Word: cuba
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...only money, but values—look to the countries where the U.S. has enforced embargoes and those with which we have traded freely. It is hard not to think that trade must have something to do with why, for example, we have better relations with China than Cuba. Furthermore, raising these incomes tends to strengthen governments, who can then make the transition to paying their civil servants well and establishing better institutions. With greater decentralization of production and more and more personalization of products, it is also harder for one nation to dominate an industry wholesale. Indeed, trade often...
Exporting products is also a way of exporting ideas; as such we should only go to war when trade has failed. Iraq has been expensive and bloody and is something that we can hardly afford to replicate in Iran, Myanmar or Cuba. Would it be too much to ask to open up to these countries and then see what this country...
Since then, the center’s space has been used by activists and hosted foreign dignitaries, including an ambassador from Haiti and representatives from Cuba. Dodderman says Harvard faculty members and students have taken part in the lecture series and study groups over the years. “We got a really good deal on the rent,” Dodderman says of the space. “We’ve grown up around...
...same rules don’t seem to apply today. A recently leaked report by the International Committee of the Red Cross describing systematic prisoner abuses “tantamount to torture” at the United States’ main prisoner holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has shattered the notion, advanced by the Bush Administration, that instances of U.S.-condoned torture are scarce to nonexistent. Instead, the report details the well-entrenched methods interrogators use to extract information from prisoners. Female interrogators bare their breasts and use sexual innuendo to shame their charges. Prisoners are subjected to loud...
...vacate Afghanistan. "If money and support were to stop from the Pakistani side, the Taliban would be finished," says Mullah "Rocketi," a former Taliban commander who earned his nickname for his accuracy in shooting Soviet tanks and who spent time at the U.S. prison in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba...