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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 4, 2012

  Reflections on the Jamaican general election - 29 December 2011

Reflections on the Jamaican election BY FRANKLIN W KNIGHT:   Jamaican election, as any election anywhere else, affords an opportunity to examine political trends as well as social attitudes. Some observations are unsurprising and in retrospect the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 20, 2011

  Cuba: 50th anniversary of the bay of pigs

Reparations, not an exchange by Gabriel Molina   THE ten prisoners who comprised the delegation sent to Washington to discuss the payment of compensation for the April Bay of Pigs invasion returned to Cuba, May 27, 1961. They were taken to the naval hospital...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 23, 2011

  The first issue to be resolved by the world community would be to choose between food and bio-fuels...

Reflections of Fidel Now is the time to do something (Taken from CubaDebate)       I shall recount a little bit of history. When the Spaniards "discovered us" five centuries ago, the estimated figure for the population...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 12, 2010

  Nationalism in a post-Independence Bahamas

By RUPERT MISSICK JR - rmissick@tribunemedia.net and NOELLE NICOLLS - nnicolls@tribunemedia.net Tribune Staff Reporters: IN Derek Walcott’s celebrated poem “The Schooner Flight” the character Shabine describes himself: "I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, I had a sound...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 14, 2010

  Yankis: Remember April

CUBA, VENEZUELA Nidia Díaz • HISTORY has its caprices which, as time passes, become symbols. On April 19, 1961, the Cubans defeated the mercenary invasion on the sandy beaches of Playa Giron. The Bay of Pigs invasion was been backed and paid for by the U.S. government, in an...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 10, 2009

  The annexation of Colombia to the United States

Reflections of Fidel ANY person who is even moderately well-informed can immediately see that the sugar-coated "Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States," signed on October 30 and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 1, 2009

  Justice in the United States

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) IF I was to affirm that chaos reigns in the United States they would say that I am exaggerating, that that country is a democracy where justice exists, as does respect for human rights and the division of powers, constructed on the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 27, 2009

  The shameful history of the OAS (II)

• The OAS against Cuba • Inter-American complicity in and legitimization of U.S. aggression against the Cuban people • Raúl Roa’s battle for dignity ON March 18, 1959, just two and a half months after the popular victory of January 1st, Raúl Roa García, the new Cuban...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 22, 2009

  The shameful history of the OAS (Part 1)

• Emergence and development of the Organization of American States • Its role in the region • Inter-American complicity in U.S. aggression against the Cuban people • Raul Roa’s battle for dignity • The OAS must be dismantled as the only liberating option for today • Cuba...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 24, 2009

  Documents show Robert Kennedy tried to lift Cuba travel ban

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) -- One month after president John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his brother, attorney general Robert Kennedy, tried to convince the US government to lift its travel ban to Cuba, according to documents released Thursday by the National Security Archive. Freedom to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 20, 2009

  The Secret Summit

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) WHILE neither represented at nor excommunicated from the Port of Spain Summit we were able to find out what has been discussed there up until today. We were led to fully expect that the meeting would not be private, but the stage...... [view]

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