From the monthly archives: January 2012
By Keith Fernandez
“A large number of [‘study-tour’] programs are for a short duration, allow for limited interaction with the Cuban people, and include lengthy unscheduled time periods to permit largely tourist activities to be accomplished. Such travel does not promote a genuinely free exchange of ideas between Cubans and American students.” – Commission for [...]
According to a blog posting at The Nicaraguan Dispatch (no relationship with our DC Dispatches), and similar articles in Spanish from the region, there are a group of fellows that claim to be a modern-day version of the Nicaraguan freedom fighter movement, the Contras. I’ve had folks well connected in the region [...]
When it comes to U.S.-Cuba matters, I’ve seen a lot in this area since I moved here in the 1990s. Some of it serious, others like this latest gem, downright bizarre. These people are either totally ignorant or, more likely, are going out of their way to make a political statement that they do not support U.S. economic sanctions on the [...]
The Washington Time’s Bill Gertz penned a good piece this morning on outer space security: “New space-arms control initiative draws concern.” You can read it here. Over at The Space Review blog, you can read a good background summary of the matter that details the Obama Administration’s apparent back and forth [...]
An indignant sounding Secretary of State Clinton was “dismayed” yesterday at the “deplorable behavior” of U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of dead terrorist Taliban. Defense Secretary Panetta also condemned their “utterly deplorable” actions. On the Republican side of the aisle, the response was mostly muted, however, Senator John McCain also condemned the incident and said it “saddened” [...]
