Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder if we can say with confidence that today the North American and Latin American press is not prey to manipulators. Throughout both continents, the charges by Cuba that freedom is threatened by dictators of the right is common fare for readers and watchers of the news, while [Fidel] Castro's prisons are full of poets and political dissidents...
...destruction of port installations at Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua in 1983. Funding for training Argentinian soldiers is included in the current Reagan budget, some economic limitations have been lifted, and the President would clearly like to loosen arms restrictions Argentina, however, has been making friendly overtures to Cuba and has refused to participate in hemispheric naval exercises as a protest against past and present United States support for Great Britain...
...tiny nation along independent lines that often conflicted openly with American policy and interests. He pledged his country to the principles of democratic socialism, established a controversial friendship with Fidel Castro, and raised the taxes on the foreign aluminum companies which had substantial investments in the country. With Cuba enough of a thorn in its side, Washington was wary of tolerating another upstart in the neighborhood, and relations with the former British colony chilled...
Discussion of the book will probably, center on Manley's allegation that the United States conducted a campaign of destabilization against his government, beginning when Manley backed Cuba's involvement in Angola and lasting until his defeat in the 1980 election. All this time, he charges, the American press false reported that Jamaica was in chaos and overplayed its ties with the communist countries. The CIA allegedly played upon the upper classes' fear of ongoing economic reforms and backed the sabotage and violence with which the JLP sought to undermine the Manley administration. The charges are bold, but Manley attaches...
...those pacts governs all types of pollution; the other deals specifically with oil spills. Negotiated under the auspices of the U.N. Environment Program, the treaties are relatively toothless declarations of good intent. But they have one notable aspect: the enthusiastic backing of such foes as the U.S. and Cuba, Honduras and Nicaragua. It is one of the rare times that the Reagan White House and Castro's Cuba have come to terms in an international agreement. Said Mostafa K. Tolba, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program: "I firmly believe that common environmental interests will overcome any political...