nicaragua Army CINC in Havana

September 10, 2011

Sandinista Army General Julio Cesar Aviles (Commander-in-Chief of the Nicaraguan Army) is in Havana this week. He was welcomed by Army Corps General Joaquín Quinta Solas, Vice-Minister of the FAR. AG Aviles said he came Cuba to strengthen historic ties of friendship and cooperation between respective armed forces.  The Nicaragua Army CINC was a student [...]

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Revolution and Subversion in Latin America

August 4, 2011

The National Intelligence Council released this gem in late 2010: The 23 declassified National Intelligence Estimates and related documents in this volume on Subversion and Revolution in Latin America span the years 1947 to 1987. The documents in this collection of estimative products fall into three groups. The first three, written between April 1947 and December 1952, [...]

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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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Calm before the storm

June 22, 2010

Jorge Castañeda’s (former Mexican foreign minister and NYU professor) piece on geopolitics in Latin America and the two competing regional blocs: “Americas-1″—nations neutral to the conflict between the United States and Venezuela/Cuba or are openly opposed to the “Bolivariano” governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela; and “Americas-2″—radical left nations moderately retreating but able [...]

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Cuban ambassador to Nicaragua ordered back

December 5, 2009

Luis Hernández Ojeda, Cuba’s ambassador to Nicaragua, was ordered back by Havana because of a “serious incident” with Nicaraguan First Lady Rosario Murillo (who is also the official spokesperson for President Daniel Ortega). According to El Nuevo Diario, Murillo mistreated Hernández with disdain, having used off-color language. This is the third incident (the other two [...]

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