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Russian oil companies are expressing an interest in tapping Cuba’s offshore oil potential ahead of an official state visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Brazil may get the contracts to drill the deep water wells while US firms can do…

This will make next week’s vote at the U.N. General Assembly, condemning the U.S. policy of embargo and the extraterritorial sanctions embodied in the Helms-Burton Act, even more lonely for the United States. It is quite a prominent dismissal of…

Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army Colonel and past aide & adviser to Colin Powell, on why Cuba embargo needs to end now. Let’s chalk up the losses of late in Latin America: We’re being tossed out of Venezuela. We’re being tossed…

The Havana Note is a DC-based blog whose contributors include Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a former aide to Colin Powell. They favor “engagement with Cuba” and, I assume, ending the embargo. They can be quite Cuba-friendly. But they do think there’s…