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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:  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 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 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]

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 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 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 18, 2009

  Raul Castro says Cuba would never return to the OAS

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- "The Organization of Americas States (OAS) has oozed blood since its very creation," said Cuban President Raul Castro on Thursday reiterating the reasons why Cuba would never accept returning to this regional organization. During the Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 8, 2009

  Meeting with Barbara Lee and other members of the Black Caucus

Reflections of Fidel THE morning was stormy, humid, cold. A strong wind was blowing and the sky was clouded. It was not a spring day, or warm. Barbara wanted to visit the ELAM [Latin American School of Medicine], where 114 young people from the United States are studying...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 4, 2009

  Cuba: honey of power and flowers of pragmatism

MOSCOW. (Oleg Vyazmitinov, RIA Novosti correspondent in Cuba) - Last Monday brought crucial news to Cuba: a number of key ministers were sacked, and a merger of four ministries announced. News reports and analyses published in leading Western newspapers claim the turnaround in Cuba's home...... [view]

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