Eye on the World with John Batchelor

Photo: Dominic Serres the Elder – The Siege of Havana, 1762, view of the city.   A view of the city from the North West, with the Moro Castle, with His Majesty’s Sloops of War, Bonetta and Cygnet, assisting to open the booms, and His Majesty’s land forces in flat boats going to take possession of the Punto Castle and the North Gate of the city, 14th August 1762 #NewWorldReport: Appeasing Cuba.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil, @ernestofaraujo. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-ends-trump-era-cuba-restrictions-worst-political-moment-n1295533

Photo:  A 1997 image of MBR-200 members meeting. Nicolás Maduro can be seen on the far left while Hugo Chávez is seen speaking in the center. #NewWorldReport:  Conceding to Maduro. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil, @ernestofaraujo. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/politics/us-venezuela-oil-sanctions.html .. Permissions A 1997 image of MBR-200 members meeting. Nicolás Maduro can be seen on the far left while Hugo Chávez is seen speaking in the center. Date | 11 February 2017 Source | Hugo Chávez Author | Store norske leksikon This file is made available by its copyright holder under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0. While the Public Domain Mark is not intended to be used as a license, community consensus has found that when a copyright holder applies the PDM to their own work, they are declaring their work to be in the public domain.

Photo:  Meeting of foreign ministers in the framework of the VIII Summit of the Americas in Lima – Peru (2018) #NewWorldReport: Summit of the Americas.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil, @ernestofaraujo. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/summit-of-the-americas-invites-are-out-but-no-final-decision-on-excluding-cuba-white-house-says/ar-AAXxF2d ,, Permissions Reunión de cancilleres en el marco de la VIII Cumbre de las Américas en Lima – Perú (2018) Date | 12 April 2018, 21:41:00 Source | Reunión de Cancilleres del Grupo de Revisión de implementación de Cumbres (GRIC), en el marco de la VIII Cumbre de las Américas Author | Galería del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Perú This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. | You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Photo: Colombia’s national capital, 1893 Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego is a Colombian politician and economist who’s serving as senator of the Republic of Colombia. #NewWorldReport: Gustavo Petro in the lead for the first round.    Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org   Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil, @ernestofaraujo. https://www.ft.com/content/927a92d3-a4fb-4a37-bb23-414ebcc1a672

Photo:  Taiwan Sunmoon Lake #Taiwan: “Yes.”  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill    Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute’s new China Policy Initiative https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/23/biden-says-us-willing-to-use-force-to-defend-taiwan.html