Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
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You have also at the same time Castro and the revolution being the glue that held the United States together with a lot of these dictators.Edwidge Danticat
That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.
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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
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So at least the people who have another voice and people who are interested in other things can have a place to put their information and be heard.
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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
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