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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 18, 2011

  THIS IS CUBA: Socialism and human rights

By ENRIQUE UBIETA GÓMEZ:       SOME days ago, I wrote in my blog about a simple and moving personal experience. It was around 6.00 p.m. In my usual rush, I crossed the far corner of Havana’s Capitol building, facing the remains of the...... [view]

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:  Oct 4, 2011

  US-Cuba policy staggers from the inept to the pedestrian

by Larry Birns, COHA Director, and Faizaan Sami, COHA Research Associate Matters could not be more misspent when it comes to US-Latin American relations than they have been when US-Mexico policy has been in focus. This seems to be particularly the case as of now when it was...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 18, 2011

  Venezuelan Government says U.S. “Classifies Some Terrorists as Good and Others as Bad”

By Tamara Pearson :   Mérida, May 17th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela will continue demanding that the United States extradite Luis Posada Carriles, wanted for terrorism, after he was found “not guilty” in a trial in the U.S. on other...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 12, 2011

  Mafia justice: Posada acquitted on all charges

By Jean-Guy Allard:   ON April 9, a jury in the nation which has afforded itself the right to draw up a list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism, found international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles innocent of 11 charges of perjury, fraud and obstruction. The El...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 10, 2010

  Uncle Sam's double standard: From Cubana tragedy to 5 Cuban prisoners in USA

By Rickey Singh LAST Wednesday's 34th anniversary of the bombing by "anti-Castro" terrorists of a Cubana passenger aircraft off Barbados that killed all 73 people onboard, also coincided with the launch of an appeal by Caribbean citizens for the release of five Cuban political prisoners...... [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 14, 2010

  The giant with the seven-league boots (Part 2)

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) ON March 12, 2004, we learned from INTERPOL that a citizen of Argentine origin, naturalized in Mexico, was wanted in a case of illicit operations. The relevant investigations confirmed that he had entered the country on February 27...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 20, 2010

  Poll shows Americans want better ties with Cuba

WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters) -- A majority of Americans believe the United States should improve its long-strained relationship with Cuba and reestablish diplomatic and business ties, an opinion poll showed on Monday. A Cuba Business Bureau/Insider Advantage poll of 401 people showed that 58...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 12, 2010

  Cuba leaders 'do not want' normal ties with US, says Clinton

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]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 18, 2010

  Amnesty International says Cuba needs reform

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Amnesty International said Cuba "desperately" needs political and legal reform and called for the communist country to release all political prisoners. The London-based rights group criticized the Cuban government for putting its opponents behind bars for years for...... [view]

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