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Foreign Direct Investment Wall Street Journal
4,145 wordsCuba: On the Road to Reform by Timothy Ashby Timothy Ashby served as Director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean Basin of the US Department of Commerce. He is now an independent consultant based in Washington. Today Cuba is an anachronism, a small island of socialism in a hemisphere that has largely abandoned state-dominated economics, adopting market-based democracy as its path to prosperity, and is beginning to enjoy the fruits of investment and growth stemming from this transition. Sti...
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Elian Gonzalez Janet Reno
5,512 wordsIt began on Thanksgiving day, in November, 1999, when two fisherman pulled the body of a five year old cuban boy out of the waters off the coast of Florida. The boy was Elian Gonzalez. He was one of three survivors of a group of Cuban refugees seeking political asylum and freedom from communist Cuba under Fidel Castro's rule. Elian's mother, Elisabeth Brotons, along with her common-law husband and nine others, drowned when the boat carrying them to the United States capsized and sank. Elisabeth ...
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3,072 wordsIn 1959, a rebel, Fidel Castro, overthrew the reign of Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of government in the world since then. Few if any have had the effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one. In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful bloodless coup in Cuba. Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely garnered much support. His reign was marked by continual dissension. After w...
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3,683 wordsIntroduction High in the Peruvian Andes are ancient ruins located near the headwaters of the Amazon River. In recent years, these ruins have seen an increase in tourist visitations. So what has caused the increase of people to a remote area in the eastern Andes above the Rio Urubamba? It is Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu the city built by the Inca during the 1400? s, was brought to the world? s attention by Hiram Bingham. This site contains numerous interesting objects the skillful Inca constructed ...
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