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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 16, 2009

  Washington's double standard on Cuba

By Brandon Bloch COHA Research Associate The recent lifting of Cuba’s suspension from membership in the Organization of American States indicates that Washington’s domination of the Inter-American system has passed. The preconditions set by the OAS for Cuba’s readmission were far...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 17, 2009

  AIDS on the rise in Cuban youth, say officials

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- Cuban health authorities have warned of a dramatic rise in AIDS cases among the young on the island, where there over 1,300 new HIV infections in 2008 and another 1,400 are estimated for this year. Cubans aged 19 to 24 are at the greatest risk of infection, said Jorge...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 8, 2009

  Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday. Officials said they were lowering the prices of 24 basic goods to help...... [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 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]

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 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]

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