Wednesday, September 26 at the UN General Assembly
CUBA – Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, got his chance yesterday to whack President Bush for his highly inappropriate comments about Fidel Castro which caused the Cuban delegation to walk out on Bush. Before Roque responded to Bush, he spoke on behalf of the non-aligned nations, which [...]
Statement by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque at the 62nd
Session of the UN General Assembly, September 26th, 2007, New York
Mr. President:
Never before had the real dangers menacing the human species become
so evident; never before had the violations of International Law become so
evident, as they increasingly jeopardize international peace and security;
never before had inequality and [...]
A quick snapshot of yesterdays speeches/activities:
BRAZIL – President Lula started off the head of state speeches. I was most interested in Lula’s comments abut the make-up of the UN Security Council and the need to add more developing countries. It is no secret that Brazil has sought to become a permanent member of [...]
Thanks to Joe Emersberger, we have an article that calls COHA on the carpet for its recent, disgraceful “analysis” on Haiti. Yesterday, I wrote a post condemning COHA for this reason as well.
Not only does Emersberger’s article set the record straight on the latest COHA article about Haiti -”Report Card,” [...]
Long before Bretton Woods and the establishment of the IMF and World Bank, the US and France besieged Haiti with schemes involving extortion and outright theft of Haitian government funds leaving Haiti in perpetual debt.
Paying for Winning the Revolution
Approximately 21 years after Haiti trounced General Bonaparte’s army in the Revolution, France proved that [...]
The analysis put forth in more recent articles by COHA is lacking when it comes to Haiti. Increasingly, its articles lack context and, in many instances, do little more than extend US government and UN press releases about what is happening there. With the US as the author of the coup [...]
I had the opportunity to preview the soon to be released film, “The Trial” about the case of the Cuban Five. My review of the film follows.
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“THE TRIAL” - a documentary by Rolando Almirante
The film opens with a remarkable account of four terrorist bombings in tourist hotels and a restaurant on September 4, [...]
A newly-formed coalition, the DC Metro Free the Cuban Five Committee, will hold a press conference and rally on Wednesday, September 12, 2007, to announce a month-long campaign to free the Cuban Five. For over forty years, Miami-based, right-wing groups have planned and committed terrorist acts against Cuba; yet, the US refuses to [...]
Ricardo Alarcon, former Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations and present head of the Cuban National Assembly, talks about how we can help free the Cuban 5. September 12 will be the ninth anniversary of their arrest.
Alarcon Says American People Could Help Release the Five
Havana, Sept 5 (acn) The head of the [...]
