W. T. Whitney Jr.
LATEST ARTICLES BY W. T. Whitney Jr.
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Winds of change blow strong in Cuban colleges
August 20, 2012Many regard Cuba's success in making education accessible and socially useful to have been a prime achievement of the Cuban Revolution.
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Indigenous mobilization challenges Colombian government
August 13, 2012Indigenous resistance in Colombia has become a social movement.
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Cuba’s new, experimental urban cooperatives
August 7, 2012The plan is to develop 222 urban cooperatives throughout the island: food service ventures, agricultural markets, technical and personal services, fisheries, and water management services.
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At Maine-Canada border, anti-Cuba blockade is broken
July 5, 2012The half-century-old U.S. economic blockade against Cuba was broken in one small corner of the United States on June 30.
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Paraguay President Lugo ousted by the rich and powerful
June 28, 2012Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, a former Catholic bishop, advocated for his country's rural poor.
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Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency
June 27, 2012Cuba is restructuring its economy. Agricultural changes are part of the process.
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Red scare front and center in Colombia
June 8, 2012At first glance, chaos and death in Colombia seem random.
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Peru mine conflict pits David against Goliath
June 5, 2012The action, emblematic of conflict throughout Latin America between local people and multi-national mining corporations, resulted in violent confrontation.
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