Two days after the catastrophic earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, Cuba’s former president, Dr Fidel Castro, wrote the following observations on the event that has shaken the world and has fast become a circus of “me first”.

What has the Cuban Revolution achieved for the people of the country, the Caribbean and the wider world after 50 years in power? That was the type of question examined by international academics who met May 7-9, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, but also by the anti-Castro protesters who gathered outside to condemn the [...]

That Jamaica is now all but certain to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for budgetary support is a sign of how things have changed for the lending institution and to a lesser extent, the country.
That is one of the essential points of Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s contribution to the island’s 2009 budget debate.
“We are [...]

The fighter jets rumbling into Barbados to protect US President Barrack Obama who is scheduled to attend the 5th
Summit of the Americas, in Port of Spain, Trinidad reminds us that we do not live in an ideal world. The secretaries general of the host Organization of American States (OAS) and co-host the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) [...]

1. What are the Summits of the Americas?

The Summits of the Americas are periodic meetings that bring together the thirty-four democratically elected Heads of State and Government of the Americas to discuss and make decisions on issues of relevance for the region.
2. How many Summits of the Americas have taken place? When and [...]

There’s no doubt about it. A class war is definitely on. Marx must be spinning in his grave: “See, I told you so! Historical forces are driving workers and capital into confrontation.” It’s like those who declared Marx’s “ism” dead with the collapse of the Soviet Union seeing ghosts back to haunt them.
Actually, we’re not [...]

Time to build and export technology services.
Two recent news items pertaining to the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) group of countries and their trade ties with the European Union (EU) are serving to underscore gaps in perception and reality and the need for the Caribbean countries to take a new tack in a dramatically new [...]

Flames over Mumbai.
If the Nov. 26 attacks in Mumbai were carried out by Islamist militants as it appears, the Indian government will have little choice, politically speaking, but to blame them on Pakistan. That will in turn spark a crisis between the two nuclear rivals that will draw the United States into the [...]

The Obama-Biden economic team at press conference.
Three weeks after the U.S. presidential election, we are getting the first signs of how President-elect Barack Obama will govern. That now goes well beyond the question of what is conventionally considered U.S. foreign policy — and thus beyond Stratfor’s domain. At this moment in history, however, in [...]

The G-20 met last Saturday. Afterward, the group issued a meaningless statement and decided to meet again in March 2009, or perhaps later. Clearly, the urgency of October is gone. First, the perception of imminent collapse is past. Politicians are superb seismographs for detecting impending disaster, and these politicians did not act as if they [...]