The U.S. backed them as a counterweight to Fidel Castro who had aligned Cuba with Russia in the Cold War struggle for Latin America and the Caribbean. ... Asserting who’s boss in Latin America . Days after the quake, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation posted an..…

The future of a Latin America country – that attempts to break away from foreign domination following the example of Cuba 60 years ago – is uncertain under real threats of a military invasion. ..…

At the request of Senator Richard Lugar, the most prominent Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Carl Meacham, director of Latin America on the Senator’s political team, met with staff from the State Department, senior foreign diplomats and industry representatives over several months to..…

In its 2009 report on Cuba, Human Rights Watch not only reiterated that approach but went a step further and demanded that “before changing its policy, the US should work to secure commitments from the EU, Canada and Latin American allies that they will join together to pressure Cuba to..…

[through the normalization of relations with Cuba and immigration reform]. ... We have dwelt on Venezuela because it is the country where the change in the direction of the Latin American economy is most dramatically visible, but we should also not lose sight of Cuba. ..…