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The firm had just completed a nine-month, $225,000 contract of the same scope of work with the government of Colombia that began in July 2008
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Citing ongoing negotiations, Colombian and American officials won't elaborate on what heightened U.S. military support for the Palanquero air base would actually mean for both countries
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Neither Cuba nor the United States wants to mend their estrangement quickly
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Cuba declared the OAS resolution a 'major victory' while some members of Congress debated cutting off U.S. funding to the organization
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Clinton's otherwise defensible reference to the charter's democratic criteria could appear hypocritical to other OAS members
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A senior Cuban official, Ricardo Alarcon, has welcomed a decision by the Organisation of American States to lift the 1962 ban on Cuban membership
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Cuba faces the return of the frequent power cuts that were common in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union
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Cuba has shown no desire to rejoin. Socialist states like Venezuela and Nicaragua say they want to form an association that excludes the US
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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
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Chavez also raised concerns that Washington continues to hold sway over the OAS and suggested that 'a new organization of Latin American and Caribbean countries must be created'