President Donald Trump’s confirmation that he will keep his campaign promise and build a wall along the Mexican border has outraged the Latin American ruling classes. Mexico’s former president Vicente Fox eloquently wrote on his Twitter account that his country “is not going to pay for that f***ing wall.” Behind the media’s fury at Trump’s […]
By Matthew Vadum —FrontPage Mag As a final sop to his friends and fans in Communist Cuba, President Obama yesterday abruptly ended the two decade-old compassionate immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who made it to U.S. soil to remain in this country and become a legal resident. This middle finger to the Cuban community […]
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president and leader of the leftist Socialist revolution, has died aged 90, Cuban state TV has announced. It provided no further details. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century before handing over the powers to his brother Raul in 2008. Leftist supporters praised him as a man […]
Mexico is allowing Panama to dump nearly 4,000 Cuban migrants on the U.S. border, revealing the hypocrisy of Mexican officials as they attack conservative immigration policies such as Trumps. The Cubans have been stranded in Panama after Nicaragua closed its border last year, preventing them from traveling north to the U.S., so the Panama government asked Mexican […]
Filmmaker and American citizen Agustin Blazquez never thought his native Cuba would become a communist country, but now he sees the same radical shift happening in America. In an interview , he says the left has been clever by using “very non-threatening words,” like liberal, progressive and concerned citizens, for advancing government control of American […]
The US Embassy in Havana opened in 1953 and designed by U.S. firm Harrison & Abramovitz. But the U.S. Embassy didn’t close, exactly, and it didn’t lie vacant. On Jan. 7, 1961, U.S. chargé d’affaires Daniel Braddock handed the keys over to the Swiss embassy in Havana, and the Swiss held on to the building […]
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) denounced President Barack Obama’s decision to open an embassy in Cuba before Washington has an embassy in Jerusalem. “How sad is it that under the Obama administration the United States is going to have an embassy in Havana before we have an embassy in Jerusalem?” Cruz said Wednesday’s on […]
President Barack Obama will announce on Wednesday that the United States and Cuba have reached an agreement to open embassies in Havana and Washington, an administration official confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday. The announcement marks a major step in ending hostilities between the longtime foes and an opportunity to re-establish formal diplomatic relations. The […]
President Obama will have trouble appointing an ambassador to Cuba following his decision to normalize relations with the Communist government, predicts the outgoing Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On Sunday, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., told CNN that past actions on the part of the Obama administration would make it “very difficult to […]
By Matthew Vadum Front Page Mag Lawmakers opposed to President Obama’s sudden move to cozy up to Communist Cuba are vowing a full-court press to prevent official diplomatic recognition of the tropical prison republic from going forward. But it is far from clear if lawmakers will be able to do much about Obama’s Cuban escapades. […]
