Shows featuring Peter Kornbluh

  • WikiLeaks in Latin America: Online Whistleblower’s Wide Impact in Region Where Assange Seeks Asylum

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    If Julian Assange is granted asylum in Ecuador, he will become a resident of Latin America, where the trove of classified U.S. State Department cables he strategically disseminated through WikiLeaks has generated hundreds of headlines, from Mexico to Chile. A year after thousands of cables on Latin America were first released,...
    August 03, 2012 | Story

  • Alleged Cuban Airline Bomber Free After Acquittal on Immigration Charges

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    Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative best known as the suspected mastermind of the deadly 1976 bombing of a Cuban airline jet, was acquitted Friday. He wasn’t facing terrorism charges, but 11 charges of perjury, immigration fraud, and obstruction of justice. Although the U.S. government believes he is an international...
    April 11, 2011 | Story

  • New Docs Show Kissinger Rescinded Warning on Assassinations Days Before Letelier Bombing in DC

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    A newly declassified document offers new evidence that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger canceled a warning against carrying out a secret program of international political assassinations just days before former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his American colleague, Ronni Moffitt, were killed in Washington, DC....
    April 12, 2010 | Story

  • Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuban President

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    Fidel Castro announced today he is resigning as Cuban president, ending forty-nine years in office. In a statement, the eighty-one-year-old Castro wrote, "It would betray my conscience to take up a responsibility that requires mobility and total devotion, that I am not in a physical condition to offer." We speak to Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National...
    February 19, 2008 | Story