Posted by
Hoa Quach
· 5:57 am
· Economy & Trade · Gender · Government & Politics · International Relations · Media & Internet · War & Conflict
Less than one year ago, Voices without Votes was created to offer a voice of those who couldn't vote in the U.S. presidential election to those who could. Our exciting journey has reached its final destination with Barack Obama's inauguration today. However, before we say "goodbye," our authors have chosen ...
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Could change really be coming with the Obama administration, especially in terms of U.S. - Cuba relations? Fidel Castro and his hermano, the actual president of Cuba Raul Castro seem to think so.
Obama took alot of heat during his presidential campaign for saying that he would be wiling to sit dow...
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American actor Sean Penn's interview with Raul Castro is being widely commented on by Cuban bloggers:
Child of the Revolution, The Cuban Triangle and Havana Times.
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The cold war has concluded nearly everywhere and is not going to restart. Dmitri Medvedev-Vladimir Putin's Russia is often disgruntled, and seeking to expand its influence, but no longer aggressively ideological; China is likely to continue behaving, as the current financial crisis demonstrates...
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Diaspora bloggers Keltruth Corp. (Barbados) and Babalu (Cuba) discuss Barack Obama's choice of Eric Holder for the post of Attorney General.
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Posted by
Eduardo Avila
· 10:56 pm
· International Relations

The election of Barack Obama won primarily on a platform of change has inspired some Latin American bloggers from Costa Rica, Cuba and Paraguay to reflect on their own countries They wondered about what they might learn from the historic race, what might be possible, and what is in store for their own countries.
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Posted by
Janine Mendes Franco
· 3:10 pm
· Civil Rights & Ethnicity · Diaspora · Economy & Trade · Gender · Globalization · Government & Politics · History · Human Rights · International Relations · LGBT · Media & Internet · Religion
Barack Obama's historic win in the US Presidential election was as much the Caribbean's as it was America's and regional bloggers still have not come down from Cloud 9…
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Fidel Castro praised Barack Obama today as a smarter and less warlike than John McCain, but stopped short of endorsing either US presidential candidate.
Cuba's former president said he delayed weighing in until the US Election Day so that "no one would have time to say I wrote something that cou...
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Posted by
Janine Mendes Franco
· 2:29 am
· Civil Rights & Ethnicity · Diaspora · Economy & Trade · Government & Politics · History · Human Rights · International Relations · Media & Internet
The region (and indeed the world)
thinks it knows who has won the race to the White House, but the suspense is killing Caribbean bloggers. Seriously. The mood in the blogosphere is positively electric, with (almost) everyone catching Obamamania...
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Posted by
Janine Mendes Franco
· 2:01 pm
· Civil Rights & Ethnicity · Diaspora · Gender · Globalization · Government & Politics · History · International Relations · Media & Internet · Terrorism and Security
There is no doubt about it, the 2008 US Presidential election has captured the attention of the world. Whatever the reasons for the unprecedented global interest, there is one common denominator - the rest of the world will continue to be affected by US policies - so in a sense, this is their election as much as it is America's. And in one little corner of the world, at America's back door, Caribbean bloggers have been monitoring developments and waiting for this day...
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