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The Cuba Embargo Is a Cold War Grudge That Won’t Die
At the United Nations General Assembly on October 30, 187 countries voted for a nonbinding resolution to end “the economic, ...
Trump’s pick of Rubio as America’s top diplomat could reshape US policy in Latin America
Rubio, as the first Latino and Spanish-speaking secretary of state, is expected to devote considerable attention to what has ...
The Baltimore Sun15d
Does anything remain of Reagan’s legacy? | GUEST COMMENTARY
Nicaragua’s dictator Daniel Ortega ... After a brief intermission, the Cold War with Russia turned chillier, most recently over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The fall of the Berlin Wall ...
Foreign Affairs25d
Whose Ronald Reagan?
If only Reagan had listened: the Iran-contra scandal, in which his administration secretly sold weapons to the Iranian government to free American hostages and fund rebels fighting Nicaragua’s ...
CounterPunch22d
US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade
When thinking about labor’s role in the Cold War, it is important to understand ... as well as their projects in Grenada and Nicaragua. This allows him to discuss the emergence and ...
Wilson Center25d
The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History
Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa ...