Fidel Castro
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Fidel: Humanity is an endangered species
I would have liked to talk today about the exceptional Peace without Borders concert that took place in the Jose Marti Plaza de la Revolucion 24 hours ago, but brutal reality obliges me to write about a danger that is threatening not only peace but also the survival of our species. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 72 Keeping track of the empire's crimes
If you catch the CIA with its hand in the cookie jar and the Agency admits the obvious — what your eyes can plainly see — that its hand is indeed in the cookie jar, it means one of two things: a) the CIA’s hand is in several other cookie jars at the same time… Continue reading
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Honduras: Fidel Castro Ruz, "A Suicidal Error"
Before dawn today they deployed 200 professional and well-trained soldiers to attack the president’s residence. Roughly pushing aside the Honor Guard squadron, they then kidnapped Zelaya, who was sleeping at that point, took him to the air base, forcibly bundled him aboard an airplane, and transported him to an air base in Costa Rica. Continue reading
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Fidel Ordered Chavez ‘Rescue’ By Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
Castro states that he phoned Miraflores Palace before Chávez surrendered and told him: “Don’t kill yourself, Hugo. Don’t do like Allende, who was a man alone. You have most of the Army on your side. Don’t quit, don’t resign. Continue reading
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COHA: The Cuban Who Won’t Be in Trinidad
While the Cuban leader has demonstrated flexibility and emerged as a harbinger of change, Obama has instead taken the most conservative approach possible towards modifying the U.S.-Cuban relationship Continue reading
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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US politicians meet ‘fit’ Castro
A seven-strong team of congressional Democrats is currently in Cuba, looking into ways to improve US-Cuban relations, but only three of them attended the meeting with Mr Castro. Continue reading
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COHA: Revamping U.S.-Cuban Politics: Playing the Guantánamo Card in a Game of Constructive Diplomacy
In recent months, media coverage of Guantánamo Bay has focused on the relocation and plans for the prosecution of detainees now housed there by the United States government. But there is another issue that all but goes unaddressed – the legitimacy of the U.S. naval base’s very presence along the southeastern coastline of Cuba. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 