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Andean Group - July 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)
POLITICS: The Cuban role
Uruguay's President José Mujica wasn't kidding when he quipped that
Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro had "kidnapped" his Venezuelan protégé Hugo
Chávez in order to deal with Chávez's cancer diagnosis. Castro's motivation was,
of course, not entirely altruistic. Chávez is Cuba's main benefactor and without
Venezuelan support the Castro regime would likely have to turn to another
distant empire, China, to prop it up. Unfortunately, the PR operation, directed
with typical Cuban hermetism, was a total disaster and even worse for the
country's image, there is a lingering suspicion is that the Cuban medical
treatment was also a bit inadequate.
- Venezuela in crisis
- POLITICS: The Cuban role
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: VENEZUELA
- JUDICIARY: Preparing to revamp the judiciary
- DRUGS: Morales takes a stand on coca
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: BOLIVIA
- ECONOMY: Over-achieving
- SECURITY: Crackdown on police
- ECONOMY: Transcending national barriers
- POLITICS & SECURITY: The ghost of violence past
- DRUGS: Peru's dynamic drug trade
- POLITICS: Riots-a-plenty
- Coca acreage probably stable or falling