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Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
The poll was conducted by FIU shortly after the U.S. presidential election and marks the first, since it began surveying attitudes toward Cuba in 1991, in which a majority of Cuban-Americans opposed the trade ban
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
Latin America must matter, much more so than it did for the Bush administration
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
In a landmark shift of opinion, a majority of Cuban-Americans now favor ending the 46-year-old economic embargo and restoring diplomatic relations
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
Top figures in the incoming administration also have favored more open relations
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
Gov. Bill Richardson, nominee for U.S. Commerce secretary, pledged in Spanish to bolster U.S. relations with Latin American and Caribbean countries
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
The Venezuelan and Russian navies have concluded joint exercises in the Caribbean Sea after just one day.
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A Russian warship will sail through the Panama Canal this week for the first time since World War II
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The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
Dozens of Latin American drug barons have left their homelands and relocated to new havens in West Africa, where a string of countries along the Atlantic coast have become hubs for trafficking cocaine to Europe
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Spanish companies may have invested too heavily and quickly in Latin American economies, underestimating the muscular nationalism in the region