Contradicting Colombia?
The Summit of the Americas
In recent months, there has been much talk of the United States’ “strategic pivot” toward East Asia and the Pacific.
2012, by all accounts, will be a year for the history books.
The February 2008 election of Raúl Castro has brought some market-oriented reforms to the country, most notably a new law that will allow Cubans to buy and sell property for the first time since 1959.
“The time is ripe for change in Cuba.” Many have made this claim before, and many have been dead wrong. Indeed, the Cuban Castro regime, having survived to see ten U.S. presidents come and go, outlasted an embargo for over fifty years while maintaining its communist-authoritarian integrity. His rule has inspired, as of late, a spate of rather pessimistic literature. [...]
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