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		<title>Cuba&#8217;s Yoani Sánchez: What to Make of the Dissident&#8217;s World Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, the world tour of Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez, which shifts today from the U.S. to Europe, has so far proven a Buena Vista Social Club-caliber success. For those weary of the feckless, half-century-long screaming match between left-wingers and right-wingers over Cuba policy, Sánchez’s spring excursion has brought a welcome breath of reason. She has parried every thrust from the Che Guevara T-shirt crowd who show up to denounce her for daring suggest that her communist island isn’t the people’s paradise. (She acknowledged, for example, that Cubans get free education and health care, but she pointed out that while caged birds get free water, they’re still caged.) Just as impressively, she seems to have charmed the Cuban-American hardliners on Capitol Hill and in Miami, who didn’t have missile crisis-grade meltdowns when she reiterated her opinion that the U.S. should drop its failed 51-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, and let Americans travel there again, so as not to let the Castro regime use such measures as excuses for its political repression and economic ineptitude. This week, an ebullient Sánchez tweeted that the opportunity to finally engage the world face-to-face instead of just in cyberspace was letting her “live the days of my dreams&#8230;Days that change your life!” (MORE: Cuban Dissident Blogger Visits White House) But will these days do anything to change Cuba? Much was made earlier this year of Cuban President Raúl Castro’s decision to drop the regime’s harsh travel restrictions and let even dissidents like Sánchez, 37, internationally famous for her Generación Y blog, go freely abroad—and, just as important, freely come back. Yet like every change made under Castro, 81, and like every change made under his older brother and former President Fidel Castro, 86, the travel reform was as calculated as it was momentous. Some find it remarkable watching Cuba’s leading dissenter criticize the Castro dictatorship from Miami to Madrid, but Havana wouldn’t have given her an exit visa if it didn’t think it might get something out of this too—namely, an argument with which<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79619&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Blanco, Obama&#8217;s Inaugural Poet: Not Your Father&#8217;s Cuban Exile</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/18/richard-blanco-obamas-inaugural-poet-not-your-fathers-cuban-exile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title poem of Richard Blanco’s 2012 book of poetry, Looking for the Gulf Motel, is a poignantly evocative work about the memory of family. But its refrain — &#8220;There should be nothing here I don’t remember&#8221; — suggests more than Blanco probably intended now that he has been invited to read his verse at President Obama’s Inauguration next week. The gay Cuban-American immigrant’s sudden but well-deserved elevation to the national stage is a healthy reminder that demographically, America today is no longer the country we remember. And that’s the very symbolism Obama wants to convey given the 21st-century coalition that re-elected him. But it’s also indicative of how much the Cuban community in the U.S. has changed — and how much more it may change now that the communist government in Cuba, as of this week, is letting Cubans on the island travel abroad freely for the first time in more than half a century. Both Blanco’s ascent to Maya Angelou status on this side of the Florida Straits and the Castro regime’s relaxation of its harsh travel restrictions on the opposite side — even, it appears, for dissidents — contradict each side’s image of the other. That might eventually help U.S.-Cuba relations move out of their Cold War mire and closer to the 21st century. It&#8217;s a big might, but consider nonetheless: Blanco, 44, is not your father’s Cuban exile. He was conceived in Cuba, born in Spain after his parents bolted Fidel Castro’s revolution and brought to Miami as an infant. But while his work certainly pays homage to his family’s immigrant trials and triumphs, it views the more conservative, hard-line exile cohort of his parents’ generation — the diehards who brought us the 2000 Elián González fiasco, which caused so much Cuban-American soul-searching — with a skeptical eye. His poem “América,” a reminiscence about the anxieties of a 1970s Cuban-American Thanksgiving (roast pork or turkey?), takes a momentary but sobering detour at “&#8230; Antonio’s Mercado on the corner of 8th street/ where men in guayaberas stood in senate/ blaming<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64110&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50: America and Cuba Still Frozen in 1962</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to attribute anything but coincidence to the fact that Cuban President Raúl Castro issued a major immigration reform on Tuesday, Oct. 16, which was the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cold War’s most harrowing moment, the Cuban Missile Crisis. But the two things are nonetheless related. Castro’s reform—eliminating the onerous exit visa requirement for Cubans who want to travel outside