The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay Dr. Michael Straus Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques (Paris) WHEN: Monday, April 26, 2010, 4:00 PM WHERE: The Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207 365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street) This talk will look at the bilateral lease by which the United States controls part of Cuba’s sovereign territory – Guantánamo Bay. [...]

By Jennifer Simon In his proclamation for Women’s History Month on March 2, President Obama said, “Our nation’s commitment to women’s rights must not end at our own borders, and my Administration is making global women’s empowerment a core pillar of our foreign policy.”  At this year’s session of the United Nations Commission on the [...]

by James Rosen. Washington – The looming vote for final passage of the historic health-care bill is the stiffest challenge House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has faced in his three-plus years as the lawmaker responsible for counting heads and ensuring passage of major legislation. The South Carolina Democrat has spent the past week in endless [...]

U.S. Department of State. Office of the Spokesman STATEMENT BY PHILIP J. CROWLEY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS Cuba Migration Talks On Friday, February 19, 2010 the United States and Cuba met in Havana to discuss implementation of the U.S.-Cuba Migration Accords. This was the second such meeting since the decision to renew [...]

 1- “The Rise to Power of Castroism and the Failure of the Internal Resistance” “They were not caused by an International conspiracy of the Communism.” “Cuba entered the 20th century in an indeterminate state. In other words, the self-definition promulgated in the blueprint for independence had not been achieved when the Republic first came into [...]

A group of African American activists are considering forming a permanent watchdog group to monitor racial discrimination in Cuba. The 60 activists published a Statement of Conscience by African Americans denouncing social inequalities, marginalization and the scorn of the Castro government against blacks in the island. We are considering forming a group to follow this [...]

Brief Historical Analysis The Republic of Cuba emerged as a continuance and a development of 19th-century colonial society, and as a republic it had already readjusted during the better part of the 20th century when a great rupture occurred, of which the consequences have perpetuated into the beginning of the 21st century. Although we analyze [...]