by David L. Wilson Manuel "Mel" Zelaya is a rancher and business owner who wears large cowboy hats and, in November 2005, was elected president of Honduras, an impoverished Central American country with a population of 7.5 million. On June 28 of this year the Honduran military, backed by the country's elite, removed Zelaya from power. He instantly became a focus of attention for the U.S....
While recently playing in a tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Cuba's top pitching prospect, Aroldis Chapman defected from the Cuban national team. Apparently, the Yanks are interested. Here's more from SI.com : Aroldis Chapman, whose age was reported to be 21 years old, walked out of his hotel room in Rotterdam and did not return, a spokesman for the Dutch baseball team said Friday. Chapman told...
Diary of a Heartland Radical Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Sunday the Honduran military carried out a coup ousting President Manuel Zelaya from power. Almost immediately leaders of Western Hemisphere nations condemned the actions taken in Tegucigalpa, the capital city. For example, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) clearly pointed out that the days of military coups as a mechanism of the transfer...
Day By Day by Chris Muir Chris, I think Obama’s problems with Britain began when he gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown DVDs of the wrong format and an i-Pod to the queen. However, it DOES seem the President is supporting America’s enemies like Hamas, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while dissing our allies such as [...]
It is with utter disgust that I write this about the newly seated poseur in chief occupying the White House in what I supposed to be the leader of the free worlds seat. Barack Obama has shown his weakness and allegiance to tin horn dictators and oppressive leaders everywhere, even worse that that we saw in the late 1970’s under Jimmy Carter, unarguably the worst president ever in the history...
As readers know, Honduran military forces ousted President Manuel Zelaya last Sunday and exiled him to Costa Rica hours before an illegal constitutional referendum vote that he was pushing to change the constitution to allow him to run for a second term in office was set to begin. President Zelaya pressed ahead with the vote in defiance of Honduras' Supreme Court, which had declared the measure illegal,...
Your daily dose of news and opinion pieces from some of today’s top conservative pundits, as well as writings by some of the best bloggers on the internet. The Pelosi Republicans Supreme Court Overturns Sotomayor Ruling United Nations To Emerge As Global IRS Obama’s Top Advisor Claims Iran Has Nuclear Weapons Fidel Castro And Hillary Clinton Object To Honduran Democracy Cost [...]
I visited Cuba a few years ago and was surprised. Everyone was smart, skilled, and seemed hungry for opportunities to improve their lives because they'd spent decades under Fidel Castro's human-rights-crushing thumb. Now that President Obama is talking about opening up trade, Cuba experts predict that the country could explode with creativity and entrepreneurial innovation.
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NKorea Threatens to Attack US, SKorean Warships. Oil prices were mostly below a barrel in the first quarter of, but have since risen close to a barrel, sparking fears higher crude could derail any economic recovery. Ramzi Bedaoui supports the decision, because the country needs government involvement to protect society from taboos like spreading rumours and pornographic websites. Osman pointed out...
Photo : Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn. From The Wall Street Journal: "Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies," noted the Washington Post of Walter Kendall Myers, the aging New Leftist recently arrested with his wife, Gwendolyn, on charges of spying for Cuba. "But to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C.," the story continued, "it was nothing...
As protracted debacles go, the US-led invasion of Iraq and the SCO Group 's fruitless prosecution of IBM over Linux have a few things in common. They were both ill advised. Both wasted huge amounts of money. And both draw near universal contempt and condemnation. Now they have another connection. MerchantBridge ranks number 44 in a list of 66 UK-based companies Corporate Watch said made money through...
Former students of Centro Israelita de Cuba, a Jewish school in Havana that Fidel Castro shut down around 1961, have enjoyed a blast from the past the last few months with class reunions. The festivities started the weekend of April 24-27 when would be sixth-grade graduates of the schools '61 class reunited for a cruise through the Bahamas and continued on June 6 when its 1959 high school graduation...
Unfortunately, Israel's new/repeat Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has adopted the Left's code words/mantra calling for the impossible. "...I think my vision has the Palestinians and Israelis living side by side as free peoples in amity, not in enmity, and allowing our children to have a real life. And I suggested also a variety of economic and other projects that we could launch together to make...
El Haji Omar Bongo Ondimba, the diminutive President of Gabon, passed on last week at 73. After 42 years of uninterrupted control of Gabon, he became the world's longest serving president by March 2008 (possibly one of the richest), overtaking Cuba's Fidel Castro, who stepped down due to failing health.
For all its drama, Cuban President Fidel Castro 's announcement early Tuesday that his 49-year rule has come to an end is unlikely to bring significant political or economic changes to the Western Hemisphere's only communist nation, nor is it likely to change U.S. policy.
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