the communist island—is a reminder of how the missile crisis prompted both Washington and Havana to shut down movement into and out of Cuba for the past half century. And it’s one more sign among many that each side needs to put that cold-war past behind it. Eight months before Oct. 16, 1962—the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was informed of the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from Florida—the U.S. had already imposed a unilateral trade embargo on the regime of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. That’s largely because Fidel, who ruled Cuba from 1959 until handing the presidency to his younger brother Raúl in 2006, had aligned his Caribbean nation with the Soviet Union. Now, by letting the Soviets use bases in Cuba to position ballistic missiles that could strike deep into the U.S.—Fidel was convinced that the Bay of Pigs invasion a year earlier was just a prelude to a larger U.S. attack on Cuba—he had further stoked Washington&#8217;s wrath. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, in fact, would later recount that Fidel urged him to fire those missiles at America when Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of the island during the 13-day U.S.-Soviet standoff. (PHOTOS: Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 Years from the Brink of Armageddon) The crisis ended peacefully when the Soviets removed the missiles in exchange for a pledge to eventually remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. But a few months later, on top of the trade embargo, Kennedy ordered a ban on all U.S. travel to Cuba. Meanwhile, Fidel tightened restrictions on Cubans’ ability to leave the island. The embargo and the U.S. travel ban, incredibly, are still<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=50264&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cocaine Godmothers and Colombian Guerrillas: Why the Peace Talks in Cuba Matter</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/07/cocaine-godmothers-and-colombian-guerrillas-why-the-peace-talks-in-cuba-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was more celebration than sorrow this week when the infamous “godmother” of Colombian cocaine kingpins, Griselda Blanco, was murdered with two bullets to the head outside – fittingly enough – a butcher shop in Medellín. Blanco, who was 69, had committed or ordered scores of similar hits on rivals, one that even killed a toddler, during a decades-long reign of narco-terror that included Miami’s “cocaine cowboy” violence of the 1970s and 80s. But for all her obvious evil, there’s something else you can’t ignore about Blanco, who was kidnapping people at age 11 and turning tricks at 14. She hailed from the squalid, brutal hillside slums – known as favelas in Brazil, ranchos in Venezuela, comunas in Colombia – that ring every Latin American metropolis and announce the criminal inequality that the region has only recently begun to address. Because security has been in crisis in Latin America for as long as I’ve covered the continent, I’ve done prison interviews with murderous extortionists in Mexico, Mara gangbangers in El Salvador and Maoist rebels in Peru. And almost all of them describe backgrounds similar to Blanco’s. That doesn’t excuse their crimes. But it does make it a more useful coincidence that just a day after Blanco was killed, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist guerrillas known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, announced the start of peace talks next month to end the country’s bloody, 48-year-long conflict. (MORE: Colombia&#8217;s Delicate Talks With the FARC: Will They Work This Time?) The FARC, funded by ransom kidnappings and drug trafficking, is much more a mafia today than an insurgency. In that regard, the guerrillas, who have been knocked on their heels by Colombia’s military in recent years and have seen their numbers drop from almost 20,000 a decade ago to 8,000, need to realize that the world has little more sympathy for them than it had for Blanco. But, like Blanco, the FARC rebellion emerged amid poisonous conditions that can’t be dismissed – like Colombia’s crushing poverty and the inexcusable<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=43699&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for a Cuban Dissident: Why Oswaldo Payá Spooked Castro</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/25/requiem-for-a-cuban-dissident-why-oswaldo-paya-spooked-castro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá’s Havana home was as modest as most of the communist island’s houses. But politically it was an oasis, a refuge from the polarized thinking about Cuba that dominates both sides of the Florida Straits. I last visited Payá&#8217;s casa in 2003, shortly after Fidel Castro had thrown 75 of his fellow dissidents behind bars – a crackdown prompted largely by Payá’s successful effort to gather petition signatures for a constitutional referendum on democratic reform. Payá reiterated his opposition to the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba because, he said, it gave Castro a convenient excuse for his economic failures. But he also flashed a wry smile and told me, “I’m all for Americans traveling here, but please don’t think Cuba will be democratized by people coming to dance salsa and smoke cigars.” That