If you are in the mood to submerge yourself in someone else’s hissy fit, check out this week’s Washington Post editorial on Hugo Chavez, Ally to Kidnappers: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez endorses Colombian groups known for abductions, drug trafficking and mass murder. The subtitle gives you the basic thrust and makes it easy to [...]
Luis Posada Carriles has been a CIA asset for years and, by his own admission, has committed terrorists acts against the people of Cuba, yet he walks freely on the streets of Miami. One of his worst terrorist acts was the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner in which 73 died.
Code Pink has courageously [...]
GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. December 4, 2007
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/diciembre/mar4/mensage.html
Fidel’s messages to Chávez
Dear Hugo:
I send you revolutionary congratulations on your speech early today.
It was an ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ of dignity and ethics.
Fidel Castro Ruz
December 3, 2007
10:00 a.m.
Dear Hugo:
I try to be as succinct as possible in my reflections. [...]
“The most sophisticated media developed by technology, employed to kill human beings and to subjugate or exterminate peoples; the massive sowing of conditioned reflexes of the mind; consumerism and all available resources; these are being used today against the Venezuelans, with the intent of ripping the ideas of Bolivar and Martí to shreds.” –Fidel Castro [...]
“I DARE SAY THAT HAD THIS CRIME BEEN COMMITTED MORE RECENTLY AND IF POSADA’S FIRST NAME WAS MOHAMMED RATHER THAN LUIS, THIS EVIDENCE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN SUFFICIENT TO GET HIM RENDERED TO GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA.” — from testimony by Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archives
Thanks to Walter Lippmann at CubaNews, we have a transcript [...]
I have been previewing several videos featuring Che Guevara and for one reason or another have rejected most for use in my blog series leading up to the 40th anniversary of his death, October 9. Many of the “professionally” produced videos repeat old lies about Che, his intentions, and his relationship with Fidel. [...]
Recently, presidential candidates debated whether it is wise to talk to world leaders such as Fidel Castro, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, etc., whom the US government refers to variously as “dictators, tyrants,” etc. Watching the candidates challenge one another on what the process for engagement should be, I wondered what an actual meeting might be [...]
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 [...]
