Freshly-minted jurors at the Luis Posada Carriles trial in El Paso got a taste yesterday of what they can expect during the next few months as Posada’s immigration fraud proceedings morphed from jury selection to the almost-beginnings of the trial itself. Luis Posada Carriles After lawyers for the two sides agreed on who should serve […]
U.S. prosecutors are calling on federal Judge Kathleen Cardone to reject a defence motion to exclude from Luis Posada Carriles’ upcoming immigration fraud trial any evidence the Americans obtained from the Cuban government. But the prosecutors’ response—filed in El Paso earlier this week (November 25)—also offers an intriguing glimpse into just how much information the […]
Off Puerto Rico. October 27, 1997 Drugs… What else would four middle-aged men with dodgy answers to routine questions be doing floating listlessly in a fancy but battered cabin cruiser off Puerto Rico? Officers aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Baranof had first spotted the tan, 46-foot La Esperanza during a routine patrol 11 miles […]
On October 17, 2010, the Miami Herald published “Mystery Man in Terror Plot Points to Miami Exiles”. Chávez Abarca The story attempted to cast doubts on Cuba’s allegations that Francisco Chávez Abarca—a Salvadoran gangster it recently arrested in connection with the 1997 bombing campaign against Havana hotels—had implicated a number of Miami-based Cuban exiles, including […]
”In a report sent to the US government and released today [October 13, 2010] Amnesty International outlines its concerns about the fairness of the trial of five men convicted in 2001 of acting as intelligence agents for Cuba and related charges… “In a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder on 4 October, enclosing its […]
Erikson The author of the acclaimed book Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States and the Next Revolution is the new Senior Advisor in the U.S. State Department’s Western Hemisphere Affairs office. What—if anything—does Daniel P. Erikson’s appointment last week mean for the future of U.S-Cuban relations—and the fate of the Cuban Five? While the […]
So what was the money for? That is the question for which we still have no conclusive answer, despite countless millions of dollars spent on RCMP investigations, legal proceedings, an out-of-court libel settlement and, most recently, Justice Jeffrey Oliphant’s tightly circumscribed (No Airbus please, we’re Canadian) but nonetheless reputation-damning-to-hell $16-million public inquiry. Thanks to that […]
"Canadians and other foreigners travelling to Cuba now need to hold travel insurance approved by island authorities before they can enjoy their time in the sun. "Those without coverage will have to buy a local policy that can cost up to $3 a day. The new law took effect Saturday (May 1, 2010) and requires […]
On the evening of April 16, 1969, the editorial staff of The People went about the usual business of putting together their still-less-than-year-old Halifax alternative biweekly newspaper. But, just before shipping it off to the printer, Managing Editor Nick Fillmore remembers, “we pulled off The People masthead, dad [Frank Fillmore] wrote an editorial explaining why […]
- 04/23/2010
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Pundits are calling passage of Barack Obama’s health care legislation last weekend historic, and a defining moment for his presidency. The legislation is far from perfect, of course, the not unexpected result of all the far too many messy compromises needed to cajole and barter the 216 votes required to pass it. And the resulting […]
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books
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