preference for common sense over blind ideology – the independent-minded refusal to bow to the bullying of either the Castro dictatorship or the Cuban exile lobby – is what made the 60-year-old Payá arguably Cuba’s most important dissident. It’s also what makes his death in a car crash in eastern Cuba on Sunday, July 22, all the more tragic. Payá, who was laid to rest in Havana yesterday, was a peaceful rebel, and his Gandhi-esque penchant for lawful resistance is precisely what spooked Castro so profoundly. “We’re the first non-violent force for change this island has ever known,” he told me in 2003 when so many of his dissident colleagues were imprisoned – though Castro didn’t jail Payá because he presumably feared the global outcry. “Castro can’t crush that, no matter how hard he tries.” Payá as a result would have been a particularly important figure to have around when Castro, 85, and his younger brother Raúl, 81, who took over as Cuban President after Fidel fell ill in 2006, are gone. Few Cubans could have been more helpful to the inevitable transition to democracy: unlike the communist bureaucrats who are nervously propping up Cuba’s jaded Marxism, or the hardline Cuban exiles who are<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=37173&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Takes Cuba Policy to the Absurd</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/05/04/florida-takes-cuba-policy-to-the-absurd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 10:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cuba has always been a volatile issue in Florida, but what played out in Miami this week bordered on the farcical. The Florida legislature, prodded by the politically potent Cuban exile lobby, recently passed a bill that bars state and local government from hiring foreign firms that do business with Cuba or Syria. (This being Florida, of course, the real target is Cuba.) On Tuesday, May 1, Governor Rick Scott, hoping to curry favor with the exiles, came to Miami and ceremoniously signed the measure. And then, oops, he promptly conceded the law was unenforceable because only the federal government can pass that kind of international commerce legislation. The Miami muddle is yet another embarrassment for Florida government — just about every business group on the peninsula warns that the new law, sure to be challenged in court, will alienate investment in a state with one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates — and especially for the U.S.&#8217;s worn-out, Cold War Cuba policy. Everyone but the most diehard Castro-ites wants to see democracy in Cuba. But the delusional obsession with toppling the Castro regime while Fidel and Raúl are alive compromises the more realistic effort to promote a transition to democracy on the island when the octogenarian brothers are dead. Two other events this past week help drive that point home. The first was a video conference held last weekend between Cuban officials and more than 100 Cuban-Americans. Granted, it was largely a Havana p.r. show. Yet the discussion did focus on Cuba’s recent economic reforms — to save the island’s cash-strapped economy, Raúl Castro is allowing more free enterprise, including private real estate sales — and how the Cuban diaspora can take part in them. Cuba&#8217;s human-rights record is still dismal, and anti-Castro hardliners insist that engagement like the video conference merely aids a dictatorship that represses democratic freedoms and tosses dissidents behind bars. But in the long run, this sort of economic engagement actually undermines the regime. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s also about aiding Cubans — helping them develop private<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=25573&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pope and Fidel: A Meeting of Two Old Dogmatics</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/03/28/the-pope-and-fidel-a-meeting-of-two-old-dogmatics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, Fidel Castro kept the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba buried under his cigar ash for decades, shutting down its schools, exiling priests and declaring the Communist island an atheist state until the 1990s. But it’s likely Castro also admires the Vatican in a sad way: like him, the Pope is an autocrat who doesn’t tolerate dissent, although the papacy a long time ago quit throwing dissidents behind bars — a habit Havana still can’t shake. So it’s not so surprising that the ailing, 85-year-old Fidel, who handed Cuba’s presidency to his younger brother Raúl six years ago, asked the 84-year-old Pope Benedict XVI for a private audience as the last order of business on His Holiness’ three-day visit to Cuba, which ended March 28. Castro foes hope a revived Cuban church – which under the more reform-minded Raúl has become an important institutional player, as I write in TIME Magazine this week – will help hasten democratization. It could, although that&#8217;s more likely after the Castros die – and by not meeting with even Catholic dissidents during his Cuba visit, Benedict signaled that the church isn&#8217;t going to topple the tropical Berlin Wall any time soon. But another big question is whether the church and its rigid doctrine can be sufficiently relevant to Cuba’s 11 million people to be that