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WT WHITNEY JNR
Haitian revolution
Features / 1 October 2024
1 October 2024
WT WHITNEY JR connects the dots between the 1804 revolution and modern anti-immigrant, pet-eating hysteria, looking at the deep-seated fears of black self-determination that still haunt the modern US psyche
Cuba
Features / 10 January 2024
10 January 2024
The views of Cuban leaders on problems now enveloping the country shed light on the realities of a nation under siege and a revolution in trouble from poor food production, emigration and black-market scalping, writes WT WHITNEY JR
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first progressive leader
Features / 16 October 2023
16 October 2023
The progressive government’s national drug policy aims to end the US-led ‘war on drugs’ by targeting major traffickers, not small farmers or users, writes WT WHITNEY JR
Cuba stock photo
Features / 28 October 2020
28 October 2020
Buffeted for six decades by the US economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions due to Covid- 19, the economy is deteriorating. Government leaders recently outlined remedial steps for the 'new normal' in Cuban socialism, reports W T WHITNEY JNR
Features / 29 September 2019
29 September 2019
The ongoing embargo typifies the US government’s disregard of world opinion, says WT WHITNEY JNR