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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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Fidel dies of natural causes under questionable circumstances

January 11, 2010

Castro dies of natural causes under questionable circumstances. His brother Raul is still in control of the apparatus. An enormous funeral and wake is observed throughout the nation, but within days after the wake, Cubans begin to demonstrate openly against the post-Castro regime. Raul accelerates liberalizing policies and carefully consolidates preferential property rights for the [...]

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New abassadors to Panama and Jamaica

August 31, 2009

Cuban state media reports the Council of State has appointed Reinaldo Carlos Calviac Laferté as ambassador to Panama and Yuri Gala López will be the ambassador to Jamaica. Calviac Laferté served prior to the appointment as chief of protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Gala López was the sub-director of Socio-Humanitarian Affairs within [...]

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