Tag: Jimmy Carter

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 23:57 UTC

  Jimmy Carter calls for the end of US embargo and democracy in Cuba

  

  Former US president Jimmy Carter - on a visit to Cuba - has criticized US policy towards the island. Carter said the decades-long US trade embargo and travel ban damaged the Cuban people and hindered rather than helped reform.
  He also urged the Cuban government to move towards democracy and allow complete freedom of speech.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  Carter wants Brazil to play a role in Mid East peace; US mediation exhausted

  

  On the same day that work began on a new Palestinian embassy in Brasilia, Brazilian president Lula da Silva said that peace in the Middle East was impossible with the United States as a mediator, reported the Palestine News Network.