sort of change engine. Before arriving in Cuba, Benedict took a justified shot at the stark political and economic failings of Cuban communism: “Marxism,” he said, “no longer corresponds to reality.” To which one can imagine Fidel replying in his private meeting with the Pope this afternoon: “Who are you to carp about outdated dogma?” (PHOTOS: Church and state in Cuba.) Right now, the Cuban church that Benedict came to rally is enjoying a status it hasn’t experienced since the Cuban revolution began in 1959. As Raúl tries to save Cuba&#8217;s economy by encouraging the island’s negligible private sector, he’s relying on the church to help train entrepreneurs and mediate issues like political prisoner releases. Still, even before the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=22664&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: March 27, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life After Chávez &#8211; The Economist examines splits emerging in Venezuela&#8217;s ruling United Socialist Party as the president undergoes more cancer treatment. &#8220;The fissures in the ruling party show only too clearly what is likely to happen once the president is no longer around—or fit enough to bang his underlings’ heads together. Most observers agree there can be no chavismo without Mr Chávez,&#8221; it notes. Brewing Storm &#8211; The Hindu reports on the growing fallout from revelations Monday by India&#8217;s Chief of the Army Staff, General V.K. Singh, that he was offered a bribe to clear the purchase of a batch of defective vehicles, which has &#8220;sparked a crisis that threatens to escalate into a frontal confrontation between the military brass, the Ministry of Defense&#8217;s civilian bureaucrats and the political leadership.&#8221; African Governance &#8211; The New York Times evaluates the contrasting democratic pictures provided by recent events in Senegal and Mali. &#8220;After 50 years of independence, the path to democracy does not follow an obvious, straight line in this region, just as it did not in the West — the model for most citizens here — where it was centuries in the making,&#8221; writes Adam Nossiter from Dakar. Nuclear Talks - North Korea and Iran are not officially on the agenda of the Global Nuclear Summit (the goal is to reduce nuclear materials), but both countries are areas of heavy conversation.  The Atlantic assesses what the summit means after speeches are given and memos sent. The author concludes real success will come in &#8220;the signals from Russia and China,&#8221; once the summit is over. Caught on Film &#8211;  The Washington Post reports Al-Jazeera received video footage that appears to show the shootings in Toulouse, France. The station&#8217;s Paris bureau chief told a French television program Tuesday a letter claiming the killings were committed in the name of al-Qaeda and a USB drive containing the video were dropped off anonymously. President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for the station not to broadcast the video out of &#8220;respect for the Republic.&#8221; Al-Jazeera has not made<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=22431&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crowds Greet Pope Benedict XVI in Cuba After Mexico Stop</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/03/23/pope-benedict-xvi-arrives-in-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<title>The State Visit That Isn&#8217;t: Is the U.S. Dissing Brazil&#8217;s Dilma On the Eve of Her Trip?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the often Sisyphean exercise known as U.S.-Latin American relations, old habits die hard on both sides. Even the Obama Administration, which came to power pledging a less high-handed hemispheric policy, snubbed Brazil this week by not designating President Dilma Rousseff’s trip to the U.S. next month as a high-level “state visit.” That&#8217;s largely because the White House is still mad at her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for independently brokering a deal two years ago to let Iran pursue nuclear energy. On the one hand, punishing Rousseff for the foreign policy naivete of her old boss – the U.S. and much of the international community are convinced that Iran is developing not just nuclear energy but nuclear weapons –  feels like outmoded yanqui arrogance, especially when Rousseff has distanced Brazil from Iran since taking office last year. On the other hand, Rousseff and her Workers Party represent the Latin American left, a cohort that still tends to give communist Cuba a free pass on human rights – as Rousseff’s critics noted earlier this year when, on a visit to Havana, she did not publicly comment on the Cuban government’s repression of democracy and free speech but publicly blasted the U.S. for holding terrorist suspects in spartan conditions at Guantánamo Bay. If the U.S. wants better relations with what is now the world’s sixth-largest economy – meaning a partnership that’s more in synch on issues like Iran – petty slights like the state-visit refusal don’t exactly help. And if Brazil wants state-visit  standing – to be taken more seriously as the emerging power it is today, America’s first real counterweight in the Americas – coddling Cuba while dissing the U.S. isn’t exactly the way to go, either. As Peter Hakim, emeritus president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C., put it to me this week, “Few countries talk more about the need for a more strategic relationship between them than the U.S. and Brazil do, yet few do so little to bring it about.” See &#8220;Obama Goes to Rio:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=21657&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Colombia&#8217;s Santos Solve the Cuba Conundrum?