Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia: Clinical Death for OAS

BY NIDIA DIAZ—Special for Granma International—

• HISTORY is full of events that later prove to [...]

VENEZUELA: Wash Post’s Diehl Gets a Long-Deserved Dressing Down from Chavez’ Communications Minister

Below is a letter from Venezuela’s Communications Minister, Andres Izarra, to Jackson Diehl, an editor at the Washington Post. Diehl has been responsible for some of the most vicious disinformation about President Chavez produced by any newspaper in the US. Hats off to Minister Izarra!
See Related article: “Washington Post’s Obsession with [...]

“CUBA: Transition Without End”- An Indictment of Imperialism and A Tribute to the Cuban Revolution

It’s always a pleasure to find an article that features a tribute to the Cuban revolution. It’s equally pleasurable to find an article that showcases a scathing indictment of imperialism. The following article offers BOTH!
Cuba : Transitions without End
By Dr. Frederic Clairmont
Global Research, March 21, 2008
” The victory of the Revolution is [...]

VENEZUELA: Chronology of the Fourth Generation War Against Venezuela by Eva Golinger

Chronology of the 4th Generation War Against Venezuela
March 20th 2008, by Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution
The US Government is waging war on Venezuela - not your typical, traditional war, but a modern, asymmetric - 4th Generation War - against President Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution. Below is a presentation I created regarding the [...]

COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: This Time USA Cut Down to Size

It’s been a breathless couple of weeks since Uribe and his murderous Colombian army bombed a FARC camp inside Ecuador. When the Colombian soldiers arrived at the camp site, they finished off those wounded and lured others to surrender so they could be killed on sight.
So what came out of it all? Thanks [...]

CUBA: A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappers

Peter L. Fitzgerald, a law professor at Stetson University in Florida who has studied the blacklist — which the Treasury calls a list of “specially designated nationals” — said its operation was quite mysterious. “There really is no explanation or standard,” he said, “for why someone gets on the list.”

March 4, 2008
Sidebar
A Wave [...]

CUBA: Pres. Raul Castro Speech at the National Assembly of People’s Power, Havana

Viva Fidel! Viva Raul! Viva la revolucion!

Key address by Comrade Raul Castro Ruz, President of the State Council and the Council of Ministers, at the closing session of the First Session of the 7th legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power. Convention Center, Havana, February 24, 2008, “Year [...]

CUBA: Hail to Commander-in-Chief as Transition to “Comrade Fidel” Begins

As one would expect, Fidel’s resignation message reflects humility and great respect for the people of Cuba. Viva Fidel!
Message from the Commander in Chief
Dear compatriots:
Last Friday, February 15, I promised you that in my next reflection I would deal with an issue of interest to many compatriots. Thus, this now is rather a message.
The [...]

Cuba Meets Africa Music-Dance Break (video): AFRICANDO!

Time for a serious music-dance break this evening. If you have never heard of the West African group, Africando, I hope you will check out the two videos I have posted below. With Cuban music as its base (and yes, the roots of Cuban music are based in Africa) and melodies sung variously [...]

CUBA: FIDEL responds to Bush State of Union Address - “The Antithesis of Ethics”

REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
“THE ANTITHESIS OF ETHICS”
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2008/ing/f290108i.html
On the day when hundreds of intellectuals coming from every continent are
meeting in Havana to take part in an International Conference for World
Equilibrium on the date of José Marti’s birth, on that same day, by some
strange quirk, the President of the United States spoke. In his last [...]