Cuba After Ochoa (1990, updated 2003) Discusses the death penalty as Cuba applied it in the case of General Arnaldo Ochoa, and updates it following the execution of three armed hijackers by the Cuban government in April 2003.
Turning the tables on Jeb (2003) Florida Governor Jeb Bush writes to Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, who was travelling to Cuba. Bush opposes Ventura's visit to Cuba, and Karen response to Bush on this.
Human Rights As Theater (2003) Analysis of the UN Human Rights Commission and the US campaign to have Cuba condemned before that body. Takes a close look at Armando Valladares, the so-called "wheel-chair" poet and his role in the US campaign.
Human Rights and Power Politics (2001) Looks at the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in 2001 and analyzes what the US had to do in order to obtain a vote against Cuba in that body.
US-Cuba Relations Shoot-Down (1996) This famous episode, in which Cuban gunners shot down airplanes from the counter-revolutionary exile group "Brothers to the Rescue", who had been flying over Cuban airspace dropping leaflets, became Bill Clinton's excuse for signing the Helms-Burton Law.
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By Karen Wald