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| Massive Pro and Anti Government Demonstrations in Venezuela Massive opposition protests cannot change the fact that the National Electoral Council is under constitutional obligations that will prevent it from moving the recall referendum to this year, says journalist Jeanette Charles September 2, 2016 |
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| FARC Members Ready for Peace, But Tensions Remain While the final peace agreement between the FARC and the Colombian government must be ratified by a national referendum, prospects for ending almost 6 decades of civil war in a country with an extensive history of human rights violations and political crimes. September 1, 2016 |
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| Paramilitaries Pose Threat to FARC-Colombia Peace Deal The peace deal, which now heads to referendum, comes over more than a century of US intervention in the nation starting with breaking off Panama from Colombia, says labor and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik August 26, 2016 |
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| Brazil Moving Towards Right-wing Foreign Policy The right wing interim Government which has no popular mandate is actively considering deeper engagement with the US and EU and breaking ranks with developing countries at the WTO, says economist Adhemar Mineiro - Newsclick and TRNN Joint Production August 24, 2016 |
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| Brazil: A State of Economic and Political Paralysis Under President Michel Temer, Brazil's economic and political paralysis has deepened. With the Dilma Rousseff impeachment vote at the Senate planned for after the 2016 Olympics, the situation is rife with alarming possibilities. - A Joint TRNN and Newsclick Production August 23, 2016 |
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| Afro-Colombians Place Hope in the Peace Process After over 50 years of civil war, the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas are closer than ever to signing a final peace deal which is supported by much of country's black and indigenous populations August 22, 2016 |
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| The Fairytale of Olympic 'Legacies' Jules Boykoff, author of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics, says protest mobilizations have brought attention to the corruption and mis-spending around Rio's 'corporate sport party for the 1 percent' August 14, 2016 |
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| Summer 2016 Olympic Games in Rio Eclipsed By Controversy Dave Zirin, author of Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy, says it's the perfect opportunity for the anti-democratic forces in Brazil to market themselves as if they are the saviors of the country August 2, 2016 |
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| Argentina Represses TeleSUR and other "Undesirable Media" Pedro Brieger, journalist and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, says Argentinians view the government's dissociation from teleSUR as the loss of one of the only alternative voices for news in Latin America April 13, 2016 |
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| Brazil's President Faces Impeachment According to Professor Saad-Filho, President Rousseff is facing a coup in the form of an impeachment process and her chances of surviving it are not good March 27, 2016 |
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| Indigenous Rights Leader Assassinated in Honduras Jesse Freeston, the director of the documentary "Resistencia," tells us how Berta Caceres has become a martyr in the struggle against the Honduran post-coup regime and how the Obama administration bears responsibility for the current situation in Honduras. March 3, 2016 |
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| Is Mexico a Democracy? John Ackerman speaks about political violence, corruption, what has made democracy so dysfunctional, and how the Obama administration's policies towards Mexico are not helping. February 29, 2016 |
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| How the U.S. Fuels the Drug War in Mexico Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace, co-authors of "A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the 'Mexican Drug War,'" trace the history of the war on drugs from prohibition in the early 20th century to the militarization of police forces today January 28, 2016 |
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| Opposition Landslide in Venezuela - Maduro Accepts Results President Maduro accepts results, says counter-revolution has won; Opposition parties might win super-majority in National Assembly that could lead to removal of Maduro - Greg Wilpert and Alejandro Velasco with Paul Jay December 7, 2015 |
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| US Meddling in Venezuela's Elections National Lawyers Guild President Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan discusses the U.S. interests and the rhetoric of Hillary Clinton leading up to Venezuela's parliamentary elections December 5, 2015 |
