The recent New York Times article about Henry Kissinger’s plans to launch air strikes against Cuba as reported in William LeoGrande’s recent book ‘Back Channel to Cuba’
Reading details of the Secret Service’s failure to protect the president, I was jolted by a sudden premonition.
Though he was a dictator, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is remembered best for rarely being in control.
“I think we should—we should advocate for the end of the embargo” on Cuba, Hillary Clinton said in an interview this summer at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who inherited Haiti’s presidency from his father in 1971 at age 19 and relinquished it amid protests at age 34, died Saturday in Port-au-Prince.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilians could make history this month by electing Marina Silva, the daughter of impoverished rubber tappers from the Amazon, as their first black president.
A record number of African-American candidates are running for congressional seats in 2014.
CAP-HAÏTIEN, Haiti — History arrived at 11:42 a.m. — one hour and 44 minutes after takeoff from Miami International Airport and 62 years after the first stone was laid for Haiti’s second international airport.
Global income inequality has returned to levels recorded in the 1820s—when the Industrial Revolution produced sizable wealth gaps between the rich and poor
President Barack Obama listens while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a statement to the press after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House Sept. 30, 2014.
From a new Brookings Institute analysis by fellow Jonathan Rothwell released yesterday.
Above: Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street after a demonstration in Ferguson on August 17.