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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 20, 2011

  Cuba: 50th anniversary of the bay of pigs

Reparations, not an exchange by Gabriel Molina   THE ten prisoners who comprised the delegation sent to Washington to discuss the payment of compensation for the April Bay of Pigs invasion returned to Cuba, May 27, 1961. They were taken to the naval hospital...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 14, 2010

  Britain holding the handle, Jamaica the blade

BY DIANE ABBOTT JAMAICA may soon face a flood of prisoners, who are currently in British jails, being returned to their homeland in order to serve the rest of their sentences. This revelation emerged in the British tabloids last week and has been discussed in the Jamaica Parliament....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 7, 2010

  Uprising at the UN - (Second and final part)

Reflections of Fidel WHEN Bruno concluded his speech around midday last October 26, as is the norm, it was then time for the explanations of vote prior to the resolution being submitted to the vote. First to speak was U.S. ambassador Ronald D. Godard, senior area advisor for...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 10, 2010

  Uncle Sam's double standard: From Cubana tragedy to 5 Cuban prisoners in USA

By Rickey Singh LAST Wednesday's 34th anniversary of the bombing by "anti-Castro" terrorists of a Cubana passenger aircraft off Barbados that killed all 73 people onboard, also coincided with the launch of an appeal by Caribbean citizens for the release of five Cuban political prisoners...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 5, 2010

  US agency exploited Guatemalans for lethal medical tests

By Rafael Azul The exposure of a 64-year-old secret study conducted in Guatemala on human subjects by the US Public Health Service has created an international uproar, forcing the US government to issue a belated apology. The criminal experiment was brought to light last May in a paper...... [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:  Mar 18, 2010

  Amnesty International says Cuba needs reform

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Amnesty International said Cuba "desperately" needs political and legal reform and called for the communist country to release all political prisoners. The London-based rights group criticized the Cuban government for putting its opponents behind bars for years for...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 6, 2010

  Leonard Peltier and the notorious perversity of USA-style justice

By Elsa Claro TWO hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice, John Marshall, ruled that the legal relationship of the land’s original inhabitants with the United States was not one of equals, but of "wardship," given that it dealt with people "completely lacking in...... [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]

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