Cuba
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Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920–2019), the school struggled financially until the Cuban Revolution decided that ballet – like other art forms – must be available to everyone and so must be… Continue reading
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Russia won’t congratulate CIA on its diamond jubilee
In the Russian journal Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence), the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin has written a riveting essay on the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency, which falls on Sunday. It is an unusual gesture, especially in the middle of the hybrid war in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Cuba: Sanctions fuel the fire!
In Cuba, a massive fire broke out at an oil storage facility in the city of Matanzas last week. Around 7pm local time on August 5, a lightning strike set off a blaze in crude oil storage tank 52 at the Matanzas Supertanker Base. As of the morning of August 8, three out of the eight tanks at the site had collapsed. Continue reading
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Cuban vaccine against lung cancer makes its way in the United States
Cimavax-EGF, a Cuban therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, conquers the scientific community and the population of the United States based on the achievements compiled in studies carried out. The vaccine was obtained after more than two decades of research and have shown satisfactory results in patients in advanced stages of lung cancer. Continue reading
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‘We Will Prevail’: A Conversation With Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel
In 1994, Miguel Díaz-Canel began a new position in Santa Clara, not far from his birthplace of Placetas, as the provincial secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. He set aside the air-conditioned car given to him and went to work each morning on his bicycle, his long hair and jeans defining him. Díaz-Canel organized rock… Continue reading
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The Code of Families, a Document Built Among All Cubans
This week, Cuba began a historic process as Cubans started to going to more than 78,000 meeting points to discuss the new draft of the Family Code, a broad, complex, but very important process for Cuban families. Continue reading
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Cuban Government Spokeswoman Joins BT on Failed Regime Change Plot
The Biden administration, CIA, and associated cut-outs and think tanks were promoting what were supposed to be massive protests in Cuba this week, but turned out to be nearly non-existent. Deputy Director of US Affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry Johana Tablada de la Torre explains what happened to the CIA-fomented plans for protest and why the… Continue reading
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How the US Government Stokes Racial Tensions in Cuba and Around the World
10 September 2021 — MintPress News BLM for Thee, but Not for Me In Washington’s eyes, the point of funding Black, indigenous, LGBT or other minority groups in enemy countries is not simply to promote tensions there; it is also to create a narrative that will help convince liberals and leftists in the United States Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 11-14 August 2021
14 August 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US imposes more sanctions on crippled Cuba, this time on interior ministry officials and military unit https://www.rt.com/news/531985-usa-new-sanctions-cuba/ Cuba, China, Latin America and the World https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-china-latin-america-world/5752875 Continue reading
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Cuba’s US-Backed Pop-Culture Dissidents
Over the past decade, Washington has spent millions to cultivate anti-government rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in Cuba, Max Blumenthal reports. Continue reading
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Foreign Agents #1: Exposing the San Isidro Movement & US culture war on Cuba
In new Rokfin livestream, Max Blumenthal details his investigation into Cuba’s San Isidro Movement and the US sponsorship of the right-wing cultural dissident group Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 27-30 July 2021
30 July 2021 — The New Dark Age The Movement Standing Up To Biden’s Maximum Pressure Campaign https://popularresistance.org/the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/ The Great Contest of Our Time Is between Humanity and Imperialism https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/the-great-contest-of-our-time-is-between-humanity-and-imperialism/ Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 23-26 July 2021
26 July 2021 — The New Dark Age Standing with the Cuban People Mexico Readies Navy Ships To Bring Food, Supplies To Cuba https://popularresistance.org/mexico-readies-navy-ships-to-bring-food-supplies-to-cuba/ Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 19-23 July 2021
23 July 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Operation Condor II: “The Right-Wing Coalitions in the Region Have Washington’s Backing” https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/operation-condor-ii-the-right-wing-coalitions-in-the-region-have-washingtons-backing/ Washington Beats the Drum of Regime Change, but Cuba Responds to Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm: The Continue reading
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Breaking through the Western Media Propaganda Coverage of Cuba Protests
While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press. Continue reading
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Cuba News links 17-19 July 2021
19 July 2021 • 14:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back What do you really know about U.S.-Cuba relations? https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/what-do-you-really-know-about-u-s-cuba-relations/ What They Don’t Say About Cuba https://popularresistance.org/what-they-dont-say-about-cuba/ Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 15-17 July 2021
17 July 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Gaza: A Vision Of What Capital & Empire Intend For The Rest Of The Globe https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/07/gaza-vision-of-what-capital-empire.html Cuba Proves US Involvement In Destabilization Actions https://popularresistance.org/cuba-proves-u-s-involvement-in-destabilization-actions-against-the-cuban-people/ Continue reading
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Cuba: The Blockade and the Crisis
Washington believes that the time has come to intensify its attacks on any government in the region that does not obey its orders. In the last few days we have seen the suspicious assassination of the president of Haiti, with a modus operandi that bears the imprint of the CIA. Also the brutal attack by… Continue reading
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Cuban president Díaz-Canel: Revolutionaries to the streets!
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke to the Cuban people today, Sunday, July 11 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern, after going to the site of one of several protests that took place in Cuba today. This unprecedented series of events are the result of the growing difficulties the people are experiencing by the double blow created by… Continue reading
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