Congo President Joseph Mobutu last week nationalized the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, ... The Congo: Crisis Over Copper. 3 minute read. TIME. January 13, 1967 12:00 AM GMT-5.

In 2008, in order to offset a budget crisis, ... In the other lies the Soviet Union in 1991, a superpower that no one imagined could collapse — until it did. Read more.

Soviet-style “show” elections are not just limited to the Democrats these days. They’re also a staple of third-world dictatorships, such as Iran and Venezuela.

Six decades after the Cuban Revolution, the country is again undergoing a severe economic crisis, this time worse than the infamous “Special Period” in the 1990s. Subscribe. Login.

Later, Leopold sold the Congo to his own government for a fortune! At independence in 1960, the Congo was a tragic story, matters just got worse with the turn of events that followed.

The note, which outlined the Soviet position and proposals for the solution of the Congo crisis, was presumably identical with the notes on the subject sent to the heads of other Asian and African ...

IF we are much too near the recent tumultuous and tragic events in Poland and Hungary to write their history or to venture any predictions for the future in Eastern Europe, we can at least make a ...

The “Congo crisis,” as it was called ... I can use these people,” he told me—but was convinced that his readiness to flirt with the Soviet Union placed Congo in acute danger of falling ...

President Donald Trump stands uniquely positioned as head of state for the most powerful country on Earth to act as a peacemaker, and his latest announcement via social media platform Truth Social ...

Cuba’s current crisis is worse than the Special Period, but the private sector offers some hope. ... as the economic downturn that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union is known.