Cuba
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Video: Will Cuban Reforms Create More Inequality? – James Early on Reality Asserts Itself pt3
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, James Early who has visited Cuba more than thirty times says what’s needed is more citizen participation and less centralization but Cuba is not headed towards the Chinese capitalist model Continue reading
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Juan Formell: Talking about salsa By Rafael Lam
JUAN Formell has a new award this year, the Grammy Special Prize for Excellence. With his group Los Van Van, he has already received the Artist of the World Prize at the WOMEX Expo (October 23-27, 2013 in Cardiff, Wales). This is the first time that a Cuban has received this prize. Continue reading
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FOIA Sourcing: Cuban Intervention in Angola By Lauren Harper
In November 1975 while Angola was battling for independence and internal and external forces were competing for primacy, Cuban forces militarily intervened in support of the leftist MPLA movement and against US-supported movements.“By the end of 1975 the Cuban military in Angola numbered more than 25,000 troops. Following the retreat of Zaire and South Africa,… Continue reading
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History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro, Sixty Years Later By Maximilian Forte
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s famous “History Will Absolve Me” speech, given in his defense during his trial following the unsuccessful guerrilla attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26 of that year. Continue reading
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“Cuban Democracy” versus “American Democracy” By Arnold August and Julie Lévesque
Part I of an interview with Arnold August, author of Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion Continue reading
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Video: Cuba Feliz – A Trip Through Cuba
Seventy-six-year-old Cuban street musician Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), travels around Cuba with his guitar, making music in the homes of friends, in bars, and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. Continue reading
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ALAN GROSS CASE SPOTLIGHTS U.S. DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS IN CUBA
The U.S. government has “between five to seven different transition plans” for Cuba, and the USAID-sponsored “Democracy” program aimed at the Castro government is “an operational activity” that demands “continuous discretion,” according to documents filed in court this week, and posted today by the National Security Archive. The records were filed by Development Alternatives Inc… Continue reading
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Cuba, Socialism and Cybernetics By Ivet González
“It is not an option for our future development, it’s an imperative of our time,” economist Ricardo Torres told IPS. “Without the mass application of the New Information and Communications Technologies (NICT), to production processes and social life, there are no contemporary possibilities of development.” Continue reading
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Mikoyan’s “Mission Impossible” in Cuba: New Soviet Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis continued long after the “13 days” celebrated by U.S. media, with U.S. armed forces still on DEFCON 2 and Soviet tactical nuclear weapons still in Cuba, according to new documents posted today by the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org) from the personal archive of the late Sergo Mikoyan. Continue reading
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Fidel Castro Denounces Media Deception, Lies
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, said today that although many people in the world are deceived by the media which is almost completely in the hands of privileged and wealthy owners who publish garbage, generally speaking, people are less and less taken in by such lies. Continue reading
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Video: Chucho Valdes – Calle 54
Chucho Valdes, son of the great Cuban pianist, Bebo Valdes, recorded as part of the documentary film “Calle 54,” produced by Fernando Trueba. Continue reading
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The fruit which did not fall By Fidel Castro Ruiz
CUBA was forced to fight for its existence facing an expansionist power, located a few miles from its coast, and which was proclaiming the annexation of our island, which was destined to fall into its lap like a ripe fruit. We were condemned not to exist as a nation. Continue reading
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Genocidal Cynicism Part Two BY Fidel Castro
While Israel was speedily creating a nuclear arsenal, in 1981 it attacked and destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak. It did exactly the same thing to the Syrian reactor at Dayr az-Zawr in 2007, an occurrence of which world opinion was oddly not informed. Continue reading
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Genocidal Cynicism Part One BY Fidel Castro
I feel the duty to convey to those taking the trouble to read these Reflections the opinion that all of us, with no exception, are obliged to create awareness about the risks that humankind are running in an inexorable manner, towards a final and total catastrophe as the consequence of irresponsible decisions made by politicians… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, August 15, 2011: TOP SECRET CIA ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ OF THE BAY OF PIGS: REVELATIONS
This episode of ‘friendly fire’ is one of many revelations contained in the Top Secret multi-volume, internal CIA report, “The Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation.” Other revelations include new information on the CIA’s collaboration with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro as part of the invasion plan, Richard Nixon’s role in the… Continue reading
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In Cuba, the revolution continues, softly, as times change By John Pilger
‘Accelerating the hard features of Cuba,’ a US diplomat once said memorably, ‘will be the measure of our success, not theirs.’ Continue reading
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CIA FORCED TO RELEASE LONG SECRET OFFICIAL HISTORY OF BAY OF PIGS INVASION
Pursuant to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive on the 50th anniversary of the infamous CIA-led invasion of Cuba, the CIA has released four volumes of its Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation. Continue reading
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