International Community
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 00:00
Clinton's otherwise defensible reference to the charter's democratic criteria could appear hypocritical to other OAS members
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 00:00
A senior Cuban official, Ricardo Alarcon, has welcomed a decision by the Organisation of American States to lift the 1962 ban on Cuban membership
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 00:00
Cuba has shown no desire to rejoin. Socialist states like Venezuela and Nicaragua say they want to form an association that excludes the US
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 00:00
I'm not opposed to lifting Cuba's suspension from the OAS. But that decision should be used by the Obama administration to mount a major diplomatic offensive to put pressure on Cuba's military regime
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
The compromise was a stunning about-face for the 34-nation group, which had been in what appeared to be an intractable stalemate that threatened to polarize the hemisphere
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
The decision could prove to be a trap for Cuba. Fidel Castro, the island's retired dictator, has recently made the OAS a favorite target, blasting it as, among other things, an "unburied cadaver"
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
A decision to retract the Organization of American States' 1962 suspension of Cuba was met with swift calls by some U.S. lawmakers to cut off funding
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
Cuba owes its isolation not to any maneuvering or machiavellian schemes emanating from Washington, but rather its own anti-democratic stance
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
Pan-regional body rebuffed the US and revoked 47-year-old cold war measure
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
The election was made at the OAS's general assembly in Honduran city San Pedro Sula