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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2011

  Cuba's domestic reforms surge past immobilized US

by Christina Curtin and Paula Lopez-Gamundi, COHA Research Associates: Decades after its inception, the United States maintains its barely modified Cold War embargo against Cuba. It seems unlikely that this blockage -- legally engrossed by the 1996 Helms-Burton Act -- will be...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 21, 2011

  One quarter of Cuban adults suffer from hypertension

By JOSÉ A. DE LA OSA:     THE number of Cubans known to be affected by high blood pressure is greater the 2.2 million, around 25% of the population, including those not being treated. Among those receiving therapeutic treatment, more than 50% do not...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 16, 2011

  Fabricating pretexts

granma.cu Editorial:   THE Cuban Revolution has been the object of hundreds of disinformation campaigns, usually orchestrated by the U.S. government with the complicity of European allies in conjunction with the powerful forces and interests which control the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 21, 2011

  Cuba: The idea of a single party is a legacy of José Martí

      The analysis of events which prevented a Cuban victory in the Ten Years War helped Martí understand that unity was absolutely essential to the defeat of Spanish colonialism. At the same time, his study of the Latin American independence struggle...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 29, 2011

  NATO’s Fascist War

Reflections of Fidel   (Taken from CubaDebate)     • I didn’t have to be a fortune teller to divine what I foresaw with rigorous precision in three Reflections which I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 23, 2011

  The first issue to be resolved by the world community would be to choose between food and bio-fuels...

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]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 6, 2010

  DECREE-LAW FROM THE COUNCIL OF STATE OF CUBA: October 6 - Day of Victims of State Terrorism

• The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba has passed Decree-Law No. 279 which officially declares every October 6 as the "Day of Victims of State Terrorism." The policy of state terrorism, perpetrated against Cuba through actions that, in the majority of cases, have been, organized and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 18, 2010

  A late lesson for an old revolutionary

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]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 13, 2010

  The giant with the seven-league boots (Part 1)

Reflections of Fidel I learned of it through Aristotle, the most famous philosopher in the history of humankind. Human beings are capable of marvelous actions or the very worst injustices. Their astonishing intelligence is capable of using the unalterable laws of nature for good...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 14, 2010

  Yankis: Remember April

CUBA, VENEZUELA Nidia Díaz • HISTORY has its caprices which, as time passes, become symbols. On April 19, 1961, the Cubans defeated the mercenary invasion on the sandy beaches of Playa Giron. The Bay of Pigs invasion was been backed and paid for by the U.S. government, in an...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2009

  Cubans fear hard times ahead, impatient for change

By Marc Frank: HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cubans are bracing for hard times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts government spending to get Cuba out of crisis -- and they are growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform. Hurricanes, the global recession, US...... [view]

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