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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 5, 2009

  Cuba hails 'victory' on OAS vote, declines to rejoin

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- The Cuban government on Thursday declined to return to the Organization of American States (OAS), despite hailing a landmark decision to lift the body's 47-year ban on Havana as a "major victory." The OAS vote is "a major victory for Latin America and the Caribbean and...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD
Posted On:  Jun 1, 2009

  New blog: "Europe in the Americas" on Blogactiv.eu

I want to point interested readers toward my new weblog on relations between EUROPE (including the EU) & THE AMERICAS. I'd like to counter the widespread tendency to "fragment" the Americas into just "Latin America", or just "North America" or just "the Caribbean". The Americas: our history,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 31, 2009

  OAS begins work on political party and campaign finance reform in the Caribbean

By Oscar Ramjeet: Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent - Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com: WASHINGTON, USA -- The Organisation of American States (OAS) has embarked on a comprehensive initiative to provide model legislation on political party and campaign financing in the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 30, 2009

  The shameful history of the OAS (III and Final)

• End of the ministry of colonies of the USA On September 2, 1960, after the OAS conspiracy against Cuba was established in San José, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro convened the Cuban people in a Great General Assembly in the José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, and read out 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 25, 2009

  Pontius Pilate washed his hands

Reflections of Fidel SO great was the pressure against the U.S. blockade of Cuba that, on the day that Raúl categorically declared that our country would not enter the OAS, the secretary of that discredited institution began to prepare the ground for Cuba’s participation in a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 23, 2009

  The Summit and the lie

Reflections of Fidel SOME of the things that Daniel told me would be hard to believe if it was not him who told me them and it was not at a Summit of the Americas where they occurred. The unusual thing is that there was no such consensus on the final document. The ALBA group did not...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 21, 2009

  Delirious dreams

Reflections of Fidel I could not understand the cause of the euphoria that some of the participants in the Port of Spain Summit are expressing. I made a great effort and read the famous Declaration of Commitment approved in that "Summit of the Americas." I had listened to the press...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 19, 2009

  Embargo up to US, Cuba

Ria Taitt Political Editor - Although Canada feels that the US trade embargo against Cuba is not the way to go, its removal is ultimately a matter between Cuba and the United States, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday. Speaking at a news conference at the...... [view]

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