Word: cuba
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...from an initial three-year sentence, Biscet continued to advocate for freedom of speech and the extension of human rights to the Cuban people, creating the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights. After organizing a peaceful meeting at a friend’s house to discuss human rights violations in Cuba, the state police barged in, dragged the men onto the street, and beat them while their spouses and children watched. His perseverant focus on human rights landed him a 25 year sentence...
...conceded his first electoral defeat since winning Venezuela's presidency in 1998. After facing an unusually strong protest movement on the streets of Venezuela's major cities - led not by traditional opposition figures but by university students who'd grown fearful that Chavez was moving the country toward a Cuba-style dictatorship - his reforms were narrowly beaten back by a 51% to 49% margin. The result, and Chavez's graceful acceptance of it, may well have set not only Venezuela, a key U.S. oil supplier, but all of Latin America on a far surer path to democracy in the 21st...
...does prevail, pundits then expect to see just what kind of state the former paratroop commander - who controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and 12% of U.S. oil imports - really wants to create. Opponents insist that by nixing term limits he is crossing his own Rubicon into a Cuba-style dictatorship. (Chávez has already been in power since 1999 and his current term ends in 2013.) But considering that developed countries like France still allow unlimited presidential re-election, as the U.S. once did, that's likely an exaggeration. Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S., argues...
...memoir titles encapsulate a life as deftly as civil rights lawyer Victor Rabinowitz's: Unrepentant Leftist. Often with partner Leonard Boudin, he defended such clients as the Black Panthers, blacklisted writer Dashiell Hammett and accused spy Alger Hiss. In 1960 Rabinowitz and Boudin added Cuba to their client roster after a poolside game of chess in Havana with Che Guevara. A few years later, Rabinowitz successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that Cuba was entitled to funds from the sale of products formerly owned by a U.S. citizen. Rabinowitz...
...excitement at hearing the author’s perspective on their shared cultural identity. She summed up her own Juban upbringing: “We danced salsa at my Bat Mitzvah.†After inhaling the flan, the guests moved upstairs for discussion with author Behar, born in Cuba but raised in New York. She began her presentation with old family photographs, which she said “gave me my first glimpse of the Cuba I had been a part of but couldn’t remember.†Her new book, “An Island...