Tag: Jimmy Carter

• Tuesday, January 15th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Ireland's Sinn Féin attends Maduro's inauguration and praises Venezuelan election

  

  A Sinn Féin MLA has defended his attendance at the inauguration of the Venezuelan president and denied that the election was fraudulent. Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a second term as Venezuela's president last Thursday.

• Monday, November 20th 2017 - 11:31 UTC

  Jimmy Carter awarded highest honor by Argentina for his defense of human rights

  

  Former United States President Jimmy Carter was recently recognized by the Argentine government in a ceremony held at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter, 93, was conferred the highest honor awarded by the government of Argentina: the ‘Order of the Liberator General San Martín.’

• Sunday, October 23rd 2016 - 06:50 UTC

  Rapprochement with Cuba: Four decades ago Jimmy Carter tried to come to terms with Havana

  

  Four decades ago, U.S. ex president James Carter tried to do in secret what Barack Obama finally achieved publicly and in a less adverse context: to start a process to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. In a long article, the Cuban newspaper Granma reveals that Carter (1976/1980) had been the only US president who set in writing his intention to promote dialogue between Washington and Havana.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 10:30 UTC

  Ex US president Carter ends Guyana election monitoring trip after falling ill

  

  Former United States President Jimmy Carter ended an election-monitoring trip to Guyana early and flew home on Sunday after falling ill, the Carter Center, his nonprofit organization, said in a statement. The Carter Center provided only sketchy information on Sunday about the condition of the 90-year-old former president.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2014 - 06:03 UTC

  Kissinger wanted to smash Cuba in 1976 for its intervention in Angola

  

  US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew up plans to “smash Cuba” with air strikes nearly 40 years ago, government papers obtained by researchers show. He was angered by Cuba's 1976 military intervention in Angola and was considering retaliation if Cuban forces were deployed elsewhere in Africa.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 01:20 UTC

  Carter Centre absent as observer from Venezuelan October presidential election

  

  The Atlanta based Carter Centre said this week that it declined an invitation from Venezuela's National Electoral Council to have a team at the country's Oct. 7 presidential election. The Centre said it received the invitation too late ”to evaluate it and organize the necessary experts and financing”.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 06:06 UTC

  US is ending three-decade subsidies on corn ethanol

  

  The US government is ending a three-decade-old policy of subsidizing corn ethanol, but it appears that the loss of the 6 billion dollars annual benefit will have little impact on farmers.

• 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.