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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 8, 2011

  Venezuela's Chavez: Voices in the night

By Rebecca Theodore The soft chimes of sorrow and delight haunt the chambers of the Venezuelan night. Straggling garments swish through her marble halls as Chavez lay fringed with fright from the celestial walls. The serene, majestic presence of the night hooves a mighty spell...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 10, 2010

  Castro admits his 'Cuban Model' has failed

By Anthony L. Hall: Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro seems to be recovering from the gastrointestinal problems that nearly killed him a few years ago in a manner that is worthy of Lazarus. Indeed, nothing demonstrated his miraculous triumph over the Grim Reaper quite like his donning army...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 12, 2010

  Cuba leaders 'do not want' normal ties with US, says Clinton

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) -- Cuba's leadership does not want to normalize ties with Washington because they would "lose their excuses" for the country's economic stagnation, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. The United States maintains a decades-old trade embargo on the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 11, 2010

  Cuba: We will defend the truth with our ethics and our principles

Granma.cu Editorial: THE empire and its allies have launched a new crusade in an attempt to demonize Cuba. Its powerful political and media machinery has set in motion a colossal operation of deception with the object of discrediting the revolutionary process, destabilizing the country and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 9, 2010

  Angry Cuba demands removal from US terrorism list

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cuba angrily rejected on Friday US accusations that it supports terrorist groups and demanded its removal from a US list of "state sponsors of terrorism." In the communist-led island's latest public criticism of the Obama administration, Cuba's government issued a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2009

  Cubans fear hard times ahead, impatient for change

By Marc Frank: HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cubans are bracing for hard times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts government spending to get Cuba out of crisis -- and they are growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform. Hurricanes, the global recession, US...... [view]

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:  Jun 19, 2009

  Thank you Fidel, thank you Cuba

Oscar Sánchez Serra TYLER MacNiven flew to the Bahamas from California and from there to Havana on June 7; being a U.S. citizen he was unable to fly direct to the Cuban capital and, in fact, he is not even permitted to come to us via a third country. According to U.S....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 6, 2009

  While other countries are battling for Cuba to rejoin OAS, Cuba says it is not interested

By Oscar Ramjeet - In San Pedro Sula, Honduras: I write from the Press Centre while the 39th Annual Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) is in progress and I am somewhat at a loss as regards the tremendous move by nearly all of the 34 member nation for Cuba’s re-entry...... [view]

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:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 3, 2009

  Cuba reiterates that it wants nothing to do with OAS

By Oscar Ramjeet - Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent in San Pedro Sula Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- While the 39th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) is in progress in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Cuba has issued a...... [view]

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