Even if the French press did not give it much notice, the visit to Cuba by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius marked a new stage in the relations between the island and the EU.
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The “ideological bias” of International Monetary Fund analysts has never changed, and their recommendations helped prompt the “worst” social and productive crisis in the history of the Republic of Argentina.
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Cuban leader Raúl Castro has decried “subversive” tactics by the US following reports that the latter’s Agency for International Development (USAID) had introduced a mobile phone-based network into Cuba aimed at undermining the communist state.
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Al Jazeera ran “Borderland,” part documentary, part reality show, that examined the plight of migrants trying to enter the United States illegally.
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Mexico not only ranks second on the list of countries whose citizens travel to the U.S., its people are also the fourth biggest spenders when visiting the country.
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President Evo Morales filed suit against Chile in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, and asked the court for justice, and insisted that the country will not be a peace until its demand for sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean is addressed.
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The near-universal hegemony of the Catholic Church in Latin America has waned over the past twenty years.
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Protests in Venezuela have aroused widespread concern in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a recent report.
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The Latin American right faces a critical situation. With just two governments securely in their column, and no real chance of winning a new country for their cause in elections this year, the debate has turned to how to address the new scenario of political and ideological dominance by the left.
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The ongoing political turmoil in Venezuela continued on a low boil, with more efforts to find a working agreement between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the country’s well-heeled protestors. Yet there was still plenty of drama with the kidnapping and subsequent release of an opposition journalist.
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