alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
groups, groups of color, for example, the artist like the san ysidro movement, and these are groups that have been oppressed and repressed. you have a man on a hunger strike, and other opposition groups for peaceful transition to democracy. you have hunger strikes happening in cuba and a thousand political prisoners across gender and age and political lines that are in prison. why do you think, professor, much of the world turns its back to that reality you mentioned, turns its back to people, young artists, afro cubans that are trying to just live and exist and express themselves? why is it that much of the world simply doesn t care? ideology.
Cuban Government Bans Journalist From Returning Home
Cuban Government Bans Journalist From Returning Home
Cuban journalist Karla Pérez González was stranded in Panama this week after being notified that her government had banned her from re-entry to Cuba
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(New York, NY) Cuban journalist Karla Pérez González was stranded in Panama this week after being notified that her government had banned her from re-entry to Cuba, despite meeting travel requirements and having the correct paperwork. In a statement today, PEN America decried the decision as a politically-motivated and repressive effort to exile the journalist, and demanded that authorities allow Pérez González to safely return to her country.