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| Latin American Leaders Demand UN Reforms Journalist Andrea Ixchiu and Alex Main of the Center for Economic and Policy Research weigh in on the statements of the most outspoken leaders of Latin America and their call on larger nations to pay for the economic and environmental havoc unfolding across the world October 1, 2015 |
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| War Crimes and Land Reform in the Colombian Agreement with FARC Joshua Large, professor of international relations at the Universidad Eafit in Medellin, Colombia, the agreement was made possible because of the increasing weakness of FARC and neo-liberal economic interests of the Colombian government September 25, 2015 |
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| Daughter of The Revolution Carmen Aguirre, the Author of, Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, recalls the CIA lead coup d'etat against President Salvador Allende on 9/11, 1973 September 11, 2015 |
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| Estamos de Vuelta! The Cuban Embassy Reopens Lawrence Wilkerson, retired army colonel and former chief of staff for Colin Powell, discusses what he sees as positives and potential negatives in the new Cuban/North American relations July 21, 2015 |
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| Resistencia: Trailer Feature documentary from former Real News journalist, Jesse Freeston, on the plantation occupation movement that rose up in response to the 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras. June 28, 2015 |
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| How Big Business Fuels Haitian-Dominican Tensions With hundreds of descendants of Haitian migrants facing deportation, Haitian Lawyer Network's President Ezili Danto explains how Haitian and Dominican oligarchs exploit Haitian laborers and fuel xenophobia June 18, 2015 |
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| Cubans Press for Embargo to be Lifted Glen Ford: The Cuban economy can no longer survive without opening to U.S. markets, but Cubans are struggling to find policies that balance socialist ideals with capitalism. May 17, 2015 |
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| Lessons from the Summit of the Americas Mark Weisbrot, co-founder of CEPR, says the U.S. will realize that it won't be able to normalize relations with Cuba without first normalizing relations with the rest of the hemisphere April 14, 2015 |
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| Summit of the Americas: All Eyes on Cuba Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report talks about the implications of having Cuba at the table and the growing calls to lift sanctions on Venezuela April 10, 2015 |
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| What Happened to Haiti's Plan to 'Build Back Better'? Economist James Henry discusses how the Clintons and the international community backed the development of luxury hotels and textile factories in Haiti's capital while paying minimal attention to structural issues like rule of law and tax reform March 23, 2015 |
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| Who's Behind the Restoration of US-Cuba Relations? A Cuban-US caravan of academics, social movements and trade organizations were at the centre of negotiations leading to the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries, says Larry Wilkerson March 11, 2015 |
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| Venezuelan Gov. Releases Audio of Coup Plotters On Thursday, Venezuela officials released recordings of what it said was proof that opposition figures and some military officers were plotting to overthrow the government - Analysis with Miguel Tinker Salas and Paul Jay February 27, 2015 |
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| Bill O'Reilly May Have Covered-Up a Massacre Greg Grandin, columnist for The Nation, reports that Bill O'Reilly may have deliberately ignored the 1982 massacre of hundreds in El Mozote, El Salvador while reporting as a foreign correspondent for CBS Nightly News February 25, 2015 |
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| Cuba has Never Been Culturally Isolated, Just Shielded From the US The rich cultural life of Cuba thriving and democracy will not be exported to Cuba from the US, it is already working in the form of participatory democracy, says James Early of the Smithsonian Institute and Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center at CUNY. December 29, 2014 |
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| The Three Remaining 'Cuban 5' Go Home In a historic move bypassing congress, President Obama restores diplomatic
relations with Cuba, and in a simultaneous telecast President Raul Castro hails
the decision but reminds us that the blockade is still in place, says Michael
Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights December 17, 2014 |
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| A Second Mexican Revolution in the Works (2/2) Climate of impunity persists in Mexico and only 6.8 % of the 33 million crimes
committed in 2013 were ever investigated says John M. Ackerman, Professor
at the National Autonomous University of Mexico December 15, 2014 |
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| A Second Mexican Revolution in the Works The case of the 43 missing students has sparked a second revolution in
Mexico as
the discontent over current socio-economic conditions grows, says John M.
