Chilean President Looks Forward to Scientific Cooperation with Cuba
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet attended the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Cuban authorities to foster biotechnological collaboration between the two countries, during a visit Wednesday to the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center in Havana.
From Davos to Belem: A Tale of Two Spirits
This years' gathering at Davos appears to have been a complete dud. It's hard for one who wasn't there to say how complete but if President Obama is reading the reports from the celebrated Swiss mountaintop he has to be glad he didn't go and that he didn't send a high powered delegation.
US Media Turns Blind Eye to Colombia's Human Rights Violations
Any evenhanded comparison of the Colombian and Venezuelan governments’ human rights records would have to note that, though Venezuela’s record is far from perfect, that country is by every measure a safer place than Colombia to live, vote, organize unions and political groups, speak out against the government or practice journalism.
Time to Set Okinawa Free
It’s way past time for the US to get out of Okinawa – and, for that matter, to take its Tokyo good buddies with it. Before Japanese warlords annexed the Ryuku islands in 1879, Okinawans enjoyed more freedom than they do today.
