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...Institute of Politics yesterday afternoon. “This is the strangest election that I’ve ever seen,” Castellanos said, citing the unprecedented media scrutiny and sharp turns that have marked both the primary and general elections. Castellanos, an émigré from Cuba and an IOP Fellow this semester, praised the bottom-up organization of the Obama campaign and its effectiveness in mobilizing support. He dubbed Obama’s grassroots call for change a “secular religion.” But the greatest factor in Obama’s favor...
...officials for poor relations between the two countries at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening. “The last fifty years have been [one of] the greatest social disasters of our time,” Gutierrez said in reference to the tense relations between the United States and Cuba as well as the human rights abuses committed by the Cuban government towards its people. Gutierrez arrived in the United States in the 1960s, when he learned English from a Miami bellhop. Taking a job with Kellogg’s in 1975, he rose to the top of the company...
...Ouch. The question about Zapatero came after a series of questions on how McCain sees relations with Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba. He said he would not speak to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez "without any sort of preconditions, as Senator Obama has said he would," and said Chávez was "depriving his people of their democratic rights." He judged Bolivia's Evo Morales as "very similar" and also condemned Cuba's Raúl Castro. When the questioner said, "Now let's talk of Spain" and asked whether he'd invite Zapatero, McCain responded with a vague statement...
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