Ackerman, Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico December 2, 2014 |
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| Ecuador to Adopt Digital Currency Economist Bill Black says Ecuador's plan is supposed to provide bank services to rural communities through mobile phones September 5, 2014 |
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| Xavante's Song Hiparidi Top'Tiro Xavante says indigenous peoples of the Amazon are uniting to defend their way of life and protect the biodiversity of the "lungs of the world" August 25, 2014 |
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| The Forces behind Argentina's Default James Henry explains why Argentina has a U.S. court
deciding its financial fate and how this profits vulture capitalists like
Paul Singer July 31, 2014 |
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| Dave Zirin: Abolish FIFA Sports journalist Dave Zirin says bribery and corruption are endemic to
FIFA, and discusses what could take its place in the world of soccer June 17, 2014 |
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| Brazilian Workers Strike and Protest Runup to World Cup Throughout the month of May, Brazilian workers have been staging strikes throughout the country, causing major disruptions daily. In Salvador, a recent public transportation strike brought the city to a grinding halt for two days. On the eve of the World Cup, public outrage towards the government for its mismanaging public funds for the games is intensifying June 3, 2014 |
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| Why is Inflation So High in Venezuela? Gregory Wilpert (2/2): Attempting to build socialism surrounded by a global
capitalist economy and being reliant on oil revenues, Venezuela is
struggling to find a solution to capital flight and exchange rate problems February 23, 2014 |
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| Ecuadorian Tribesmen Killed in Army Raid In Ecuador, social and political conflict continues, amid a governmental and private push to exploit
mining resources, despite resistance from indigenous movements. November 10, 2013 |
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| Ecuador Approves Oil Drilling in Amazon Rain Forest On October 3rd 2013, Ecuador's National Assembly authorized the project to drill for
oil in the Yasuni National forest, which is a biosphere reserve and home of endemic
tribes and unique animal species. October 15, 2013 |
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| Brazil Agrobusiness Lobby Set to Appropriate Native Land and Timber Indigenous organizations protest in Brasilia, against the proposed
Constitutional Reform PEC 215 to put the fate of Amazonian Forests in the
hands of Congress; this motion was promoted by "Bancada Ruralista", the
Agribusiness' lobby many years ago and it is being discussed now. October 13, 2013 |
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| Brazil, Corruption and the Mass Movement As the Supreme Court of Brazil orders a retrial of convicted PT politicians,
Joao Pedro Stedile, Leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement,
says the mass movement must become capable of setting the political
agenda October 3, 2013 |
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| Big Oil Gets Green Light to Explore Ecuadorian Amazon Patrick Bond: Ecuador President Rafael Correa is a petro-Kenysian who failed to sell
Yasuni National Park in carbon markets and to international donors, and now he's
turned a blind eye to what's really needed August 27, 2013 |
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| Pope Seduced Brazil, Echoes the Right Pope Francis impressed Brazilians with his modest lifestyle and sympathy for the
poor, but he did not support the mass struggle for economic justice and instead
echoed the right-wing focus on corruption in government August 5, 2013 |
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| How the Media Got Guatemala's Dos Erres Massacre Wrong Keane Bhatt: NPR received a Peabody award for their piece on the 1982 massacre,
but they omit one important fact; the US directly sponsored the Guatemalan special
forces that brutally killed thousands of civilians August 1, 2013 |
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| Drug War Mexico, NAFTA and Why People Leave Peter Watt (author of Drug War Mexico): US policy and neo-liberal "reforms" helped create conditions for the growth of drug cartels and the impoverishment of millions February 4, 2013 |
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| Cuba Not Isolated in Latin America Alex Main: Cuba becomes president of Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries as even close American allies defy US policy of isolating Cuba February 4, 2013 |
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| Ecuador vs The Bankers President Correa passes legislation that raises taxes on financial sector to finance a "Human Development Bond" January 7, 2013 |
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| The Ecuadorian Mining Dilemma Ecuador needs revenues from mining in Amazon, but it will destroy nature and many indigenous people's way of life November 26, 2012 |
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| Chavez Wins After Massive Voter Turnout A Real News report from Caracas: Venezuelan opposition candidate
accepts election results that hand
Chavez a 10-point victory with more than 54% of the vote October 8, 2012 |
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| Colombian GM Workers on Hunger Strike Until Death Sew Their Mouths
Shut Thirteen auto workers in Bogotá, Colombia are completing their third week
of a hunger strike they say they won’t end until General Motors agrees to
negotiate with their demands.
