Brazil's president-elect, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, has professedadmiration for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. Bush's agendafor his upcoming meeting with Lula should focus on Brazil'spotential support for regional non-democratic regimes, its neededparticipation in counterterrorism and counterdrug operations, andmutual efforts to lower barriers to trade.
For the 30th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly (GA) overwhelmingly condemned the United States’ embargo on Cuba and called on Washington to end its wide-ranging punitive sanctions, reports Ian Ellis-Jones.
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