On 9 October 1967, Che Guevara faced a shaking sergeant Mario Teran,
ordered to murder him by the Bolivian president and CIA, and declared:
"Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man." The climax of Stephen
Soderbergh's two-part epic, Che, in real life this final act of heroic
defiance marked the defeat of multiple attempts to spread the Cuban
revolution to the rest of Latin America.
Not since Richard Nixon went to China has an intractable foreign policy issue been so ripe for resolution as U.S. relations with Cuba are today.
UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly on
Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for the 17th year in a row in favor of
lifting the 46-year-old US trade embargo on communist-ruled Cuba, as
Havana hoped for better ties with a new US administration.
Some
185 of the assembly's 192 members approved a resolution, which
reiterated a "call upon all states to refrain from promulgating and
applying laws and measures (such as those in the US embargo) in
conformity with their obligations under the Charter of the United
Nations and international law."
