This past February marked the 50th anniversary of Washington’s embargo against Cuba. The birthday, which went uncelebrated here and in the Caribbean, was a grim reminder of the persistence of one of Washington’s most egregious foreign policy blunders. Enacted less than a year after President Kennedy’s ill-fated attempt to unseat Fidel Castro’s fledgling communist government at [...]
“This is a very dangerous attitude to think that any politician is too high up to be involved in the basis of parliamentary democracy. I think we all have to start with at least a sense of humility” – Aung San Suu Kyi in defence of her decision to contest said that it is in [...]
Relations between Moscow and Kyiv have been unexpectedly rocky in recent years. However, as Russia entered its latest election cycle, the Kremlin’s attention drifted away from Ukraine. While there was little doubt that Vladimir Putin would return to power, the president-to-be had to contend with the sudden awakening of parts of the Russian electorate. Now [...]
Two years ago, on February 25, Viktor Yanukovych was inaugurated as the fourth president of Ukraine, as the nation of 46 million was struggling with both authoritarian and, many believe, colonial legacies. Earlier that month, he had narrowly won the second round of the elections, 49 to 46 percent, against the incumbent prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. In real figures, however, he got almost half a million [...]
When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spent a long absence from his country in Cuba earlier last year, opponents and sympathizers alike wondered about his future as his nation’s undisputed commander in chief. But mounting speculations about the exact nature and implications of his ailment proliferated. Later, it began to circulate that Chávez was suffering from [...]
Economic recovery remains at the top of the agenda of the government of Mariano Rajoy. It has already agreed a set of new austerity measures aimed at reducing the public deficit and wining back the confidence of investors and European partners in the Spanish economy. It also plans to introduce further reforms of the banking sector and labour [...]
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A good six months before the actual presidential election, it was virtually certain that Vladimir Putin would return to the presidency. Such is the strange “democracy” of Russia. The announcement was followed by Putin’s call to create a Eurasian Union. The plan, unveiled in a newspaper article on October 4, is to achieve EU-style economic [...]
