In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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Nicaragua is once again in sights for US intervention
Why is the most powerful nation on Earth blocking trade and investment in one of the poorest? TIM YOUNG explains
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Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
THE United States, the world’s most powerful country with the largest economy and military budget, feels easily threatened. On its legislative books is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) which authorises the president to declare the existence of an “unusual and extraordinary threat … to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States” that originates “in whole or substantial part outside the United States.”
Under its provisions, the US president can block trade and investment and freeze assets to deal with the threat.
It is this executive power that the US is once again using against one of the poorest countries in the Americas: Nicaragua.
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