Showing posts with label castro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label castro. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Why have issues with English language coverage of LatAm?

Borev explains:

"To recap: Newsweek published a story about Venezuela attempting to overthrow a foreign government, and the author now admits he never had any evidence of such a plot, but that he came up with the story after analyzing a comment that Castro made about a baseball tournament. This is all fair journalism though because it is entertaining.

"Naturally, Foreign Policy (who praised the story) is not only owned by Newsweek, it's run by the former Venezuelan government official generally held responsible for the country's worst human rights disaster in modern history."

Full story right here.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

In one simple phrase...

The face of agendas past or future? YOU BE THE JUDGE!

.....Peter Hakim, economist* and president of Washington's Inter-American Dialogue explains to the world exactly why the Bush regime was so hated by Latin America. The subject is next month's Summit of the Americas (you'll be hearing a lot about this little gathering for sure, and the word association with Cuba will become intensely boring). Hakim dixit:

"He (Obama) shouldn't simply say what the United States is going to do, he should say what he expects Latin America to do."

No further comment necessary.

*aka dumbass in a suit