Word: cuba
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...hours to tell and, dammit, that's the movie he'd show here. So the running time is not the problem of this honorable, doomed effort; it's that so many scenes are repetitions of earlier ones. Che has to instill military discipline in his ragtag rebels in Cuba, then in Bolivia; in both places he has to decide whether to accept underage volunteers; in both, he gives his men a chance to quit before the decisive battles, where they are fired on by unseen regular soldiers and suffer the deaths of friends who've made their big speech...
...heads to Palm Beach and Broward Counties in South Florida, a region whose large Jewish and elderly populations voted heavily for Clinton in January. On Friday he'll lunch in Miami with Cuban-Americans and give what aides call an important foreign policy speech. He'll face the Cuba policy minefield - and will have to follow McCain, who will address Miami's Cuban community on Tuesday. But Obama could actually use the opportunity to enhance his standing with Latino voters. He is the only candidate who has questioned the Bush Administration's tough embargo measures against Cuba. And while that...
...Guantanamo and that the U.S. military is in possession of all his interrogation records, which could be produced as evidence of torture. To avoid that, his lawyers say the U.S. will have to stick with its decision not to charge him at all. Guitierrez, who saw her client in Cuba a little more than a week ago and plans to return next week, suggests that the only solution may be to transfer Qahtani to his native Saudi Arabia, which has accepted the repatriation of other nationals who had been held at Guantanamo. She describes Qahtani today as a "broken...
...Ortega had earlier signed a food-security pact with his fellow travelers in the ALBA alliance, a socialist cooperation agreement between Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. ALBA is blaming the food crisis on the "tyranny of global capitalism," and is using the situation as a teaching moment for its regional propaganda campaign...
...focusing more on north-south rather than east-west” that cause students to explore their own roots; and the rich cultural and intellectual resources of Latin America, including its indigenous societies, economic and social inequalities, literature, and architecture.DRCLAS coordinates Harvard study abroad programs in Chile, Argentina, and Cuba, and assists students in applying for other pre-approved study abroad programs in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. In addition, its summer internship program in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Brazil helps students find internships and coordinates homestays in these countries. “Most students that go on [the summer...