International Community
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
We are absolutely puzzled and dismayed by this week's frenzied push by many Latin American countries to readmit Cuba to the Organization of American States
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
The U.S. delegation, headed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, had pressed hard for language that would delay the island's full membership until it agreed to honor democratic principles enshrined in OAS documents
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 00:00
The Castro government would have to request reentry, which would come as a result of a 'process of dialogue' in the spirit of OAS 'practices, purposes and principles'
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
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 00:00
The Organization of American States announced Wednesday it has revoked a 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, reversing a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 00:00
La presidenta Cristina Fernandez celebra la resolucion para levantar el veto a Cuba de la Organismo intercontinental; Ahora la Isla debe tomar la decision de adherirse o no
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 00:00
Foreign ministers of the Organization of American States have voted to lift Cuba's suspension, apparently paving the way for it to rejoin the group