Like a bad penny, Guy Philippe’s name popped up in the news today. First reports suggested that he had been arrested by the DEA on drug charges yesterday in Haiti. Later today, it seems that he escaped the clutches of the feds and is nowhere to be found. The real truth [...]
REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
BUSH, HEALTH AND EDUCATION
by Fidel Castro
July 14, 2007
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2007/ing/f140707i.html
I will not refer to Bush’s health and education, but to that of his
neighbors. It was not an improvised declaration. The AP agency tells
us what his opening words were: “Tenemos corazones grandes en este
país” (We have big hearts in this country); he said [...]
Havana, 12 July (acn) Six international brigades in solidarity with
Cuba will carry out a number of activities during the months of July
and August on the island.
According to a communiqué launched by the Cuban Friendship Institute
(ICAP,) nearly 1,000 activists from 30 countries will visit the
island this summer.
The visitors are members of the Venceremos Brigade from the [...]
FROM THE JAMAICA GLEANER
published: Thursday | July 12, 2007
Martin Henry
On July 14, 1789, the commoners of Paris, rebelling against the oppression of royal power, stormed the Bastille, launching the French Revolution. This Saturday marks the 218th anniversary.
Shortly after the storming of the Bastille, feudalism was abolished on August 4, and on August 26, the Declaration [...]
Tomorrow, July 6, will be the second anniversary of a heinous crime committed by the UN against the poor citizens of one of Port-au-Prince’s most devastated neighborhoods, Cite Soleil. It is this kind of crime that makes the removal of the UN occupation of Haiti paramount. Below is an article I wrote [...]
The Washington Post
Editorial
Mr. Chávez’s Friends
The Venezuelan president bonds with regimes that the rest of the world –
and his own compatriots — shun.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A14
THE LATEST Global Attitudes survey by the Pew Foundation contains a lot of
bad news for the United States, but there was one relative bright spot in
Latin America: Venezuela. According to [...]
Cuba hits newly released CIA documents
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=542471
HAVANA 07/01- Communist Cuba`s parliament said Friday that a 47-year-old plot to assassinate Fidel Castro still reflects U.S. policy toward the island.
The National Assembly unanimously approved a resolution condemning CIA documents made public this week that described the agency`s attempt in 1960 to use mobsters and poison pills to kill [...]
As Grenada relives the assassination of Maurice Bishop during this week’s court hearing to re-examine the sentences of those responsible for his assassination, here is a speech that Bishop gave at Revolutionary Square in Havana on January 28, 1983. The occasion was the 130th celebration of Marti’s birth.
The Grenada Revolution Online
Bishop Speech
PRIME MINISTER BISHOP AT [...]
