Early estimates place the death toll around 50,000 in Haiti, and another 3 million Haitians are feared to be injured or homeless. No one really knows, and casualties could rise if aid efforts are inefficacious. Several impediments are complicating aid delivery. Aid started arriving hours after the quake, but has just started to trickle out. […]
Few people are unaware of the earthquake to hit Haiti on Tuesday evening and information about the number of victims and difficulties in getting aid and assistance to Haiti in time in order to free those trapped under rubble, to give food and water and to give medical treatment is coming out by the minute. […]
The White House announced today that Cuba has opened its airspace—an area from which U.S. aircraft are usually restricted—for medical evacuation flights from Haiti. “We have coordinated with the Cuban government for authorization to fly medical evacuation flights from the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Miami, Fla., through Cuban airspace,” a spokesman said. This […]
David Sussman of FPA’s Venezuela blog reports on Cuban (and other) doctors fleeing Venezuela over the past year. Cuban doctors in Venezuela, he says, are overworked and underpaid under the government-established health project Misión Barrio Adentro. Recently, seven such doctors paid bribes to Venezuelan and Cuban officials in order to secure a safe departure from […]
Yesterday evening, as Haiti was rocked by a devastating 7.0 earthquake and a number of further damaging aftershocks, a tsunami warning was issued to Jamaica and Cuba. Cuban authorities evacuated some residents as a precaution. In the end, no tsunami resulted and these islands remain safe, but the destruction and loss of life in Haiti […]
Martin Redrado was always an economist of great interest. In his first weeks in office I was lucky enough to see Mr. Redrado give a talk at the LSE on the many economic struggles faced by Argentina and Argentina’s central bank since 2001. A few key points were made at the beginning of his term […]
Santeria, a syncretic religion mixing Catholic and West African religious elements, is common in Cuba. Some sources estimate that nearly 80% of the population consults with practitioners of religions with West African roots, including Santeria. As is customary, a panel of Afro-Cuban Santeria priests convened on New Year’s Eve and the first day of 2010 […]
Journalists and analysts covering U.S.-Cuba developments are finding reason over the past few weeks to turn to the catchphrase, “The honeymoon is over.” AFP, CNN and Trinidad and Tobago Express (to name a few) have all published these words since January 6. Below, CNN analyzes the shift over the last year in Fidel and Raul’s […]
Every so often a story of a unique nature, crossing many different previously unrelated countries and debates arises when studying Latin America and globalisation. Colombia has now become one of the destinations for migrants who wish to go to the US, but originally coming from Africa, as opposed to from the rest of Latin America. […]
It’s hard to resist presidential decree. Yesterday, after calling for his resignation, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner issued a decree to remove the governor of Argentina’s Central Bank, Martín Redrado, from his post. The impasse has been brewing for some time, coming to a head this week. Kirchner wanted Redrado to devote $6.6 billion in […]
Dr. Julia Sweig, the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin American Studies and Director for Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will be at a Foreign Policy Association-sponsored event on January 13, 2010 at Grupo Santander, speaking on her recently published book, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know. We’ve referred […]
Following the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight into Detroit, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced extra screening measures on Sunday. The new security measures call for inspecting baggage and patting down U.S.-bound passengers from four countries that the U.S. government considers state sponsors of terrorism, and 10 other “countries of interest.” […]
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