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“Homeland or Death” resounds honoring Cuba’s independence struggle

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On the 126th anniversary of the re-launching of Cuba’s war of independence, flowers from Raúl and Díaz-Canel were placed alongside the tomb where the remains of Cuba’s national hero rest

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Lenin

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On the one hand, what he calls the possessing classes who aspired to remove the Czar and replace him with a bourgeois power, in the style of the Western democracies of the United States and France; on the other, the Bolsheviks, who saw the Revolution as based on the class struggle and insisted on the necessity of the Soviets taking power. Between these two forces, which he describes as extreme, John places the “moderate” socialists, the quotation marks are his, not mine.

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Simply, Celia

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It is hard not to remember, today, on the 41st anniversary of her death, the young woman who organized life-saving support for the Granma expeditionaries; who became the first to wear olive green in the Sierra; and left her imprint on so much of the Revolution’s work
Our national flag at half mast, a gray Friday and rain in the capital, were the prelude to the terrible news that no one wanted to hear on that January 11, 1980.

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The caravan is a symbol of Cuba’s conquest of freedom

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This January 8, the Cuban people will again experience the euphoria, genuine gratitude and love for those who, with Fidel as the undisputed leader of the Revolution in the lead, reaffirmed the promise of a free Homeland and travelled across the island proclaiming hope for a more just Cuba in 1959. Today Fidel enters Havana in a caravan of young people who revere the history of a consummated victory. Yesterday, the town of Madruga, in the province of Mayabeque.

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The world recalls Fidel

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Leaders, figures and organizations worldwide recalled the legacy of the Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, on the fourth anniversary of his physical disappearance, November 25. Cuba’s President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez paid tribute to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution on his Twitter, writing: “Fidel: How do I greet you? Every day we strive to follow in your footsteps”.

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Cuba is well, Camilo!

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There is a man of the people that the homeland will never let die, because he left an eternal footprint everywhere he went. A man who lives on in his example. He won the affection of a nation with his personal sacrifice, simplicity, his smile, and impeccable character forged in the Sierra and during a few months of Revolution following the victory.

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Good health to art!

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President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez tweeted his congratulations “to our young artists and creators” in the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS), which this October 18 celebrated its 34 years of healthy existence. Deputy Prime Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda likewise welcomed the anniversary of “the Association of the intellectual and artistic vanguard… the standard bearer and guide of young art,” and “a key part of the cultural life of our country.”

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Che is here, alive

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Che himself affirms, “The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love,” leaving us another creed to steer us along the road of just causes.
These are times to live this love, turn it into action, into an example, struggle… not a slogan, or a cold image sculpted in bronze, but rather the common man, the everyday person who, without asking a single question, marches off to save lives, unaware that he or she is a hero.

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CDRs: The largest Cuban mass organization celebrates its 60th anniversary

Gerardo Comité

Radio Habana Cuba, September 28, 2020- The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs), the largest mass organization in Cuba, is celebrating with its members sheltering from home the 60th anniversary of its founding by the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro. The CDR’s national coordinator, Gerardo Hernández, told national media outlets the decoration of houses and streets, and the presentation of medals, distinctions, and awards, will follow the measures to control the spread of the Covid-19.

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Benedetti, compañero and friend

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No, one, except perhaps a few infected with the virus of envy and mediocrity, question the poetic stature, the narrative depth (La tregua, Montevideanos and Gracias por el fuego, among other titles) or the brilliance of the essays of Mario Benedetti, the writer from Uruguay, or better, Our America, whose life we celebrated September 14.