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...first sign of trouble last week at the U.S. Navy's detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, came when guards found a prisoner unconscious in his cell. Then a second prisoner was discovered frothing at the mouth. Both had swallowed large amounts of an antianxiety drug. Not long after, 10 guards were lured into a medium-security bunkhouse where a detainee was apparently getting ready to hang himself with a bedsheet. In the ensuing melee, prisoners wielded broken fan blades, light fixtures and pieces of metal against riot police, who fired pepper spray and rubber pellets, leaving several lightly...
...government degree next month. MIT student Delbert A. Green II, who raised $50,000 while in high school to study kidney stones, spoke about his childhood in a dangerous section of Opelousas, La. Miles A. Johnson ’08, a social studies concentrator, spoke of going to Cuba on a high school academic program—an experience that transformed his views on race relations. In Cuba, he said, “there’s no sharp division” between blacks and whites. The students also signed books for the intimate crowd after their speeches...
...visit was just one stop on the group's $1,300 two-week "reality tour" of Chavez's Venezuela, organized by the San Francisco-based NGO Global Exchange. It was a clear sign that Venezuela, much like Cuba in the 1960s or Nicaragua in the 1980s, is fast becoming a destination for foreign leftists. As a diplomatic battle between Venezuela and the U.S. intensifies - with Washington banning any arms sales to Chavez and his government in turn threatening to sell fighter jets to Iran - Americans unhappy with the Bush Administration are eager to witness with their own eyes Chavez...
...does not measure political tourism, it says the number of foreign tourists visiting Venezuela grew by 17 percent between 2001 and 2005, despite political strife and national strikes during that period. "There is something happening here," said Renee Kasinsky, 62, a professor of sociology in Boston. "I went to Cuba when it was 1962, two years after the revolution. And it feels like temporarily the clock has turned back...
...have only favored military action when it had a United Nations or NATO imprimatur, as did the first Gulf War, Kosovo and Afghanistan operations. Furthermore, for more than 10 years I've been in favor of diplomatic recognition of so-called rogue states like Iran, North Korea and Cuba. I've visited Iran, have friends there and I understand that a significant portion, perhaps the vast majority, of Iranians admire the United States and hate the current mullah-run Islamic Republic...