Entries from May 2009

May 31, 2009

GRENADA: “Welcome to Maurice Bishop International Airport”

GRENADA HERALD
Sunday, MAY 31, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/kmxynz
Welcome to the Maurice Bishop International Airport
The sign says it all: Welcome to Maurice Bishop International
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says the decision to rename the Point Salines International airport after the slain Grenadian Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was a symbolic [...]

May 29, 2009

Organization of American States (OAS): Its Shameful History (Part III and Final)

ALL THREE PARTS OF THIS ARTICLE HAVE BEEN CONSOLIDATED ON ONE PAGE ON THIS SITE AND CAN BE FOUND AT:
http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/the-oas-its-shameful-history-parts-i-ii-and-iii/
GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana, May 29, 2009
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/mayo/vier29/OAS.html
“The shameful history of the OAS (III and Final)

• End of the ministry of colonies of the USA
(Fulfilling the demands of the people, Fidel rips up the shameful Declaration of San José. [...]

May 27, 2009

The Organization of American States (OAS): Its Shameful History – Part 2

GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. May 27, 2009
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/mayo/mier27/22vhoea2-i…
The shameful history of the OAS (II)
• The OAS against Cuba • Inter-American complicity in and legitimization of U.S. aggression against the Cuban people • Raúl Roa’s battle for dignity
ON March 18, 1959, just two and a half months after the popular victory of January 1st, Raúl Roa García, the new [...]

May 26, 2009

IN HAITI, ARISTIDE LIVES

LIBERTE
26 May 2009

IN HAITI ARISTIDE LIVES!

by Charlie Hinton
http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=315
Four elections prove it.
In 1990 and 2000, overwhelming majorities elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide president, but military coups overthrew him both times.
In 2004, the U.S., France, and Canada led an occupation force that kidnapped and exiled him from the Americas. A United Nations military occupation force followed, led by [...]

May 25, 2009

FIDEL CASTRO ON HAITI: “Nothing Can Be Improvised in Haiti”

There has been much discussion about Haiti in the press and the recent announcement by UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon that former President Bill Clinton will be his special envoy to Haiti.  John Maxwell, columnist for the Jamaica Observer, provided a searing indictment of the US’ entire policy towards Haiti, including the decision to send Clinton [...]

May 25, 2009

HAITI: Bill Clinton, Haiti’s Great White Hope? by John Maxwell

“Haiti’s Great White Hope?
COMMON SENSE
JOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, May 24, 2009
History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet.
JOHN MAXWELL
The deepest pits, though, the most purulent sinks, are reserved for those who [...]

May 22, 2009

Organization of American States: Its Shameful History – Part 1

Discussions at the recent Summit of the Americas meeting in Trinidad and Tobago regarding the Organization of American States showed that the organization is not a useful mechanism for real “American” cooperation.  The following article, which appeared in the May 22nd edition of Cuba’s state newspaper, Granma International, demonstrates how the US-manipulated organization has been [...]

May 21, 2009

CUBA Pays Tribute to National Hero, Jose Marti

The author of this article, Armando Hart Davalos, was a member of the urban youth movement in Havana before the Revolution where he studied law at the University.  Soon, Hart joined with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and, while they fought against Batista from the countryside, Hart was one of the primary leaders in the [...]

May 16, 2009

CUBA (video): May 17, 1959 – 50 Years of Agrarian Reform

The following video shows campesinos lining up by the hundreds in 1959 to get their first piece of the land pie as a result of the signing of Cuba’s Agrarian Reform Law.  Also included in the video is a speech given by Fidel in which he announces the foreign businesses and properties that Cuba has [...]

May 11, 2009

VENEZUELA: The Miami Herald – Still Doing the White Man’s Bidding

There is a certain ebb and flow to defamatory journalism, but it does seem to coincide with US policy shifts.  And by this measuring stick, President Hugo Chavez once again must be front and center at the State Dept., Defense Dept. and the White House.   The Miami Herald published a story about Chavez entitled, “Hugo [...]