Cuba

Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security

Non TNI participant(s):

Miguel Altieri

Multimedia

Today, a billion people live in hunger. Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?

unused fields

Director/Producer:

Geoff Arbourne, Melissa Wilson

For a solidarity `Marshall Plan' with the Cuban Revolution!

Creating a special fund of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution would be an act of strict justice.

A Tale Of Two Extraditions

The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the request.

Dissidents or traitors?

When the “free press” condemns the imprisonment of dissidents in Cuba, they fail to mention that similar attempts to overthrow countries with foreign help would also face imprisonment in most countries worldwide.

Reciprocity!

The CIA has backed some 600 documented attempts against Castro, while there have been no Havana-backed plots against U.S. Presidents. Should Cuba put Washington on its terrorist list? Long Live Reciprocity!

The WTO Doha round and EPAs in an era of crisis

Salvation or suicide for ACP countries?

The major causes of the economic and social crises are now being even more blatantly promoted by the EU - both within the multilateral WTO negotiations and bilateral and bi-regional FTA/EPA negotiations - as the fundamental solutions.

The embargo: Nothing succeeds like failure

Will Obama have the courage to break with the incongruous Cuba policy he inherited from previous administrations?

A very retired Fidel has become reflective

A late September morning with Fidel Castro (Part 2)

From guerrilla warrior to statesman -- now comfortably retired

A late September morning with Fidel Castro (Part 1)

Raul reiterates willingness to discuss any theme with U.S.

On September 20, President Raul Castro dropped in unannounced to see a family member who had invited me and other American friends to visit. Dressed in a white guayavera shirt and neatly pressed beige trousers, his black shoes highly polished, Raul kissed and hugged his relatives, bumped fists with a couple of the Americans and then offered observations on U.S.-Cuba policy.