(On Thursday, August 23 the strikers
announced that GM had agreed to negotiate. This story was produced in the
days prior to this agreement. The full statement from the strikers is included
beneath the video player.) August 22, 2012 |
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| True Cost of Chevron in Ecuador Robinson Yumbo, President of the National Indigenous Federation of the Cofan People on the multi-billion dollar woes of Chevron in Ecuador July 6, 2012 |
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| Mexicanos Piden Justicia Por Estudiantes Normalistas Asesinados Después del asesinato de dos estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Ayotzniapa, por la policia, durante una manifestacion el diciembre 2011 en el estado sureño de Guerrero, estudiantes Mexicanos han movilizado para pedir justicia y seguir exigiendo reformas educativas. February 15, 2012 |
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| Chile Rising Al Jazeera's Fault Lines follows Chile's student protest movement and examines the underlying issues driving the anger January 19, 2012 |
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| The Deadliest Place in the World for a Journalist Mini-documentary on the Honduran journalists that have watched 15 colleagues assassinated in 19 months under the Lobo regime, a government Barack Obama praises for its "strong commitment to democracy" October 8, 2011 |
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| La Policia de Honduras Arasa con un Pueblo Reportaje desde la comunidad campesina de Rigores en el valle Aguán, dondé un desalojo por parte de las autoridades deja a más de cien familias sin hogares July 31, 2011 |
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| Honduran Police Burn Community to the Ground Homes, churches, schools, and crops all destroyed as the post-coup government continues to side with wealthy plantation owners over the country's organized farmers July 31, 2011 |
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| SlutWalk Lands in Tegucigalpa Honduran capital's "Marcha de las Putas" becomes latest site for international movement against blaming victims for sexual violence June 19, 2011 |
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| Mexico's Lost Generation Al Jazeera: In Mexico, 35, 000 children under the age of 18, are estimated to have been recruited to work for drug gangs November 22, 2010 |
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| HAITI: SIX MONTHS ON Al Jazeera: Deep wounds that fracture Haiti are re-emerging, more gaping than even before July 14, 2010 |
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| Why does Cuba fear Miami? Cuba5 Pt2: City where terrorists walk free, the govt. pays journalists, and bad trials are good politics June 15, 2010 |
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| Bolivia's resource dilemma Government struggles with tension between extraction-based economy and global environmental leadership April 25, 2010 |
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| Clinton's Latin American tour Mark Weisbrot: Clinton tries to repair US image while urging recognition of controversial Honduran gov't March 13, 2010 |
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| Haiti and the 'Devil's Curse' Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention January 21, 2010 |
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| Haiti: Guns or food? Presence of US troops provides both hope of relief, and fear of continuing legacy of US domination January 17, 2010 |
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| Honduran Coup's economic basis Many say military coup was backed by the country's economic elite but hope elections improve situation November 30, 2009 |
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| Nothing resolved in Honduras Widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing it November 4, 2009 |
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| Clock ticking in Honduras Giordano: A month before elections, coup regime that once sought to kill time is now running out of it October 29, 2009 |
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| The siege of Tegucigalpa Repression ordered to the neighborhoods of the Honduran capital, forcing the poor to fight or starve September 24, 2009 |
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| Zelaya just one of millions Honduran coup plotters' fear isn't losing power to Zelaya or Chavez, it's losing power to Hondurans July 23, 2009 |
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| The Price of Gold Pt 2 Argentinean community's environmental crusade against Canadian gold mining giant July 25, 2009 |
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| The Price of Gold Pt 1 Argentinean community's environmental crusade against Canadian gold mining giant July 24, 2009 |
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| Honduras under siege Bertha Oliva: Coup leaders reviving despotism of the 80s in bid to crush participatory democracy July 3, 2009 |
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| Military coup in Honduras Tinker-Salas: World leaders unified in calls for return to power of kidnapped president June 28, 2009 |
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| Inside the Peruvian Amazon Ben Powless: President can hunt indigenous leader all he wants, the movement came from below June 12, 2009 |
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| Bolivia expels US ambassador Forrest Hylton: It's unclear how Morales can appease the autonomists without betraying his platform September 13, 2008 |
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| Divided kingdom in Panama Guardian: Naso tribe in Seiyik has split over government plan to build a hydroelectric dam on their land June 19, 2008 |
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| US spy scandal in Bolivia US embassy official in Bolivia recalled to Washington after asking student to spy on foreign nationals February 12, 2008 |
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| On the road in Bolivia From his recent trip, Pepe Escobar on La Paz: Showdown between Morales and the elite state governors February 12, 2008 |
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| Bolivia and democracy Jean Paul Guevara: President Morales attempts a peaceful and democratic change (2 of 5) February 1, 2008 |
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| Wilkerson: Cuba, Be Careful What You Wish For Larry Wilkerson tells Paul Jay that the president's executive order is long overdue and the embargo should be lifted, but Cuba should be wary of an increased U.S. presence -94714 min ago |
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