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Montevideo, February 22nd 2025 - 21:24 UTC

Tag: Robert F Kennedy Jr.

  • Saturday, February 15th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

    US Health authorities start staff downsizing under RFK, Jr.

    The measure targeted the so-called probationary workers which included new hires or old ones who had just been relocated

    US Federal authorities terminated a series of employments after Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) was confirmed by the Senate Thursday as the country's new Health Secretary. Some 1,300 probationary-level workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 1,500 others from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were laid off.

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  • Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 05:43 UTC

    We have so much to learn from Cuba

    The embargo has almost certainly helped keep the Castro brothers [Fidel and Raul] in power for the last five decades.

    By Robert F Kennedy Jr. (*) - In early December, President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than five decades of a misguided policy which my uncle, John F. Kennedy, and my father, Robert F. Kennedy, had been responsible for enforcing after the U.S. embargo against the country was first implemented in October 1960 by the Eisenhower administration.