• US diplomat holds high-level secret talks with Cuba A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, State Department officials have revealed, raising the possibility of more rapidly improved...
• Honduras suspends civil liberties amid calls for 'rebellion' Interim leaders empower police to break up 'unauthorised' meetings as ousted president Manuel Zelaya urges supporters to marchHonduras's interim leaders suspended key civil liberties last night in...
• Brazil's President: Without political will, we will see more coups When Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva addressed this morning's UN General Assembly in New York, he said:
"Without political will, we will see more coups such as the one that...
• Zelaya warns of assassination plots (Press TV) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has accused the interim political establishment of plotting to assassinate him while he is in refuge. Speaking via telephone to the Spanish...
• Brazilian president urges Zelaya's return to power (RIA Novosti) - The international community demands that deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is reinstated, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday.
"The international...
• Cuba could become U.S. oil supplier at embargo's end Cuba has launched a bold policy of oil development that could turn the country into an important supplier of fuel in the Caribbean — and the United States, should the embargo be lifted in the...
• Oil reserves may smooth way for improved Cuba-US relations DEEP in the Gulf of Mexico, an end to the 47-year US trade embargo against Cuba may be lying untapped, buried under layers of rock and bitter relations. Oil, up to 20 billion barrels of it, sits off...
• Why Panama tilts right in presidential vote Related: United States invasion of Panama; Why did the USA invade PANAMA in December 1989? Throughout Latin America, citizens have been voting for change, and in many countries change has meant...
• Legal U.S. Arms Exports May Be Source of Narco Syndicates' Rising Firepower More Than $1 billion In Private-Sector Weapons Exports Approved For Mexico Since 2004 Mainstream media and Beltway pundits and politicians in recent months have unleashed a wave of panic in the...
• Canada seeks strategic ties by focusing aid on Americas Canada will shift foreign aid dollars toward the Americas in a move aimed at backing Prime Minister Stephen Harper's desire to be a bigger player in the hemisphere. In a long-delayed announcement...
• US embargo on Cuba "has failed": top Republican senator The US economic embargo on Cuba "has failed," top Republican lawmaker Richard Lugar has said in a report likely to fuel momentum for a shift in US' decades-old policy toward the island. Read more
• NAFTA Renegotiation Must Wait, Obama Says President Obama warned on Thursday against a "strong impulse" toward protectionism while the world suffers a global economic recession and said his election-year promise to renegotiate the North...
• Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico’s “war on drugs” (WSWS) -- The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFC), charged with anticipating global threats to US imperialism, issued a report last November entitled “Joint Operating Environment 2008...
• Loose Ends: Washington Subordinates Mexico Through Security Agreements Mexico's drug war fits into the rubric of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the US security agendaOne. In the days leading up to the arrival of the first package of US armament,...
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