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May 17, 2016
Cuba
Cuba: the "Law Enforcement Dialogue" and the Cop Murderer
The United States and Cuba are about to enter a series of "dialogues" including one about law enforcement. Here is what Reuters reported: Cuba and the United States aim to reach new agreement…
November 28, 2007
Politics and Government
Voting in Venezuela
This Sunday Venezuelans will vote on a referendum comprising 69 changes to the existing Constitution. Many of these push the country further toward Chavez’s 21st Century Socialism, expanding pensions…
October 16, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Learning More About the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to nuclear war than any other event during the Cold War. President John F. Kennedy put the odds of war at “somewhere bet…
October 22, 2012
Political History and Theory
Lessons From the Cuban Missile Crisis
The myth about how the United States won the Cuban missile crisis made it more difficult for presidents to do what common sense dictated, says CFR president emeritus Les Gelb.
January 6, 2012
Iran
The Pariah Tour
Iranian President Ahmadinejad leaves Sunday on a tour of Latin America “in an apparent effort to show he is not a universal pariah despite increasing tension between Tehran and the West.” But the tou…