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- Cubadebate opens its new Web page in English| 20
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- El Paso Diary: The Battle Over the Solo Fax| 10
- President Hugo Chavez's address to the People of Venezuela| 10
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Series
- Cuba's Reasons
- Cuban Five
- El Paso Diary
The El Paso Diary is written by José Pertierra--an attorney who represents the government of Venezuela in its request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles. Pertierra´s journals describe the testimony, evidence, legal skirmishes, quirks and follies of this very historic trial that features for the first time the close collaboration of the United States government with Cuban authorities to prosecute an ex CIA agent who is one of the masterminds of the fifty-year old dirty war against Cuba.
Authors
- Bernie Dwyer
- Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
- Deisy Francis Mexidor
- Fidel Castro Ruz
- José Pertierra
- Raúl Castro Ruz
- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
- Amy Goodman
- Arleen Rodríguez Derivet
- Frei Betto
- Hugo Chávez Frías
- Josh R. Nelson
- Juan Gelman
- Luis Rumbaut
- Michael Moore
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Noam Chomsky
- Reinaldo Taladrid Herrero
- Richard Gott
- Tom Hayden
Articles of United States
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Remembering Ramsey Clark
The news of his death did not come as a surprise since it was known that his health was declining and he was also affected by irreparable family losses. But the death of Ramsey Clark is a source of pain and suffering for many in many parts of the world. His trajectory since the 1960s was one of admirable personal integrity and fidelity to the principles that made him one of the most respected personalities of the American progressive movement.
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Cuba’s prestige in human rights invalidates accusations
President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez defined as disgraceful, immoral and false the recent accusations made by the U.S. State Department against Cuba, in an open attempt to manipulate the human rights issue, while Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla tweeted his condemnation of the report issued March 30, which contains totally unfounded.
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Another weapon in the cultural war against Cuba
CIA efforts to create publishing houses and literary magazines to attract Cuban writers was intended to separate them from the country’s institutions and steer them toward an anti-government stance. Most of the CIA’s covert operations in Latin America during the 1960s were directed against the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro. “No more Cubas”, was the agency’s slogan at the time.
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New US Government and old blockade against Cuba
President Joe Biden is taking his first steps in office, while Cuba is still under the harmful effects of a long-standing blockade. It is stated in a report that Cuba will submit in May to the United Nations General Assembly about the impact of the economic, financial and commercial blockade in force over the last six decades. It will be another exercise at the General Assembly against a practice that has been rejected repeatedly by the international community.
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Cuba does not forget
In memory of the hundreds killed, injured and orphaned by the explosion of a French steamship on March 4, 1960, yesterday morning Party and Havana government authorities gathered at the La Coubre Docks to honor the victims. On March 4, 1961, during the commemoration of the first anniversary of the sabotage of the French steamship La Coubre, Comandante en jefe Fidel Castro Ruz stated: “When the ship La Coubre exploded, leaving that Dantesque toll of workers and soldiers torn apart by the criminal sabotage, our enemies were warning us of the price they would demand of us.
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The blockade of Cuba does not express the will of the U.S. people
Evidence abounds that the hostile blockade policy imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, almost immediately after the triumph of the Revolution, does not reflect the sentiment or will of the majority of the population in that country. This was has been confirmed by local authorities in almost twenty U.S. cities. The most recent call for the normalization of relations between the two nations took place when the Chicago City Council voted unanimously to approve a resolution calling on the U.S. government to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade on Cuba.
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Attempted robbery
Anti-Cuban mercenaries make the mistake of believing that Martí has become nothing more than a statue, an appropriate figure to include in their farces, but he has long since come down from pedestals and walks among his people. Just as he is, in his authentic dimensions, José Martí is of no use to their cause. This would require suppressing a good many texts, no longer publishing them.
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Singing for the homeland, not against it
From “La Bayamesa,” by Céspedes, Castillo and Fornaris, written in 1851, to “Me dicen Cuba,” in which Alexander Abreu inserts the notes of the Bayamo anthem in his boisterous son, the homeland has been sung one, ten, a thousand times, in its purest, deepest essences. Because a people with music in its soul expresses its sense of belonging in the art form that best represents it.
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Dialogue or the business of posturing and prattle?
It turns out that “dialogue” is the latest banner raised by the counterrevolution in Cuba which, under the name of a Plebeian Articulation, despite its lack of support on the streets, is moving to the Internet to maintain the business of discrediting Cuban institutions, under the guise of a “panel discussion.” Time passes quickly, especially in the ephemeral world of digital social networks.
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Our only choice will always be homeland or death
“Because Cubans have acquired real meaning in life, which begins with considering it undignified if not lived in freedom, when one does not live with decorum, when one does not live with justice, when one does not live for something, and for something great as Cubans are living at this moment…. “And it is best to say so without boasting, as those who are truly determined to do what is promised.