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...overthrew the government of President General Fulgencio Batista. The United States - which supported Castro by imposing a 1958 arms embargo against Batista's government - immediately recognized the new regime, although it expressed some misgivings over the revolutionaries' execution of over 500 pro-Batista supporters and Castro's increasingly obvious communist tendencies. Castro visited the U.S. just three months after coming to power, touring Washington monuments and meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon, all while wearing his trademark olive green fatigues. It was a rare moment of alliance between the two countries, and one that would not be repeated...
...were often directed to that subject.” Beer described the influence of these travels on his graduate work at Harvard in the Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. “By the time I came to Harvard in the fall of 1938, I was a fierce anti-communist, a fervent New Dealer, a devotee of Emerson, and ready to try to put it all together….[in] a defense of liberalism against the totalitarian threat,” Beer wrote. Many of his former students praised Beer’s engaging personality and dedication to teaching...
Americans long ago came to the rational conclusion that we can trade with communist China and still criticize its rights record. But communist Cuba keeps us in a trance of irrational contradictions. That is, perhaps, until now. As Barack Obama packs for the Summit of the Americas this week in Trinidad, where he hopes to improve Washington's dismal relations south of the border, the U.S. President knows that Cuba policy will be the marquee topic. "Any solution to the U.S.'s problems in Latin America has to go through Havana," says Larry Birns, head of the Council on Hemispheric...
...this strength-from-weakness strategy could hurt Beijing. Time abroad could distract China's leaders from their pressing domestic problems - for all its sophistication, the Chinese Communist Party has failed to develop any effective local troubleshooters other than Wen. For years, moreover, Chinese nationalists have been calling for exactly a tougher line toward the West. Now, Beijing's new aggressiveness overseas could embolden the nationalists - a trend that would alienate China's neighbors...
More than 90 students and activists from Harvard, MIT, and the Greater Boston area hoisted picket signs in Harvard Square on Friday afternoon to protest the incumbent Communist Party’s victory in Moldova’s general parliamentary elections last week. Accusations of electoral fraud sparked peaceful protests throughout the former communist satellite state the day after the election, but the situation quickly escalated to violent riots and retaliations by authorities. By Tuesday, Moldova had reached a state of unrest that remains perilous to citizens and journalists, according to media reports. Friday’s demonstration in Cambridge...