Fabiola Santiago: Cuba sets up shop here, and US yawns MiamiHerald.com After too long a time without seeing each other, I recently reunited in Miami with a friend who works in Washington D.C. as a national television correspondent. She pounds the pavement in Congress and the White House with the frequency some of us ... |
The Cuban missile crisis's lessons for Syria, and Obama Washington Post Whether he is aware of the precedent or not, Obama has taken a leaf out of JFK's playbook by postponing immediate military action. In 1962, nearly all of the president's top advisers were calling for airstrikes against Soviet missile sites on Cuba ... Obama's Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis Redux? |
Washington Post | Michelle Obama present, at least in spirit, at Tracy Reese's show Washington Post Michelle Obama didn't attend the African American designer's Cuban-themed Fashion Week extravaganza. But as the ready-to-wear specialist's most important fan, the first lady's spirit was evident, as was a distinct diversity that permeated the designer ... |
New York Times | Latin America Lodging, From Panama to Peru New York Times Grande dame rehabs. Art-focused urban boutiques. Rain-forest hideaways. There's no pattern to be found in the latest hotels in Latin America. But the offerings reveal one trend: the broad appeal of the region. |
DEA Won't Crack Down On Armored Car Companies Working With Pot Shops ... Huffington Post ... answer</a>. Incidentally, a younger Obama <a href="http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/229756/82/We-Need-To-Decriminalize-Our-Marijuana-Laws----Barack-Obama">supported marijuana decriminalization and a rethinking of the drug war</a>. ... Almost 800 ... |
World Policy Institute (blog) | Russians broach Syria over chemical weapons surrender; Syria welcomes idea ... GazetteNET Russians broach Syria over chemical weapons surrender; Syria welcomes idea as Obama presses strikes. In this frame grab from video taken Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, and provided by "CBS This Morning," Syrian ... 2, 2013 file photo provided by the Florida ... Admitting Mistakes, Making the Case, and the Speech Obama Should Give Syria, America and Putin's Bluff Obama Should Confront his Russian Bully |
Low prices take toll on Cuban nickel revenues Reuters China and Europe also purchase Cuban nickel products, the country's most important exports and one of its top foreign exchange earners after technical services and tourism. A joint venture ferronickel plant under construction in Moa with Venezuela was ... |
solarserver.com | SunEdison Obtains Funding for Latin America's Largest Solar Farm Bloomberg SunEdison Inc. (SUNE), the polysilicon supplier formerly known as MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., won $212.5 million in project financing to help build what may be Latin America's biggest solar power plant in Chile. The Overseas Private Investment Corp ... SunEdison secures financing, begins construction on Latin America's largest ... SunEdison, IFC and OPIC Close $212.5M Project Financing arrangement for a ... SunEdison gets finance for 100MW planned PV power plant in Atacama Desert |
Cuba Farmers Can Sell Directly To Hotels And Restaurants Huffington Post HAVANA -- Cuban authorities have authorized independent farmers to sell directly to hotels and tourist-oriented restaurants. Until now, private growers have had to go through a state-run distributor to supply those businesses. State-run agribusinesses ... |
JazzTimes And Insight Cuba Team Up To Legally Bring Americans To Havana ... PR Web (press release) JazzTimes, in partnership with Insight Cuba, the leading provider of U.S. licensed people-to-people travel to Cuba, is offering 11 Jazz in Havana departures from October 2013 through June 2014. The exclusive 5- day/4-night tour provides music fans a ... |
Obama's Cuban Missile Crisis The Jewish Press And his administration did a better job of keeping secrets than the Obama administration does. It was only years later that the public began to realize how big a concession it was to Nikita Khrushchev to resolve the Cuban missile crisis by secretly ... |
Libya Thwarts Arrests in Benghazi Attack New York Times But the fledgling Libyan government, which has little to no control over significant parts of the country, like Benghazi and eastern Libya, has rebuffed the Obama administration's efforts to arrest the suspects. President Obama promised the day after ... |
Bitcoins Catching On in Latin America Inter Press Service MEXICO CITY, Sep 9 2013 (IPS) - The Bitcoin, a virtual currency that circulates outside regular financial systems, is catching on in Latin America. Mexican systems engineer Moisés Briseño is a user and student of this completely digital cash system ... |
Cuba OKs direct private farm sales in tourism Salon State-run agribusinesses and farm co-ops are already allowed to contract directly with hotels and restaurants. It's another step in President Raul Castro's gradual economic and social changes, which began in 2010. Castro has emphasized efficiency ... |
Business in brief Jamaica Gleaner Prime Minister Lamothe signed the air agreement with the Venezuelan oil minister in Port-au-Prince during the 11th meeting of the PetroCaribe Council of Ministers over the weekend that discussed trade, tourism, transport and communications, agriculture ... |
SB Nation | Dodgers close to signing Cuban INF Alexander Guerrero SB Nation Guerrero is coming off a final season in Cuba during which he hit .290/.402/.576 with 21 home runs. The 26-year-old infielder, who profiles best as a second-baseman at the big-league level, according to Baseball America's Ben Badler, who also notes ... |
