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Been to Cuba Lately?

Mike Farrel integrates Actors and United Artists for Freedom of the cuban Five and has been one of the signatories of the letter of thanks to Jimmy Carter.

By: Mike Farrell, Huffington Post Hey, how you doing? What’s new? Been to Cuba lately? Oh, that’s right, you’re only a U.S. citizen; you can’t. You can’t. How stupid is that? I guess they worry you’ll catch communism or something. But you know what? Canadians and Europeans go there all the time without catching …

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Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up, Indeed!

Lawrence Wilkerson

By Lawrence Wilkerson Several  nights ago (6 April), I watched “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up” at the West End Cinema in Washington. Six months ago, Saul Landau, the filmmaker, had given me an earlier rough-cut version on DVD that I had watched, but I was not prepared for the final version with all

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Cubadebate opens its Web page in Russian language

cubadebate Russki

With versions of Fidel Castro’s Reflections, and news articles about various national and international themes, Cubadebate opens today its Web page in Russian language that you can find at: http://ru.cubadebate.cu/ This Web page joins to the series of blogs written in at least 8 languages that we have begun to publish, as the first step

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Cubadebate opens its Web page in Italian language

Cubadebate Italiano

With versions of Fidel Castro’s Reflections, and news articles about various national and international themes, Cubadebate opens today its Web page in Italian language that you can find at: http://it.cubadebate.cu/. This Web page joins to the series of blogs written in at least 8 languages that we have begun to publish, as the first step for the redesign of our Website, present on the Internet since August 5th, 2003.

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Interview with former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, by Arleen Rodríguez Derivet, Cuban Television journalist (+ Photos)

James Carter in Havana. Photo: Alex Castro

Translation: Machetera Translation: Machetera Arleen Rodríguez: Hello!  A greeting to all of those who are watching Cuban Television right now.   I welcome all of you, along with the former President of the United States, James Carter, who just moments before leaving to return to his country has graciously agreed to give us an interview, and

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Cubadebate opens its Web page in Portuguese language

Cubadebate Portugues

With versions of Fidel Castro’s Reflections, and news articles about various national and international themes, Cubadebate opens today its Web page in Portuguese language that you can find at: http://pt.cubadebate.cu/ This Web page joins to the English and French versions of Cubadebate, as part of a series of blogs written in at least 8 languages

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Obituary Leonard Weinglass: Another error against the Cuban Five

Leonard I. Weinglass

By Jane Franlin Dear Friends in my Cubalists, Len would be amused that I would interrupt my hiatus to bring attention to an error about the case of the five Cuban heroes in his New York Times obituary this morning, an error frequently made by the media and frequently corrected by Len. He would have wanted this

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For Lenny

Ricardo Alarcón

He’d suffered a terrible illness that since January had brought him to a critical and especially painful phase of his life, yet he never stopped working for even a moment. During the last months of his life, as he struggled heroically against illness and physical pain, he dedicated himself body and soul to the preparation and presentation of a Habeas Corpus appeal for Gerardo Hernández Nordelo and for Antonio Guerrero, without stopping to work on the appeals for the rest of the Five.

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Cubadebate opens its Web page in French language

Cubadebate Francaise

With versions of Fidel Castro’s Reflections, and news articles about various national and international themes, Cubadebate opens today its Web page in French language that you can find at: http://fr.cubadebate.cu. This Web page joins to the English version, as part of a series of blogs written in at least 8 languages that we have begun to publish as the first step for the redesign of our Website, present on the Internet since august 5th, 2003.

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Antonio's Letter

Cuban Five

Dear friends: Last night our attorney and beloved friend Leonard Weinglass died. The notice reached me this morning through various messages of friends and families. This is one of those occasions where there are no words to express the profound sorrow that one feels for the loss of such a beloved comrade in the struggle.