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IN MID-DECEMBER, SOME 114 MEMBERS OF CONgress sent a forceful letter to President Joe Biden calling for "immediate humanitarian actions" to lift the economic sanctions "that prevent food, medicine, and other humanitarian assistance from reaching the Cuban people." Torricelli's missionary passion is directed toward tightening the already strict U.S. embargo on Cuba, so as to, in his words, "shorten the suffering of the Cuban people by isolating Castro and forcing him out." - Editorial, "The Inertia of Folly", March 2, 1964 At the heart of the United States policy toward Cuba is the economic embargo. [Extracted from the article]

The State Department and the Pentagon have established task forces to intensify their bureaucratic focus on the issue; the CIA has upgraded its efforts by appointing a new task force chief - an undercover counterterrorism operative who is a veteran of the campaign to track down and kill Osama bin Laden. How could we not tell them to watch out for this?" The delay in sharing information between the CIA and the State Department was a critical error in managing the emerging crisis, according to the first internal State Department investigation - an investigation that itself was delayed as the Trump administration appeared to stall any inquiry that would acknowledge the CIA presence in Cuba. FEATURES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AND WITH LITTLE FANfare, on October 8, President Joe Biden signed the Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act into law. Reviewing all plausible theories - chemical poisoning and psychological factors among them - the NAS team concluded that "many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms, and observations reported by [State Department and CIA] employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency.". [Extracted from the article]

ON A RAINY DAY last December, President Barack Obama gathered a small group of senior officials in the Oval Office and placed a telephone call to Raul Castro. Sitting on [...]

Once Allende was overthrown, Kissinger became the leading enabler of Pinochet's repressive new regime. FEATURES AS HENRY KISSINGER REACHES 100 YEARS OF AGE ON May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody military coup that the former US national security adviser helped orchestrate in September 1973. The declassified historical record leaves no doubt that Kissinger was the chief architect of US efforts to destabilize the democratically elected government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the Argentina history's verdict on the repression of the "Dirty War" declassified by the U.S. president Donald Trump administration, by 47,000 pages of secret U.S. intelligence files. It further discusses Argentina's role in the international terrorism campaign known as Operation Condor and the fate of hundreds of desaparecidos who were kidnapped, tortured and murdered and views of Carlos Osorio, senior analyst at the National Security Archive, on issue.