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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 25, 2009

  The solid arguments have been trampled on once again

• Statement by the OSPAAAL Executive Secretariat The Organization for Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) condemns the refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of the five Cuban heroes unjustly incarcerated in U.S. territory for almost 11...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 24, 2009

  Obama can order the release of the Five, Alarcón reaffirms

MATANZAS (AIN).— U.S. President Barack Obama can order the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the United States, Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, reaffirmed. The likewise member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba gave a master...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 23, 2009

  'WE APOLOGISE FOR SLAVERY'

HEART TO HEART With Betty Ann Blaine Dear Reader, It took 144 years since the abolition of slavery in 1865 for the United States to issue a formal apology. I'm not sure if the saying "Better late than never" is apropos, considering the length of time it took for that government to say...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 17, 2009

  Voices against infamy

Deisy Francis Mexidor "WE never placed our hopes on the U.S. judicial system," but this day will be "marked forever as one of the most shameful in U.S. jurisprudence,"...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 23, 2009

  The Cuban Five: A starkly controversial case

By Deanna Cox: COHA Research Associate - During Barack Obama’s first three months in office, his administration took several tentative steps toward rehabilitating the US relationship with Cuba. Up to now such ties have been dominated by unremitting hostility towards the Castro Regime of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 12, 2009

  Cuba rejects need for steps to improve US ties

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- A top Cuban official has rejected the need for Cuba to make any preliminary steps to allow for the lifting of a US trade embargo. "Cuba has to do absolutely nothing because it did not do anything to the United States," Ricardo Alarcon, speaker of the Cuban national...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 28, 2009

  Gestures that are impressive

Reflections of Fidel I confess that I have meditated many times on the dramatic history of John F. Kennedy. It so happened that I experienced the period during which he was the greatest and most dangerous adversary of the Revolution. That was something which was not within his...... [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 17, 2009

  Caribbean cannot base tourism on US embargo against Cuba

By Sir Ronald Sanders: US President Barack Obama has fulfilled a promise made to Cuban-Americans during last year’s Presidential campaign to ease travel restrictions allowing them to visit Cuba as they wish, and to send money back home to their dependents. This decision has caused more...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 16, 2009

  Officers with sound beliefs

(Taken from Cubadebate) IT is not known how many people in the United States write to Obama and how many different issues they put to him. Obviously, he cannot read all the letters and tackle every issue, because neither the 24 hours of the day and the 365 days of the year would be...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 14, 2009

  Cubans say Obama move will help families

By Jeff Franks and Pascal Fletcher: HAVANA/MIAMI (Reuters) -- President Barack Obama's lifting of US curbs on family travel and remittances to Cuba will bring divided families closer and supplement stressed budgets on the island, Cubans and Cuban Americans said on Monday. On both sides of...... [view]

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