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/03/09/colombias-santos-plays-regional-statesman-can-he-solve-the-cuba-conundrum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It isn’t easy playing mediator in the chest-thumping, Cold War time warp of U.S.-Cuba relations. It’s even harder to resolve Washington-Havana disputes in a way that pleases both sides. But Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may well have performed that diplomatic feat this week when he defused a potential crisis at next month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena. Santos got Cuba to drop its request for an invitation to the gathering, thus assuring U.S. President Barack Obama will attend; but Santos, during a personal visit to Cuban President Raúl Castro on Wednesday, also promised to make Cuba&#8217;s exclusion a “high-level” summit topic, thus averting a possible summit boycott by leftist Latin American presidents. The outcome further burnishes Santos’ growing reputation as a hemispheric interlocutor. “He’s definitely showing a certain capacity for regional leadership,” say Peter Hakim, emeritus president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. “He’s set a good foundation for dealing with this issue.” Santos told Castro that as the Apr. 14-15 summit’s host, he can’t invite Cuba because “there isn’t [hemispheric] consensus” on letting the communist island take part in a gathering that, since its inception in 1994 (this is the sixth), is open only to democratically elected governments. That was a firm nod to the U.S., which considers Colombia its strongest ally in South America, if not all Latin America. But before leaving Havana Wednesday night, Santos stressed that “Colombia wants the Cuban situation discussed in a constructive and high-level manner” at Cartagena, with an eye toward including Cuba in the next summit. (VIDEO: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Talks with TIME) Still, while both Washington and Havana could claim satisfaction, Santos may also have made this summit a more uncomfortable event for the two foes – and that’s a good thing, too. Hakim points out that because of Santos’ promise to put Cuba on the summit agenda – as well his recent calls to discuss drug legalization as a way of weakening narco-cartels, an idea the U.S. strongly opposes but which a growing number of Latin<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=20790&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nuke Report Unlikely to Break the Stalemate, Could Iran Be the New Cuba?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Game changer? Hardly. As the dust settles on this week&#8217;s release of the International Atomic Energy Agency&#8217;s latest report on Iran, it&#8217;s become clear that pre-release hype from Western officials that it would produce a dramatic shift in the international standoff over that country&#8217;s nuclear program appears to be wishful thinking. There&#8217;s nothing about the report&#8217;s contents &#8212; all of which had been known to the key players for the past five years &#8211; or the fact of its publication that appears likely to shift any of their positions. Instead, it appears to be triggering another round of business as usual: The U.S. and its key Western allies are pressing for new sanctions, unilateral and via the U.N.; Israel is rattling its saber; Russia and China are telling everyone to calm down and resisting any new sanctions; and Iran is keeping its uranium enrichment centrifuges spinning. Experts parsing with the material say the IAEA&#8217;s finding don&#8217;t differ substantially with those of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate which concluded, to the chagrin of the Israelis and other Iran hawks, that Tehran had halted most of its research into weaponization of nuclear material in 2003. The new report does assert &#8212; on the basis of a narrower set of sources &#8212; that some lower-level apparent weapons research work did, in fact, continue after 2003. But what it calls a &#8220;structured program&#8221; of weapons research appears to have been mostly halted in 2003. Still, there&#8217;s little question that Iran has used its nuclear program to bring the capability to build nuclear weapons within closer reach. The IAEA has now formally rejected  Tehran&#8217;s insistence that all of its nuclear work has been for civilian energy production, and has demanded that it account for research work that appears to have no purpose outside of warhead design. But it has hardly confirmed the notion that  Iran is racing hell for leather to build nuclear weapons.  A senior Administration official conceded Tuesday that &#8220;the IAEA does not assert that Iran has resumed a full-scale nuclear weapons program&#8221;, nor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=12059&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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