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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 16, 2009

  Raul Castro attacks Obama Administration for keeping embargo

By Alaa Shahine and Henry Meyer: CAIRO, Egypt (Bloomberg) -- Cuban leader Raul Castro condemned President Barack Obama’s administration for maintaining a five- decade-old US trade embargo against his Communist island nation. The embargo runs counter to “almost unanimous” demands from...... [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 11, 2009

  The struggle has barely begun

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) GOVERNMENTS might change, but the instruments with which they converted us into colonies are still the same. For one president in the United States with a sense of ethics, in the last 28 years we have had three who committed...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 8, 2009

  The only U.S. president I have known

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) CARTER is the only ex-president of the United States that I have had the honor of knowing, apart from Nixon, who had not as yet become president. I had visited Washington to take part in a press conference that represented a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 3, 2009

  The day of the poor of the world

REFLECTIONS BY COMRADE FIDEL Tomorrow is International Workers Day. Karl Marx made a call for unity: "Workers of All Countries, Unite," although many poor people were not proleterian. Lenin called more broadly still for the peasants and colonized peoples to struggle united under the...... [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 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 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]

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:  Mar 30, 2009

  China: the future great economic power

(Taken from Cubadebate THESE days many cables are talking about China’s economic potential. Yesterday, March 28, it was the turn of the principal U.S. news agency to acknowledge that "China is the only economy growing at a fast clip… "In his second rebuke of U.S. leadership this...... [view]

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