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Forecast for Latin America: Cold (War) Winds from Russia
Pajamas Media — Putin and Medvedev's renewed meddling in the Americas makes it feel like the 1960s again. [image] Forty-six years ago this week, the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when President John F. Kennedy agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. In his pact with Nikita Khrushchev, Kennedy also agreed that the U.S. would neither invade Cuba nor allow an exile invasion of Cuba, a decision that converted America from Fidel Castro’s enemy to his de facto protector. The Soviets, for their part, agreed to remove the missiles they had snuck into the island nation under Kennedy’s nose. Just a year after the missile crisis Kennedy would be assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist admirer of Fidel ...

Russia’s Influence in Latin America
PoliGazette — As predicted earlier this year here at PoliGazette, Russia is increasingly improving its relationship with Latin American countries, and cooperating with them in a variety of ways. The intentions of Moscow are, of course, to force the United States to focus on its own rather than Russia’s backyard. Henry Gomez summarized Russia’s infiltration of Latin America for Pajamas Media today. ‘On Monday, Reuters reported, “The Russian and Cuban military will exchange experience in organizing tactical air defense and in training officers,”‘ Gomez wrote. ‘In September, two Russian strategic bombers ...