W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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Colombia: Jorge Gaitan and the struggle for peace
April 7, 2014Peace negotiators of FARC, who've been meeting in Cuba with Colombian government representatives, called for investigating origins of conflict in Colombia.
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Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye
April 2, 2014Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.
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Cuban doctors attend to Brazil’s underserved
March 28, 2014The 400 Cuban doctors are part of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's "More Doctors" program joined, by several hundred physicians from Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, and Portugal and 1096 from Brazil itself.
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Racial discrimination leads to increased deaths of black women from breast cancer
March 27, 2014Although breast cancer survival rates increased overall between 1990 and 2010, white women benefited far more than did black women.
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Congressional backing of Venezuela protests raises tough questions
March 12, 2014With violent anti-government protests continuing since early February, the idea of Venezuelans "protesting peacefully" reflects media bias.
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Big questions emerge over congressional backing for Venezuelan protests
March 10, 2014The idea of Venezuelans "protesting peacefully" reflects media bias. As protests mounted , police didn't intervene until gov. officers were attacked or burned.
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“Giant” Fernando Gonzalez, Cuban Five prisoner, is home
March 3, 2014At the airport, Gonzalez' wife Rosa Aurora, mother Magali Llort, and two sisters were the first to greet him. Cuban Five prisoner Rene Gonzalez, in Cuba since 2013, was also there.
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Powerful interests mobilize to end U.S. anti-Cuban blockade
February 19, 2014The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba, cruel and reviled across the globe, has persisted for as long as the period between the U.S. Civil War and World War I.
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