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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 4, 2012
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Reflections on the Jamaican election
BY FRANKLIN W KNIGHT:
Jamaican election, as any election anywhere else, affords an opportunity to examine political trends as well as social attitudes. Some observations are unsurprising and in retrospect the...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 23, 2011
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Reflections of Fidel
Now is the time to do something
(Taken from CubaDebate)
I shall recount a little bit of history.
When the Spaniards "discovered us" five centuries ago, the estimated figure for the population...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Sep 18, 2010
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BY KEEBLE McFARLANE
In the bad old days of the now defunct Soviet Union, exasperated citizens described their dilemma with a hoary old phrase: "We pretend to work and the state pretends to pay us". Well, the grand communist experiment imploded and collapsed just over two decades ago, and...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Sep 17, 2010
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This week’s announcement that over half a million Cuban workers are to be thrown out of their jobs in the next six months has laid bare the class character of the Castro regime.
The brutal measure was made public by the Central de Trabajadores Cuba (CTC), the government-controlled trade...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Sep 13, 2010
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By Patrick Martin:
Census figures for 2009, to be released Thursday, are expected to show that the poverty rate soared last year to nearly 15 percent. One out of every seven Americans is now living below the official poverty level, the highest proportion since the 1960s. One in five...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Apr 19, 2010
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Reflections of Fidel
(Taken from CubaDebate)
I had the privilege of talking for three hours last Thursday 15th with Hugo Chávez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, who had the gentility to once again visit our country, this time arriving from Nicaragua.
Few...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Apr 12, 2010
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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]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 12, 2010
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By Jeff Franks:
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) - A chill reminiscent of the Cold War is back in US-Cuban relations after hopes for warmer ties under US President Barack Obama dissipated amid familiar disputes over the US trade embargo, terrorism and spying.
After a year of relative civility and...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 9, 2010
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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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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 7, 2010
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- A US contractor detained last month in Cuba for distributing satellite communications equipment to dissidents worked for American "secret services" and is being investigated, a top Cuban official said on Wednesday.
Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon shed no...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Dec 3, 2009
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Reflections of Fidel
(Taken from CubaDebate)
IN its battle against the Cuban Revolution, the United States had its finest ally in the government of Venezuela: that of the illustrious Don Rómulo Betancourt Bello....... [view]
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