Tag: Columbia

  • Renewing U.S. Leadership in the Americas

    Sen. Barack Obama offers a different vision for U.S.-Cuba relations and a new posture to the Americas. Renewing U.S. Leadership in the Americas: Remarks of Senator Barack Obama before the Cuban American National Foundation, May 23, 2008 (as prepared for delivery) It is my privilege to join in this week’s Independence Day celebration, and in…

  • Stakes & Commitments

    Photo by Max Whittaker for The New York Times: Barack Obama, then known as Barry, in a 1978 senior yearbook photo at the Punahou School in Honolulu. At Punahou, a preparatory school that had few black students, he talked with friends about race, wealth and class. Back at the time the New York Times explored…