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...final six-year term ends in 2012, emerged with sufficient palanca, or leverage, to again seek a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be re-elected indefinitely, without risking a dangerous national uproar. Critics see his effort to nix term limits as a veiled bid for a Castro-style dictatorship - and even supporters suggest that with oil prices plummeting, battering an economy already hit hard by inflation, Chávez should set other priorities. What's more, now that the U.S. is about to replace Chávez's archenemy, George W. Bush, with Barack Obama, it will...
...Navy ships, under a lease drawn up in 1903. U.S. possession of Guantánamo was reaffirmed under former Cuban president Batista in 1934 with a provision that the lease could not be terminated without mutual consent - a provision that was challenged to no avail by Fidel Castro following the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The denial of his request to return the land to Cuba by President Eisenhower paved the way for escalated tensions between the two countries; Fidel later called it "a knife stuck in the heart of Cuba's dignity and sovereignty...
...tells the tale of Galicia, a cold, rainy, and stubbornly independent piece of Spain on the Atlantic Ocean. It is "a patchwork of small, low-intensity farms...real working countryside" and home to Don Quixote's Miguel de Cervantes, longtime Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, and the Castro family (of the Havana Castros). Barlow's gastronomic travelogue manages to make the place sound utterly depressing and enchanting at the same time...
...contemporary voter issues. Through reproductions of historical photographs and art by current Harvard students, “Casting the First Ballot” explores what it means to be a voter. “We wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, the student curator of the exhibit. The historical photographs focus on the movement’s most iconic events. In one photograph, women surround a reinforced truck holding a replica of the Liberty Bell. The bell’s clapper has been fixed, a caption...
...photograph that circulated in an e-mail last spring, Fidel Castro holds up a poster emblazoned with President-elect Barack Obama’s face, the words “I love this guy!” superimposed above Castro’s head. Despite the e-mail’s subject line—”Fidel Castro endorses Obama”—the former Cuban president had done no such thing. The image was a doctored advertisement aimed at Cuban-American voters circulated by the Florida Republican Party. In a presentation at the Berkman Center...